Jack Johnson Underdogs Story

As Americans, we hold sports a little bit closer to our hearts than we probably should. The major television broadcasts we watch are primarily sports. Football, baseball, basketball, mixed martial arts, and a few others are the ones that captivate our minds. Each has its ups and downs and each can be remembered by an underdog story. We all know what this is; the heavily favored loser rises to the top to take down the seemingly unbeatable champion. For example, when Boise State football beat Oklahoma a few years ago in an astounding upset, when Muhammad Ali rose to be the best boxer of all time, or perhaps when Michael Jordan (the greatest basketball player of all time) didn’t make the high school varsity team. But there is one story out there that seems to have been forgotten, the story of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. There are several reasons why we, as Americans, need to know the story of Jack Johnson. First, he was the first great boxing underdog. If there are people out there that like underdog stories, this is one they should know. It is perhaps, the greatest one of all time. Not only did Jack Johnson overcome all his opponents on his way to the top, he overcame the racial prejudice that …show more content…
He wore nice clothes, drove nice cars, mingled with nice looking women, bought nice things, and did many other things of the like. He was confident and backed up everything he said in the ring. Guys like Deon Sanders and Richard Sherman probably know about Jack Johnson. He knew that he was the best and he relished in it, enjoyed all of it. He lived a lifestyle that angered most of the white Americans that were very racist. He acted as they believed a colored man shouldn’t and he didn’t car. He drove quickly everywhere and got ticketed for it, but he didn’t care because at one point in time he was bringing in $1,500 every single night. He lived like no black man had before