Originally posted by Ivich
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He has a verbal agreement to fight McVey and the money was there. But instead takes what most would agree was an easier fight against Flynn.
It's not like the Flynn fight was a guarantee either. We know that between January and July that fight gets moved (barred) in every State in the Union except the desert State of New Mexico.
JJ doesn't make the money from the fight he thought he would. The crowd small and the film confiscated. He certainly would have done better in Australia fighting McVey.
There is even a good chance the Sims Act doesn't come into force and he makes money off the film as well and a more receptive Australian crowd.
If you take the standards these posters apply to Dempsey that what is good for the goose . . . Johnson ducked McVey for an easier fight.
Is that a duck?
Now not to be disingenuous I have always argued that a fighter/champion should take the best fight for the best money and in this case that would be taking the Flynn fight. There really wasn't any way for JJ to see that the Flynn fight would economically fall apart as it did. In short: As JJ's manager I would have advised him to do what he did do.
What I am challenging is the BS manner, the duplicity of some posters on this forum, who, when Dempsey does it, he is afraid of black men, but when Johnson does it, it suddenly becomes the right thing to do.
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