17 Facts About World Heavyweight Champion

1. World Heavyweight Champion married his fourth wife, Yolanda, in 1986.

2. World Heavyweight Champion met with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1990 to negotiate the release of American hostages, and in 2002 he traveled to Afghanistan as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

3. World Heavyweight Champion dated white women, drove lavish cars and spent money freely.

4. World Heavyweight Champion died in an automobile accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1946.

5. World Heavyweight Champion surrendered to federal agents at the Mexican border and was sent to the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth to serve his sentence in September 1920.

6. World Heavyweight Champion's embraced him as "he raised his hand in worship".

7. World Heavyweight Champion fought professionally until 1938 at age 60 when he lost 7 of his last 9 bouts, losing his final fight to Walter Price by a 7th-round TKO.

8. World Heavyweight Champion denied matches to black heavyweights Joe Jeanette, Sam Langford (who beat Jeanette for the colored title), and the young Harry Wills, who was colored heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's reign as world's heavyweight champ.

9. World Heavyweight Champion is one of the craftiest, cunningest boxers that ever stepped into the ring.

10. World Heavyweight Champion beat Langford on points in a 15-rounder and never gave him another shot at the title, either when he was colored champ or the world heavyweight champ.

11. World Heavyweight Champion still made pretence to being the black champ and claimed the unrecognized black heavyweight title as well.

12. World Heavyweight Champion would then quickly strike back with a blow of his own.

13. World Heavyweight Champion often fought to punish his opponents through the rounds rather than knocking them out, and would continuously dodge their punches.

14. World Heavyweight Champion made several other attempts at working other jobs around town until one day he made his way to Dallas, finding work at the race track exercising horses.

15. World Heavyweight Champion never lost his belts in the ring and he has just boxed Wilder, an unbeaten champion with an unbelievable knockout record and he did it in his backyard.

16. World Heavyweight Champion has the edge on the rematch because he got up from that punch [which floored Fury in the 12th round].

17. World Heavyweight Champion's got to be compared with his own fellows.