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2020-10-22T02:24:51.622Z

Sala Beckett becomes a ring with the premiere of a play about black boxing champion Jack Johnson and his stay in Barcelona

Armando Buika (left) and Alex Brendemühl as boxers Johnson and Jeffries.

American Jack Johnson,

the Galveston giant

, son of freed slaves from North Carolina (his father was a soldier in the Civil War), is one of the great boxers in history.

He was the first black heavyweight world champion after defeating Tommy Burns in 1908 (the first white to agree to fight a black man) and had to face the racial hatred of a segregationist society that could not bear his success ...

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