Got this card in this week that pairs well with the Corbett. Jackson and Corbett were boxing instructors at different boxing clubs in San Francisco. In 1891 the rival instructors fought a 61 round bout without a decision when neither fighter was able to continue for the 62nd round. Sounds like it was one heck of a battle
Jackson was a great fighter, maybe the best heavyweight of the lineal era to never hold the world championship, but he lived an interesting life too. The story I have always heard is that he got into boxing while working as a deckhand in his teens, when he single handedly quelled a mutiny with his fists. Probably exaggerated, but there are numerous primary accounts of odd and colorful incidents surrounding him.
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