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Jack Johnson: I never doubted...

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I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.

Source: On the Burns-Johnson Fight, New York, 27 Dec 1908.
-- Jack Johnson, (Mar 31 1878-1946), US boxer; He defeated Tommy Burns to become the world's first black heavyweight champion, 1908; he was a powerful symbol of the independent black man.


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