- Claimed to have invented the left hook punch.
- World heavyweight boxing champion, 1892-1897. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1990.
- Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, 1980.
- Generally considered the first scientific fighter because he used his speed and knowledge of his opponent's strengths and weaknesses to develop a strategy for a fight rather than brawn and volume of punches.
- Played by Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim (1942).
- On 21 May 1891, Corbett fought Peter Jackson, an Australian who couldn't get a fight against the reigning champ, John L. Sullivan, because he was black. The match went 61 rounds before it was declared a no-contest.
- Fought his brother, Tom, a total of 8 times from July - August 1898. In their 10 August 1898 bout, Jim badly damaged Tom's nose.
- His bout with Steve O'Donnell was stopped when Corbett was told of the deaths of his parents. Patrick Corbett had bet his net worth on Jim's 17 March 1897 title defense against Bob Fitzsimmons. Jim's defeat ruined the elder Corbett, whom, police concluded, shot his wife then himself in a fit of dementia. (16 August 1898)
- Autobiography, "The Roar of the Crowd" (1925)
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