Episode Details

After building a stadium and successfully staging a heavyweight title fight, Hugh D. Macintosh sets his sights on promoting the biggest heavyweight fight of all time between Tommy Burns, the reigning heavyweight champion and Jack Johnson. This would be the first time a black man had been allowed to fight for the heavyweight title.

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