Jim Jeffries

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

his record

 

his signature

 

 
 


Born: James Jackson Jeffries
Heavyweight Champion 1899-1905
One of the finest heavyweights in history, James J. Jeffries retired undefeated but, six years later was coaxed into an ill-fated comeback fight with Jack Johnson. Jeffries moved with his family from Ohio to a Los Angeles-area farm at the age of seven. As a youth, he was a great athlete who distinguished himself in boxing, wrestling, and track. While working as a boilermaker and for a meat packing company, among other jobs, Jeffries boxed at the East Side Athletic Club. In his first professional fight , he knocked out Hank Griffin in the fourteenth round. Nineteen at the time, Jeffries waited until he was 21 to box professionally fulltime, honoring a promise to his parents.
The Boxing Register
 

 
 
 
 

vintage photos

Jim Jeffries Calif. 1910

James J. Jeffries Culver Service Photo


 

signatures

James J. Jeffries "The Beast"

Jim Jeffries training with the medicine ball


 

signatures

Jim Jeffries, Roosevelt and Rockefeller postcard


 

signatures

Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries 7-4-1910
 

 

the museum

vintage photos: James J. Jeffries (1899)

pinbacks, medals, etc.: Jim Jeffries pinback

 

a recently published book
Jim Jeffries
A Man Among Men


 

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