Did Gun Boat Smith KO Jack Johnson in a 4 round exhibition match?

Just found this old thread ... interesting article, any idea confirming the date as Johnson is not referred to as champion ...

Gunboat Smith was basically a cruiserweight but a killer puncher ... Dempsey said the hardest he was ever hit in his life was by Smith ...

I am as big a fan of Johnson as just about anyone but will be the first to say he did not have an iron chin .. More like Lennox Lewis than an Ali ...

 

ketchel hit as hard if not harder than fitzimmons

 

Ellis dropped Ali in sparring with a right hand also. Can't remember if this happened more then once, but at the time it alarmed boxing scribes. I've always been abit amazed that Jeffries thought Johnson so fast. He seemed to have average speed to me for heavy's of the day, maybe a bit faster with his feet when he wanted too, but a little clumsy comeing forward quickly due to his weight being on his back foot. There will always be questions about Jack and he caused them by whom he wouldn't fight. I can't see Louis or Ali getting much through on him and I'm not sure what his subtle offense would do to them either.

 

Gunboat Smith couldn't carry Jack's jockstrap.

 

Prove the opposite.

 

An interesting fact - but nothing more than that.

Sparring and training stories are almost always exaggerated, and at any rate, they're not real fights. One of them may be going easy while the other decided to go in top gear.... this is boxing, those things can happen. Greg Page dropped Tyson in '89 (it is on film), but that doesn't change my opinion about Tyson the slightest bit.

 

OK, how many top heavyweight contenders and heavyweight champions did Ketchel KO ?