The Burns-Johnson Fight

Sydney Stadium, Boxing Day, 1906

Tom Thompson

• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781923205536
• Print ISBN:
  9781923205529
• Edition: 0

Boxing Day lived up to its name in 1908 when Tommy Burns, the Heavyweight Champion of the World fought Jack Johnson the Coloured Champion of the World, at the Sydney Stadium, putting Australia on the international sporting map and changing boxing forever... Over time critics have moved to see that the events of Boxing Day 1908 in Sydney, when the acknowledged Champion of the World was defeated by the skills of a negro from Galveston, Texas, is the true Fight of the Century; a fight against racial discrimination in sport and in life. - From the IntroductionThis book draws together for the first time the major writings and images of the period November and December 1908, when Burns and Johnson trained and fought in Sydney, including rare photographs and ephemera drawn from the great boxing collections.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Tommy Burns - Heavyweight Champion of the World
• Jack Johnson - the Coloured Champion
• Training Days
• Portraits of Tommy Burns by Charles Kerry
• Jack Johnson in Sydney 1908
• Norman Lindsay and The Lone Hand
• Tommy Burns at Medlow Bath
• The Souvenir Program and tickets
• Sporting Notions
• Views of the Stadium -
• Jack London on the Fight
• Boxing Championship - The Argus
• Johnson and Burns Interviewed
• Larry Foley Interviewed
• The Burns-Johnson Fight - The Film
• An American perspective
• Burns on Johnson
• Johnson on Burns