Lamon Brewster, It’s Up To You!

[kayjay]

I'm aware; I already made my salad and will be grilling before too long.

Pops will log on later tonight though.

[potatoes]

By TK Stewart - It was Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries who collided in Reno, Nevada on July 4, 1910 for the heavyweight championship of the world. But the fight was about much more than a battle over heavyweight bragging rights. This was an epic struggle that pitted a black man versus a white man for the greatest prize in all of sports – on the nation’s birthday.

It was a racially charged fight, stoked in part by writer Jack London. On the very day that the black Johnson won the heavyweight championship from the white Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia in 1908, London sent out the call for Jeffries to come out of retirement and win the title back from Johnson. In his column, which appeared in the New York Herald, London wrote: “One thing remains, Jeffries must emerge from his alfalfa farm and remove that smile from Johnson’s face. Jeff, it’s up to you!”

For the next two years the public clamored for Jeffries to make his return to the ring and take the title back for the white man. Jeffries returned, but he failed miserably in his quest as Johnson humiliated him and knocked him out in the fifteenth round.

And here we are 97 years later. [details]

TK Stewart should take a creative writing course wherein he is likely to learn what constitutes an appropriate comparison.

[Stickman]

Who gives a **** what color or nationality a fighter is? It's supposed to be about the best MAN winning.

And all the oversensitive weenies worried about racist remarks....grow the **** up. If you don't like what someone says (or writes), don't listen to it. I get so sick to death of that PC bull**** it makes me want to projectile vomit every time I hear it.

[kayjay]

I'm not so oversensitive that I mind being called an 'oversensitive weenie'. I'm just fine with that, actually.

[crold1]

This wasn't TK's best piece but it wasn't bad either and week in and week out he's a quality writer so I think some of you are being a bit harsh. The idea that one would root for someone based on their nationality is so common in boxing that I'm shocked anyone would care. Are U.S. fans to be 'above' the sort of joy and kinship Puerto Rican, Mexican and Filipino fans feel? If that's your personal cup, so be it but for others it makes for a better experience.

[Run]

Yeah yeah.

Even if Brewster does beat Wlad I don't want to hear the USA USA chant. Because that Nigerian will just show up and put Brewster in a flat out coma.



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[Run]

IBF entrant Wladimir Klitschko is also from Kazakhstan

klitschko is from the UKRAINE.

He was born in Kazakhstan.

sam peters?

Yes, the guy who hits harder than anyone in the division and would be facing a stationary almost braindead target with no defense.

Brewster is a liability.



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[GranTorino]

The heavyweight division needs a "great American hope" to restore the media's interest. But I don't see any on the horizon...the three best heavyweight prospects are Boystov, Povetkin and Solis, and the four best heavyweights seem to be Wlad, Peter, Chagaev and Ibragimov.

No it doesn't.

Boxing is international. There should certainly be a "hero" among the heavies that the public can identify with, but why should he have to be American?

I think Wlad fills the shoes quite well.

I'll gladly admit my man-love for him.

[Run]

you got it wrong turkey lips.

peters is not the hardest heavyweight. it's klitschko

It's Peter. Not Peter(s) like there are five of the Nigerian.

And whatever you say "(some ****** ****ing cliche)"



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[crold1]

Gran Torino: If a foreign heavyweight with Mike Tyson level charisma and power came along, U.S. fans would be about that and the mainstream likely would to. However, it's not a leap to say that mainstream American interest would be easier made with a mainstream American heavy. Brewster ain't it win or lose.