Some fun facts about Jack Johnson

[Steak]

For her part, Duryea expected better treatment than the other women in Johnson's life and expected faithfulness. She could not handle Johnson's continued infidelity, his abusive behavior and the hostile reaction of the public, and her bouts of depression gradually deepened.

On Christmas day, Johnson confronted her and beat her so badly that she was hospitalized.

Johnson ran to the train station to change the tickets and returned to his Chicago nightclub, the Café de Champion, to find Duryea dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in their upstairs apartment.

Cameron divorced him in 1924 because of infidelity.

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

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

Great boxers of Jeanette's time were barred from fighting for the heavyweight championship due to racism. This made the African-American community deeply feel the sting of Johnson's refusal to fight black boxers, since the opportunity to fight top white boxers was rare.

At the time, Jeanette stated, "Jack forgot about his old friends after he became champion and drew the color line against his own people."

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/f...-Joe-Jeanette?

White man hasn't forgotten that fool ****** with his white women, acting like he owned the world."

cursed Johnson out, told him how he had held up the progress of the Negro people for years with his attitude, how he was a low-down, no-good ******, and told him he wasn't welcome in my camp anymore."

" Jack Johnson ruined boxing for blacks," he wrote, "especially black heavyweights."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...11/4/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!

[carlos slim]

just the first black HW boxing champ thats nothing.....he had to go halfway round the world just to get a shot......at least he fought some black boxers unlike jack dempsey 10 years later who ducked many fighters including all black ones.....btw what does beating hos have to do with him as a fighter....i guess you can discredit sugar ray robinson monzon tyson too....i like how you blame jack johnson for holding back black people, yea he was the one who did it.....go back in your cave.......

[UglyPug]

if those facts are all true, thanks for the FYI. Johnson, like all men, was flawed. Haha he definitely wasn't a saint. But Ive learned never to judge, and always try to look at the situation from one's own perspective (impossible to do, but you should TRY). He still has contributed MORE to the "fighting spirit" that boxing stands for, then he has harmed it

[The Gambler1981]

Nothing ever changes in this sport~

[RubenSonny]

Why didn't you respond to my posts?

[Jim Jeffries]

That and a lot of people try to ignore or make light of the fact that Johnson fought a Jeffries that hadn't fought in 6 years, or try to get full credit for the shot 44 year old Fitzsimmons he beat.

[welcometosaigon]

That and a lot of people try to ignore or make light of the fact that Johnson fought a Jeffries that hadn't fought in 6 years, or try to get full credit for the shot 44 year old Fitzsimmons he beat.

Maybe if your hero didn't talk **** like:

"I feel obligated to the sporting public at least to make an effort to reclaim the heavyweight championship for the white race. . . . I should step into the ring again and demonstrate that a white man is king of them all."

And then proceed to get his ass whooped, people wouldn't make a big deal about it. It's called context, dumbass, they didn't call it the "Fight of the Century" for nothing.

[americanbot]

"blackirish137"

in those times it was normal to beat women. it doesn't make it right but you're dealing with a totally different mind set & culture. just like at one time it was normal to own ******....

stop trolling.

[Steak]

"blackirish137"

in those times it was normal to beat women. it doesn't make it right but you're dealing with a totally different mind set & culture. just like at one time it was normal to own ******....

stop trolling.

exactly...both were horrible things, I dont care what the culture was at the time.

theres no trolling going on, Im just stating facts and direct quotes. If you would like to ignore those, go on ahead, either that or take it up with Joe Louis, Jack Blackburn and John Roxborough.

if those facts are all true, thanks for the FYI. Johnson, like all men, was flawed. Haha he definitely wasn't a saint. But Ive learned never to judge, and always try to look at the situation from one's own perspective (impossible to do, but you should TRY). He still has contributed MORE to the "fighting spirit" that boxing stands for, then he has harmed it

Theyre all true, I included the sources I got them from.

Why didn't you respond to my posts?

I did to most. Did I miss one?

[gapo]

He seemed to enjoy life lavishsly and paid for it dearly toward the end of his career. He died broke , not just broke but broken. lol

But no one can deny his punching power as a fighter and a heavyweight champ. Laws were made to control him. Overall, not paying taxes put him down for good. Pretty soon in here, floyd will be wearing the same shoes. If his investment with fitty cents keeps going at all time low, he will be broke too.