Those who know anything about professional boxing will know of the big fight at Sydney's Rushcutter Bay <br />Between Tommy Burns the Canadian world heavyweight champion <br />and the Challenger Jack Johnson of the U.S.A. <br />On December the twenty sixth in the Australian summer a few months short of ninety five years ago <br />Jack Johnson toyed with and humiliated the smaller Burns as anyone who know of boxing history know. <br /> <br />Jack Johnson was a victim of discrimination and his only crime he was not born white <br />Born on march the thirty first in 1878 in Galveston in Texas and at a young age he was taught how to fight <br />The first black heavyweight champion of the World one well might say that he came up the hard way <br />The mighty man in his time was a legend and he remains a legend to this day. <br /> <br />On June the tenth 1946 Johnson died in a car crash but the legend of the great man still lives on <br />And the fame of the 'Galveston Giant' still living though many great boxers since have come and gone <br />Nat Fleischer boxing's greatest ever analyst so many great fighters he could recall <br />In his old age said of all the great fighters he could remember Jack Johnson was the greatest of them all. <br /> <br />Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion and his legend is alive and well today <br />He won the title by outclassing Tommy Burns in Sydney in New <br />South Wales at Rushcutter Bay <br />And he finally lost his crown to Jess Willard in Havana Cuba <br />when he was many years beyond his prime <br />And he perhaps is still the greatest champion and was definitely the greatest of his time.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jack-johnson/
