Nero ***** (C H I N K) and Panama Joe Gans used to train in the same facility. Nero is a Puerto Rican and Panama was actually from Barbados.
Nero didn't like Gans much and was always trying to get under his skin to get a fight out of Gans. ***** felt Gans time was passed and his time was coming but because Gans was just a Colored champion and not the lineal Panama felt he had bigger fish to try to fry.
One day while training separately at the athletic club Nero let loose a string of insults Gans simply laughed off until Nero rolled out "treehugger"
A fight ensued and Nero got the better of Gans before the rest of the AC broke it up. Gans agreed to fight Nero and gave him a whoopin'
I felt like that was interesting. From modern eyes it seem like Panama was really into the environment, or, really hated people who were. Which is kinda weird for a boxer. So I was looking into why Panama took the term treehugger to such offense but other terms Nero had tried did little to affect Gans' mood.
Turns out treehugger was a term used by blacks and Puerto Ricans similar to the n-word but for the West Indies peoples.
Nero wasn't calling him a hippy, he was calling him a racial slur. Which makes way more sense and is an interesting anecdote I felt like y'all might like to hear.
Commonwealth Sporting Club, Oct 1921
Had hoped the censor was better with the BS change over, but, no. It's not often I'll do this, I do think the folks running the forum should get more **** for people like me doing **** like this, where I explain a boxer's name beyond a censor.
Nero didn't like Gans much and was always trying to get under his skin to get a fight out of Gans. ***** felt Gans time was passed and his time was coming but because Gans was just a Colored champion and not the lineal Panama felt he had bigger fish to try to fry.
One day while training separately at the athletic club Nero let loose a string of insults Gans simply laughed off until Nero rolled out "treehugger"
A fight ensued and Nero got the better of Gans before the rest of the AC broke it up. Gans agreed to fight Nero and gave him a whoopin'
I felt like that was interesting. From modern eyes it seem like Panama was really into the environment, or, really hated people who were. Which is kinda weird for a boxer. So I was looking into why Panama took the term treehugger to such offense but other terms Nero had tried did little to affect Gans' mood.
Turns out treehugger was a term used by blacks and Puerto Ricans similar to the n-word but for the West Indies peoples.
Nero wasn't calling him a hippy, he was calling him a racial slur. Which makes way more sense and is an interesting anecdote I felt like y'all might like to hear.
Commonwealth Sporting Club, Oct 1921
Had hoped the censor was better with the BS change over, but, no. It's not often I'll do this, I do think the folks running the forum should get more **** for people like me doing **** like this, where I explain a boxer's name beyond a censor.
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