Gigantic

I've lamented in the past that the boxing analogues to my style of jiu jitsu are guys like George Foreman and Sonny Liston. Tough guys and worthy champions. But not exactly the metaphors I was looking for.

Maybe, though, this combination of size and deliberateness ...

Jack Johnson, The Galveston Giant...“Master of Ring Science”

Fleischer, as noted, rated Johnson # 1 on his all time great heavyweight list. Charley Rose rated him # 2. In McCallum’s 1975 “survey of old-timers” Johnson was rated # 2. Other historians who rate him highly are John Durant who considered Johnson the # 2 heavyweight of all time, Steve Farhood rated him # 3 in 1997, while Tracy Callis rates him # 2. Cox’s Corner considers Jack Johnson the # 3 heavyweight of all time.