If you havent see Unforgiveable Blackness, you should watch it. Jack Johnson is one of the greatest P4P. He's one of my favorite fighters of all time. If I could meet one fighter that isnt alive today, it would be Jack Johnson. It would have been awesome to see him fight Jeffries. I would have been at ringside screamin, whoop him Jack! And everyone would have been lookin at me sayin, That white dude must have lost his mind! LOL!
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It's not so much Johnson's boisterous behavior that does it for me; but the fact that the man was genuinely VERY intelligent and he was his own man, he did what Jack Johnson wanted to do and he was ballsy enough to speak his mind and rub the double-standard of the time in people's faces. It's a small miracle he wasn't killed for doing the things he did at the time. And I'll say this much and many on here will disagree with me.....he could have beaten many of the modern fighters; he'd just have to be more active today because he wouldn't have 20 rounds or more to make a game plan work.
I rank him the #4 all-time heavyweight.
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Originally posted by K-DOGG View PostIt's not so much Johnson's boisterous behavior that does it for me; but the fact that the man was genuinely VERY intelligent and he was his own man, he did what Jack Johnson wanted to do and he was ballsy enough to speak his mind and rub the double-standard of the time in people's faces. It's a small miracle he wasn't killed for doing the things he did at the time. And I'll say this much and many on here will disagree with me.....he could have beaten many of the modern fighters; he'd just have to be more active today because he wouldn't have 20 rounds or more to make a game plan work.
I rank him the #4 all-time heavyweight.
I agree, Johnson was decades ahead of his time. I think he would be the undisputed champ if he boxed today.
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Originally posted by K-DOGG View PostHeads Up!!
I was wrong. It wasn't last night....It's TONIGHT!!....I think. My wife saw the advertisement and told me. I hope she's right.
Check your local listings!!
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Originally posted by SABBATH View PostGod bless your wife for telling you. My wife doesn't tell me, makes me sit through another re-run episode of King of Queens and then tells me the next day, "oh by the way, there was a boxing special on last night. I forgot to tell you."
lol!!! Give her time. We're newly-weds.
....and, she was wrong.Oh well, at least she tried.
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Originally posted by butterfly1964 View PostThis is black history month, so i will show biographies and photos of the three black heavyweights, that were the most important to black equality and civil rights, first jack johnson, then joe louis, then finally muhammad ali!
jack johnson
joe louis
muhammad ali
3x3 = 9 fights.
I'm takin' Joe!
Who's with me?
Who's ag'in me?
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- -JJ won his title when one of his men crawled under the Ring to start yelling "Stop the fight" that spooked the police into doing just that. Burns never got his rematch.
Ali won his title under equally dubious circumstance, and worse, the rematch an utter farce.
Joe the only one winning his outright with a clean KO...only in boxing folks!
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Originally posted by QueensburyRules View Post- -JJ won his title when one of his men crawled under the Ring to start yelling "Stop the fight" that spooked the police into doing just that. Burns never got his rematch.
Ali won his title under equally dubious circumstance, and worse, the rematch an utter farce.
Joe the only one winning his outright with a clean KO...only in boxing folks!
Wait, even if true, isn't it also irrelevant. Does Burns make a comeback, does Liston?
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