The TRIPLE FIGHT Museum

HOME of THE TRIPLE FIGHT

TFM is a digital museum currently under construction. Please contact us if you are interested in future membership, making a donation, sponsoring the museum, or hosting a digital or in-person presentation about the museum and its collection.

Above is a postcard image of Jack Johnson, the first heavyweight boxer to break boxing’s color line. In the 1890s and 1900s, it was common practice for White American champions to deny Black boxers opportunities to compete for their titles. Jack Johnson was given the opportunity to compete with Tommy Burns, an Italian-Canadian boxer who demonstrated that a true champion is determined by performance, not by one’s race. TFM is proud to highlight ground-breaking champions like Johnson and Burns. Below is a photo image of Tommy Burns taken during pre-fight ceremonies of the Johnson-Burns Title Fight, held at the Sydney Stadium in Sydney, Australia, on December 26, 1908.

A TFM Presentation

Welcome to THE TRIPLE FIGHT, where we focus on the evolution and intersection of three categories of fights from 1890 through 1929:

FIGHTS IN RINGS (Boxers and Boxing)
FIGHTS Among NATIONS (Military and War)
FIGHTS For and Against EQUALITY and JUSTICE

What we do and why.

Our mission is to provide audiences with more complete presentations of past fights and fighters and to nurture awareness and appreciation for fights that mattered in the past and those that matter today. Through our work, we aim to inspire audiences to not only remember past battles but to apply those things that were commendable in the past to current fights for justice, progress, and the greater good.

Posted March 2025.

The TRIPLE FIGHT Museum (TFM) is digital and features American and international fight-related materials curated over two decades by TFM Founder Dan Perkins. The museum exists for those who are interested in history, sports, military, social movements, the arts, and more. The museum’s global reach is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors.

We value our sponsors who enable us to:

Preserve materials that reveal how people in the past accessed information, what they saw and thought, and how they expressed their reactions to the information.
Interpret materials and underscore their relevance and significance to audiences today.
Contextualize the collection in ways that highlight linkages between materials across time, subject matter, and location.
Share our knowledge and the collection with global audiences.
Promote interests in history, sports history, politics, and social movements designed to make the world a better place.