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Jack Johnson is definitely a good choice.

I like to think of the differences between Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali. What's funny is Al Sharpton is on the Ali documentary about how Ali was robbed of his three years in his prime, but he isn't anywhere to be seen on the Louis documentary. Haha. What a useless piece of trash.
AMEN! Joe Louis willingly sacrificed his prime years to help the war effort and what thanks did he get? A POS like Sharpton not knowing anything about him!

When you say "Old Time" I think of the fighters like John L. Sullivan, Harry Greb, Battling Siki, Young Griffo, Kid Chocolate, Jim Jeffries, James J. Corbett, Stanley Ketchel, Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, etc etc. Loads of great nicknames back then and loads of great tales like the Sullivan-Kilrain fight where it was scorching hot and the men went toe to toe The Great John L swigging whiskey between rounds.
Sullivan is the stuff legends are made of. He went 75 rounds with Kilraine when he could have easily finished him inside of ten. He did it to show everybody that he wasn't a short winded Nancy. Sullivan is a boss.