1910 T220, Champions, Joe Gans 🥊 World Lightweight Champion
Joe Gans was the first African-American to win a world boxing title in the 20th century. He held the World Lightweight Championship from 1902 to 1908 and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Even 115 years later, this card is still visually striking, not dull or washed out.
1910 T220 boxing cards are particularly stunning because their rich lithography, vivid backgrounds, elegant portrait poses, and historically important fighters combine to create some of the most artistically beautiful early sports cards ever printed.
I prefer T220 Champions over most other tobacco boxing cards of that era.

1921 Exhibits, Joe Gans 🥊 World Lightweight Champion
Joe Gans was more than a legendary World Champion Boxer.
By every historical account, Joe Gans was admired outside the ring for his character, his conduct, his dignity, and his efforts to uplift others. He was not only a great fighter; he was respected as a gentleman, a businessman, and a socially conscious figure in a difficult racial era.
In his hometown, Baltimore, MD, he was owned and operated of the Goldfield Hotel and Bar considered respectable and well run.

I've posted some of these cards individually, but sometimes it's cool to see an assortment of early tobacco boxing cards assembled.
This is a collage I created from some of the first boxing cards that I acquired.
Enjoy the image.

1947-66 Exhibits Ray Robinson 🥊 "Sugar Ray"
This is one of my favorite boxing cards.
Sugar Ray Robinson is almost universally regarded as the greatest boxer of all time, or at the very least, among the top two or three in history.
Most boxing historians, fighters, and analysts—including ESPN, The Ring Magazine, and the International Boxing Research Organization—rank Robinson as the greatest pound-for-pound boxer ever.

1969 Victoria Vedetten Parade #583, Cassius Clay 🥊
I love this card and the beautiful full bleed photography.
It was produced and released in Belgium by the Victoria Chocolate Company.
The refers to Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay even though he legally changed his name in 1964.
This was likely a product of a time when many people were still resistant to using the name Muhammad Ali, and the card reflected the prevailing public and media attitudes at that time
The GOAT of boxing.