James "Boilermaker" Jeffries - The ORIGINAL "Great White Hope" Appreciation Thread

[LoadedWraps]

Seen that video before and my favourite part has always been Jefferies playing with his dog (3:30 minutes) 6 hours before the fight.
Absolute classic!! Must of been a pretty casual guy.

Seems like he was.

[therealpugilist]

Before his legendary fight against reigning champion Jack Johnson on the 4th of July 1910, James Jeffries was quoted dropping the following savage statement:

"I am going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro."

oh snap!

Where my dudes don larryx and Tunney aka Freedom. at!?

The ORIGINAL Great White Hope!!




:boxing:

a tradition that has not changed...they still have a great white hope every generation, considering the number top level white fighters in america decreases all the time.

John L Sullivan, Jack Dempsey and all those cowards who drew the color line are non-en****** and not true world champions in my book

[therealpugilist]

Damn, Jefferies might have been racist lol, but he was a killer

people were just more out with it then....it was ok to be open and racist 100+ years ago..now people try to be all politically correct but still maintain the same ideals, but arent open about it

[therealpugilist]

Modern boxers have started ruining the sport with clinching doe...

he run doe,,,he clinch doe


you can tell who never watched pre-1950s boxing...many of the rounds featured a lot of clinching, especially 1910s and earlier

[therealpugilist]

he wasnt any hope... he had been retired for 5 years and the media fabricated most of the racial stuff/ticket prices went up

he wasnt the only one.....Stanley Ketchell, Bombardier Wells, so many of them

they were so butthurt, america exiled the man because they couldnt stand the best fighter in the world to be a black man...now thats some real weak, inferiority riddled BS

[j0zef]

Cool article, just read up on him. Apparently he was lured out of retirement for a large purse to be the "great white hope" as the media fanned the flames. He was out of the ring for 6 years and weighed 330 lbs before he started training.. dude was a fatass.

Oh the media.. some things never change.

[Kigali]

Seems like he was.

You just love you some racist white folks...


Typical mestizo

[Kigali]

Cool article, just read up on him. Apparently he was lured out of retirement for a large purse to be the "great white hope" as the media fanned the flames. He was out of the ring for 6 years and weighed 330 lbs before he started training.. dude was a fatass.

Oh the media.. some things never change.

Awwww

Poor racist..lured out of retirement.

[SN!PER]

In the old days, boxers were hard as fuck.

A hundred rounds, no gloves, heat waves, blizzards, thirty fights a year.

The average twelve-year-old of those times would whoop today's grown men.

[Nay_Sayer]

"I am going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro."
:boxing:

..And we all saw how well that went.

Lol..