Charley Johnson

Name: Charley Johnson
Alias: Charles A Palmer
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1902-08-20 (Age:31)
Height: 173cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Committed suicide by swallowing chloroform.

It has been reported that he was knocked out in 20 rounds by Roughhouse Charlie Burns prior to Sept. 1898. It has also been reported that his final bout was a loss on points with Charlie Goff at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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Virtually all of this record is courtesy of Thomas Scharf, International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO), Journal #76, Dec. 20, 2002, pp. 32-35.