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The Mayweather Boxing Club talks the Jack Johnson pardon

By Jody Kohn

Recently President Donald Trump pardoned former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson posthumously for a “crime” he was convicted of more than 100 years ago.  Although he died in 1946, his family and supporters have long pushed for him to receive a pardon for the act of “transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes.”

That wish finally became reality as Trump granted the pardon to the pleasure of most in the boxing community.  Jeff Mayweather talked to some of the guys inside the Mayweather Boxing Club to see what they thought about the pardon.

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