One doesn't have to hate JJ to believe him overrated.
JJ was throughly abused during his career and over the past 50 years we have overcorrected for those wrongs via exaggeration of his boxing prowess and looked the other way regarding his personal wrongs.
Come the 1960s the boxing wags were pushing each other out of the way so they could call Johnson the GOAT. Culminating in a pointless (but politically wise) pardon that was first called for during the rise of the Black Power Movement (in the '60s.)
JJ was throughly abused during his career and over the past 50 years we have overcorrected for those wrongs via exaggeration of his boxing prowess and looked the other way regarding his personal wrongs.
Come the 1960s the boxing wags were pushing each other out of the way so they could call Johnson the GOAT. Culminating in a pointless (but politically wise) pardon that was first called for during the rise of the Black Power Movement (in the '60s.)
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