pugilism

Joe Mandot was a Los Angeles-based featherweight boxer in the 1910s and 1920s: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=229207 &cat=boxer There are at least two other photos of Mandot in the collection so far.

I started a biography in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mandot

I found his World War I draft registration:

This is the New Orleans boxer. He was my great uncle and i have the original photos

Uncle Joe😌 from New Orleans not the one from Los Angelel.

Jack Johnson was born in Galveston TX

This is one of 4 Bain Collection photos of Jack Johnson taken in the same place and apparently at the same time, one of which is dated May 3, 1912

"Joe Edwards" was the alias for the welterweight German boxer Paul Maschke, who was a contender in the 'mixed rules' (boxing/wrestling) events that were taking place in parts of Europe.

On February 1, 1907, Paul Maschke ('Joe Edwards') (Boxing) defeated the Frenchman, Edmond Vary (Jiu Jitsu) in Berlin. There was a rematch on August 11, 1907, between Maschke and Vary (Jiu Jitsu), also in Berlin. One source states that Vary lost again, another, a newspaper article from August 18, 1907, calls it a draw. [1] [2] [3]

On May 17, 1908, in Copenhagen. Paul Maschke ('Joe Edwards') lost in a match with welterweight Johannes Jørgensen, (1867-1913), who used the alias "Jim Smith", [4]

Joe's wife, Rose "Edwards" was also a boxer. Two photographs of her are featured on Flickr.

"Jim Smith's" (LOC) photograph can be seen here:


 
There are two other (LOC) photographs of "Joe Edwards" on Flickr here:

           
"Joe Edwards"          by LOC      "Boxing class in Joe Edward's School, Berlin" by LOC