The Burns-Johnson Fight
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The Burns-Johnson Fight

Sydney Stadium, Boxing Day, 1906

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eBook - ePub

The Burns-Johnson Fight

Sydney Stadium, Boxing Day, 1906

About this book

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.

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Information

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

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Tommy Burns - Heavyweight Champion of the World
  7. Jack Johnson - the Coloured Champion
  8. Training Days
  9. Portraits of Tommy Burns by Charles Kerry
  10. Jack Johnson in Sydney 1908
  11. Norman Lindsay and The Lone Hand
  12. Tommy Burns at Medlow Bath
  13. The Souvenir Program and tickets
  14. Sporting Notions
  15. Views of the Stadium -
  16. Jack London on the Fight
  17. Boxing Championship - The Argus
  18. Johnson and Burns Interviewed
  19. Larry Foley Interviewed
  20. The Burns-Johnson Fight - The Film
  21. An American perspective
  22. Burns on Johnson
  23. Johnson on Burns