Jack London character is based on Hawaiian leper Kaluaikoolau, who in 1893 revolted and resisted capture from forces of the Provisional Government of Hawaii in the Kalalau Valley. An amateur boxer and avid boxing fan, London reported on the 1910 Johnson–Jeffries fight, in which the black boxer Jack Johnson vanquished Jim Jeffries, known as the "Great White Hope". In 1908, London had reported on an earlier fight of Johnson's, contrasting the black boxer's coolness and intellectual style, with the apelike appearance and fighting style of his Canadian opponent, Tommy Burns, 'what . . . [won] on Saturday was bigness, coolness, quickness, cleverness,
Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem. Boxer won the right to build four multiplex networks to broadcast digital television in 2008. They were competing against "Danmarks Digital TV A/S" (owned by Telenor) and "Danmarks TV A/S" (owned by Modern Times Group, MTG). The procurement was organized by the government agency "Mediesekretariatet" and in March 2008 Radio- og TV-nævnet chose Swedish Boxer as