Jimmy Cannon Screenwriter

• Gender: Male
• Citizenship: United States
• Born: Apr 10, 1909
• Died: Dec 5, 1973

Jimmy Cannon (April 10, 1909 - December 5, 1973) was a sports journalist inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport.

Born in New York City, Cannon started at the New York Daily News when he was 17. He later wrote for the New York Post, New York Journal-American and King Features Syndicate. He was a war correspondent for Stars and Stripes during World War II. He also wrote a column for Newsday during the 1950s.

A long-time boxing writer, Cannon once wrote that "boxing is the red light district of sports". When Sugar Ray Robinson was making his famous come back, Cannon told him not to return to the ring. He wrote about this several times in his column. He famously said of Joe Louis that "he is a credit to his race, the human race" and was one of the first sportswriters to see the importance of the black athlete. A contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, they were friends and mutually admired each others writing.