My Critique of Richard Bak's Joe Louis, The Great Black Hope

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- - No greater pro boxing debut can be had than Joe's 4th of July debut as the main event. 1st round he blasts out a fine local journeyman through the ropes to land smack dab in the lap of the attending now astonished Commish. No 4th Fireworks were needed that year.

A few more fights like these are attracting national attention since they are main events, so Roxborough and Black solicit MSG Honcho Jimmy Johnston who politely informs them there is no market for colored fighters at MSG, and this the mid 1930s.

Clearly the retrospective of Jack trying to make the Harry fight was the epic of Sisyphus endlessly rolling his boulder up the Mountain of Purgatory only to have it slip out and thunder back down to the base of the mountain, an impossibility.

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- - Bio published in 1996 that predates Youtube and Boxrec meaning Bak had to rely on the Hat and Cigar fables of the Ol' Guys populating boxing experts.

Otherwise he would've known Sam Langford was mostly blind and way past his sell date when Jack whooped Willard and Primo did catch Sharkey flush to ice him for longer than the 10 count, not the shadow punch Sugar and the like touted in the day.

Sugar actually thought Jim "I don't tackle, block, or run decoy plays" Brown was the best athlete in history, crimony!!!