It took 3,980 days. But finally, on February 26, 1926, the powers that be in boxing granted another black fighter a chance to challenge for a world title.

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A new documentary by film collector Carl Weingarten corrects decades of misinformation about the historic 1908 Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns heavyweight title fight film.

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Most sporting events you had to read about in the paper. At least until radio broadcast. These were some of the very first sports ever radio broadcast.

Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, the Long Count, million-dollar gates, and how the 1920s transformed prizefighting into America's biggest sport.