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Jeffries hadn't fought for 6 years and had to drop 100 pounds. Interestingly enough, 7 years prior they met in a bar a and Johnson asked for a fight, and Jeffries said not in the ring but they could go into a cellar right then and fight, and Johnson said no.
Great fight
A lot of Black people were killed because of Johnson beating Jeffries.
Early social media 1910s was lit
Early social media 1910s was lit
Boxing was and always be about a means to sell tickets . . . by whatever means. In a thousand years, when everything else is gone, there will be two things left – – – boxing & prostitution.
This is good stuff.
And by the way dude, boxing stop being about race a long time ago.
The media would never misquote or distort anything,nothing changes.Sell the ,Ratings and papers.Jeff and Jack in 05 ,yeah.Heard about the cellar dare to Jack,version I take is Jack saying "what good that gonna do me" They would'a strung Jack up.and no profit.Wish Johnson had fought Sam langford agin ,instead of those ham n eggers white boys.Jack drew the color line too.Why not they damn shure did!
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Awesome video, I like your style of discussing the old articles. Very cool. Unfortunately racism was tied into boxing as well, since Tom Molineaux fought for his freedom from a Virginia plantation (a crazy story). I feel like it got slightly better after Joe Louis, but I think how the public treated Sonny Liston makes me think otherwise.
I think Jefferies knew from the get that hw was screwed. Hence the insistence for the huge payday he demanded and got.
I think Jeffries could have given Johnson all Jack could handle in 1904. But Jeffries avoided him, so that's on him. But… Johnson himself drew the color line as well. Giving Stanley Ketchel a shot, and avoiding Langford and Jeannette… was egregious.
I'm not real big on boxing. But I do have a pretty good knowledge of boxing history. If Rocky Marciano had come out of retirement around 1960 as he said he thought of doing in an interview. He likely would have eventually fought Ali or Sonny Liston.
If either one of them had defeated Marciano it probably would have been a repeat of the Jack Johnson Jim Jeffries fight. Maybe even some rioting would have resulted as it did after this contest.
The ironic thing is that Jack Johnson refused to defend his title against any African Americans. He enjoyed being known as the only Black champion and didn’t want any other to hold the position. He was kind of a massive egomaniac. Even the way he bet against Joe Louis, and showed everyone the cash he had won that very night
Jeffries wasn’t all so sure of himself, despite the bravado and racist insults. Deep inside, he knew that Johnson was the better man.
Bob Armstrong was the former Colored Heavyweight Champ 🏆. Race and boxing went back as far as Bill Richmond & Tom Molyneaux! Black Boxers in the Colonial Era!🤔😡
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Bs. Why is nigger boxer cut and pasted??? Let’s see the original!!!
Famous last words….
Regardless of race or racism, Johnson was a lowlife prick..many disliked him and not based on his race
Dumb people believe history is what they have been told thru movies..
Note that johnson screwed Moran out of his purse..there are ithers who knew the kind of perdon johnson really was
"It's always been this way" because 'this way' makes money, that's why.
Even today whites love a white fighter creaming a black one.
It's actually not that bad all things considered.
We are talking 1910s here, n*gger and c**n were such common words that were used by whites without putting much thought into.
Just how Jeffries seems to speak about Armstrong in high regard despite calling him a n*gger.
Jeffries was offered $100 k for this about which in those does was a huge sum of money. He later said the money he received was not worth the humiliation he felt after the loss. I truly believe Jeffries believed the fight was fixed. It was odd that the fight originally to be in California had a late location change to Nevada. Rumors were if the fight had taken place in California Johnson would have taken a dive but who knows. Jeffries in his prime was known for his strength, amazing endurance, ability to take huge amounts of punishment and his powerful left hand. He took none of those in the ring with him that day in Reno. He had to know this. It is written in several publications that Johnson told Jeffries days before the fight "Jeff this is not California. Every man for himself". It is said that Jeff brooded and went into a depression before the fight after hearing this. He commented later "I could always count on my left to the body. It never let me down. That day in Reno I left it go and it was little more than a powder puff. I knew I was in trouble"
People act like Conor McGregor was the first fighter in history to cross the line with trash talk. Articles like this show it was going on a lot longer than that.