Joe Jeannette.

Joe Jeannette fought as a Heavyweight from 1904 till 1922 and just like other fighters I've mentioned before, I believe he is one of the finest Heavyweights to ever live. Having epic multiple fights runs against the greats of his time, a resume stacked with names and the reasons I will list below is enough for me to rate him in my top 10 Heavyweight list, gonna share my opinion and some information about Jeannette.

Professional record: 119-25-20 (including newspaper decisions)

2 Time Colored Heavyweight Champion

Fought 5 Hall of Famers

32 Fights against Hall of Famers

Beat 4 Hall of Famers

Beat 3 Champions

16 Fights for the World Colored Heavyweight Title

Joe Jeannette was also a very tough fighter and one of the most durable Heavyweights to ever live, only losing twice by KO in his 25 losses. For example, once he fought against Sam Mcvea for 49 rounds and went down multiple times but he never gave up and always got up, in the end, he KO'd Mcvea. Also, his fight runs against other greats of his time are impressive fighting Sam Langford 15 times, Harry Wills 3 times, Sam Macvea 5 times, Jeff Clark 5 times, Jack Johnson 7 times.

I also wanna note that he had amazing power and a lot of people don't recognize that. Just like the boxing librarian always points out Jeannette had more KO's than Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey. One more thing to point out is that he fought Jack Johnson 4 times inside his first 20 bouts almost winning one of them but for some unknown reason he got DQ'd, it's said that Jeannette dominated the fight. 

Sadly he was never able to fight Johnson again after he won the World Heavyweight Title against Tommy Burns in 1908 since Johnson did not want to take the risk of losing the title. I wish Johnson fought an experienced prime Jeannette a few times to see what would have happened.

Final thoughts: He might have not beat a lot of champions multiple times and he also lost to Langford a lot but, you have to consider that Langford might as well be the greatest Heavyweight to ever live (at least in my opinion). Also when he lost to Harry Wills in 1919 Wills did not fight the strong, accurate Jeannette he fought a 40-year-old man. Stacked resume with a lot of great names a fighter that needs his respect and definitely in my top 10 Heavyweights of all time.

Also regarding this blog, now that I've done a post about every member of the golden 4 (Mcvea, Langford, Johnson, Jeannette) I would like to know what you guys would like to see next.

1879-1958