Fighters from the past that to this day make you go "WOW!"

[Scott9945]

def jack johnson. i mean what he did at the time he did. ****ing unmatchable!

i encourage you guys to pick up his autobiography. yeah, i bet most didn't know that he wrote one. well he did. and if you read it, good luck separating fact from fiction.

it's kinda sad that he is forgotten about as much as he is. ali gets big props in black history month. but, there would be no ali without johnson. even ali said that, after watching a play on jack's rise to being the first colored heavyweight champ, there were so many similarities. ali basically said that he has balls upon balls for doing what he did.

anyways, jack, not only a great boxer, but in a time where blacks were still getting lynched, he chose to stay away from judging people based on color. helluva guy if you ask me.

there is a lot people don't know about jack. example, he spoke more than one language. he opened a club(club de champion i think) which admitted people of all races.

a man ahead of his time.

Johnson's autobio was the best I ever read. He had opinions on everything. Highly recommended.

[Kickmeoff]

Wen i look back and I think of all those HW's of the 70's.. Ali, Norton, Fraizer and Foreman...

To this very day I still go.. WOW!.. are they ever overated

?????????? Overrated?

[j]

damn scott, your offline. i was going to ask you who is the lovely lady in your avy.

yup, jack had a lot of interesting advice. one or two examples, he mentioned taking a walk after a meal to help aid digestion. he recommended boxing as an excellent form of exercising and self defence.

you guys can probably pick up his auto bio for $15 or so on ebay. that's where i got mine. it was a 1969 second printing i think. i was old school paperback form with his famous pose on the cover that is remarkably similar to my boxing arts main training posture. chinese boxing and older school and bareknuckle boxing share a lot of similarities.

yeah, i recommend it highly as well. he describes his fights, whom and where as well as what went down as well as his personal life from an early age.

i have unforgivable blackness as well, but i enjoyed jack's auto bio a bit more.