African American athleticism has long been a major factor that shaped U.S sport culture. There major sports in which African American Athletes change the doctrine in which how they are performed. On such sport is boxing. Boxing in itself was a form of entertainment for the white men before and during the Guilded age of America. Yet, when American sports began a movement towards a more modernize and organized entity, boxing was more so, left behind. The popularization of this sport was not through main stream avenue, but from grit and it took a while for Americans to realize the importance of boxing, more so dabbled on the idea of racism. Through the eyes of the white Americans in the 1800’s and even beyond the abolishment of segregation,
