Tags: Boxer.
Jack Sharkey (October 26 1902 – August 17 1994) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas (his birth surname is sometimes given as Cukoschay) the son of Lithuanian immigrants in Binghamton New York but moved to Boston Massachusetts as a young man. Sources report little of his early life until at the outset of the First World War teenaged Joseph repeatedly tried to enlist in the Navy.
