In an era of black heavyweight contenders having few chances at the World Heavyweight Championship, it might be one of the greatest injustices that Joe Jeanette was to never receive one. Alongside Jack Johnson he was surely one of the greatest black fighters of his day, yet he never received the acclaim so often heaped upon Johnson as the first ever black World Heavyweight champion. Just another hard luck chapter in Jeanette's hard luck life one would suppose.
