Some fun facts about Jack Johnson

[americanbot]

im a fan of the mans career and his life inspite of the fact that he was human. good day sir.

not only that....but he was literally lying about the details....

you have to wonder, what the **** is wrong with some of these guys? the guy is dead & he's trying to lie on his once being.

jesus ****.

[americanbot]

Im posting facts. With the sources.

If you get upset about it, thats your own fault.

jesus ****.

[Steak]

jesus ****.

theres no lies about any of the details.
direct quotes.

he beat his wife and sent her to the hospital. thats a fact.
I dont give a damn if she was seeing another man.

[americanbot]

theres no lies about any of the details.
direct quotes.

he beat his wife and sent her to the hospital. thats a fact.
I dont give a damn if she was seeing another man.

jesus ****

[americanbot]

remember my description of you in that other thread?

i am now 100% sure that you fit this bill and i will look out for your agenda filled post in the future......

[Steak]

remember my description of you in that other thread?

i am now 100% sure that you fit this bill and i will look out for your agenda filled post in the future......

nope, must not have been paying attention, since youre one of the least knowledgable posters here.
enlighten me.

If you want to pretend you 'won', knock yourself out.
youre the only one whining about some facts.

[RubenSonny]

I did to most. Did I miss one?

Yup you missed too because you can't respond to them.

Jack Dempsey actually did fight a couple black fighters. Like John Lester Johnson who I read broke Dempsey ribs during their fight.

He fought some absolute bum as well but I can't recall his name.

[Fish_Scotland]

he pretty much killed her. beat her and neglected her so badly she shot herself. are you suggesting this was not a big deal?

real nice.

theres no trolling going on whatsoever. all just facts that most people dont know.
you just like to label it is trolling....why?

You are trolling my friend. Context is obviously something that hasn't crossed your mind. That doesn't mean we think it's right he beat his women but you can't look back on times gone by and apply todays cultural values to events in the past. It's the same when people start on about Ali being a racist, he would have been in todays context but considering the cultural diference and differences in society back then it becomes non applicable.

[Mr. Philadel]

http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblack...out/women.html

Heres some super duper quotes from other blacks associated with boxing that knew Johnson!

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2407742/article-Native-sons-and-daughters-North-Hudson-native-and-20th-century-boxing-sensation-Joe-Jeanette?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1136911/4/index.htm

-only fought Langford when Langford weighed 156lbs, refused to fight him when Langford actually became a HW
-only beat a teenage McVea
-Won the title off of someone that weighed under 170lbs(Tommy Burns)
-Went to a draw with someone that weighed 160lbs(Jack O'Brien)
-Dropped by a 170lb fighter(Standley Ketchel)
-Was not actually the first black boxing champ(that was George Dixon in 1891), just the first black HW boxing champ

Hoped everyone learned stuff they didnt know about Johnson before!

yup...green for educating me a lil' more about my peeps first HW champ....this REALLY makes me see him more differently than I did before I hit this thread.....good thread!!

[prinzemanspopa]

He's hardly the first professional fighter to beat the sh^t out of a woman,is he? Joe Frazier was arrested just a few years ago for beating up the mother of his youngest son.






Not to mention that Frazier was an even worse cherry picker than Johnson.