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John Johnson

125 KOs
172 KOs
5Draws
No contest: 1
Last six: L-W-W-D-L-W
Career
division
Lightweight
status
inactive
bouts
35
rounds
182
KO %
41.7%
KO wins
5
KO losses
2
career
1893–1916
debut
1893-02-23
last fight
1916-06-09
Profile
sex
M
nationality
United States
origin
United States
city / state / zip
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
dob
0000-00-00

Latest news

International Boxing Association Relaunched by JC Courreges
2017-08-22 · http://fightnetwork.com/ (registration)
Courreges has an extensive, invaluable background in boxing as a promoter and manger. He promoted Hall-of-Famer Roberto Duran, as well as former world champions Trevor Berbick, John Mugabi, Frankie Randall, John David Jackson, Tom Johnson and 
Floyd Mayweather holds boxing, Las Vegas and the world's gaze in his fists
2014-04-28 · The Guardian (blog)
Going back through the giants in the lineage of the heavyweights, the true kings of boxing, that has never happened before, not with Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, the Jacks ? Dempsey and Johnson ? nor the loudmouth bare-knuckle bully John 
US senators back Tyson pardon bid for boxing champ Johnson
2013-04-05 · Reuters India
Democratic leader Harry Reid and Republican John McCain, longtime Johnson supporters, joined fellow boxing champions Lennox Lewis and Laila Ali, the daughter of retired boxing legend Muhammad Ali, in backing Tyson's petition on grassroots campaign
Cowan joins effort to pardon boxing great Jack Johnson
2013-03-05 · Boston Globe
WASHINGTON ? He was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, nicknamed the ?Galveston Giant? after his hometown in Texas. But even John Arthur ?Jack? Johnson could not fight against the racism of his time when in 1913, he was
Lawmakers Again Introduce Legislation to Pardon Boxing Legend
2013-03-05 · ABC News (blog)
A number of legislators, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.,reintroduced legislation this week to posthumously pardon boxing legend Jack Johnson, who was convicted 100 years ago of transporting a woman across state lines

Fight history

date
w-l-d
last 6
result
2 10 5
W-NWS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Event →
1 10 5
L-TKO
Broadway A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
4 of 6
Referee: Herman Taylor
Event →
1 10 4
D-NWS
Broadway A.C., Brooklyn, New York, United States
Event →
0 0 0
W-NWS
South End A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
0 0 0
W-KO
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
3 of 6
Event →
0 2 3
L-NWS
Industrial A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
16 8 6
L-NWS
Knickerbocker A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
0 0 0
W-TKO
Broadway A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
4 of 6
Event →
7 6 4
W-NWS
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
19 10 21
L-NWS
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
17 10 20
L-NWS
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
0 0 1
L-NWS
Broadway A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Event →
12 10 20
L-NWS
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
8 9 16
D-NWS
Central A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
6 0 1
L-NWS
Industrial Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
6 3 4
L-PTS
National A.C., Brooklyn, New York, United States
15 of 15
Event →
2 1 1
L-KO
Broadway A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 of 6
Event →
10 6 13
W-NWS
Quaker City A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6
Event →
1 1 0
W-KO
Trenton A.C., Trenton, New Jersey, United States
1 of 20 · 2:43
Event →
16 4 3
W-NWS
Pennsylvania A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
10 5 13
W-NWS
Quaker City A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
0 1 0
W-DQ
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Event →
6 2 3
L-NWS
Trenton A.C., Trenton, New Jersey, United States
20 of 20
Event →
0 0 0
D-PTS
Fort Dearborn A.C., Chicago, Illinois, United States
6 of 6
Event →
3 2 1
L-PTS
Chicago A.C., Chicago, Illinois, United States
Event →
3 2 1
L-DQ
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
11
Event →
1 1 0
L-NWS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Event →
0 0 1
D-PTS
Broadway A.C., Brooklyn, New York, United States
10 of 10
Event →
8 5 2
D-PTS
New York, New York, United States
10
Event →
2 1 0
L-NWS
Nonpareil A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6 of 6
Event →
4 1 2
L-PTS
Unique Theater, Brooklyn, New York, United States
4 of 4
Event →
0 0 0
W-TKO
Highland Athletic Club, Back River, Maryland, United States
4 of 10
Referee: Frederick Sweigert
Event →
0 0 0
?-ND
Ariel A.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Event →
0 0 0
W-KO
Gloucester, New Jersey, United States
7
Event →
2 0 0
L-NWS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
3 of 3
Event →