20K views · 350 reactions | On This Day in 1940...  The original Mayweather-McGregor. Former World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey returned from an eight year retirement to face professional wrestler Cowboy Luttrell in Atlanta, Georgia. After a heavily hyped build-up, the 45-year-old Dempsey pummelled Luttrell in two heavily one-sided rounds - knocking him down four times and, finally, through the ropes to win by knockout. Only in boxing... #Boxing | Boxing Social | Facebook

Long before they became legends 🎞 | Top Rank Boxing

On Boxing Day 1908, at Rushcutters Bay in Sydney, Australia, the world witnessed history being made when Jack Johnson became the first black Heavyweight World Champion after defeating Tommy Burns, the reigning white champion. The fight was two years in the making, with Johnson pursuing Burns around the world in vain for the chance to fight him, as Heavyweight Boxing Champions drew the “colour line” in their refusal to fight African American boxers. It was only through the intervention of colourf