Jack Kearns
American boxer and manager (1882-1963)
ジャック・カーンズ
- Born
- 17 August 1882, Michigan
- Died
- 7 July 1963
- Citizenship
- United States
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxing promoter, boxer, boxing manager
Jack "Doc" Kearns (born John Patrick Leo McKernan; August 17, 1882 – July 7, 1963) was an American boxer and boxing manager. He was born on a farm in Waterloo, Michigan to Phillip H. McKernan and Frances M. Knauf (aka Hoff, later Quigley), daughter of German immigrant and Waterloo, Michigan, settler Peter Knauf. His father was the son of Irish immigrants Philip and Amelia "Ann" McKernan and is noted as being "among the early pioneers in the Northwestern Territories of Montana, Idaho and Washington."
Awards and honours
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 1990
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.