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re: Trump considering full pardon for late boxer Jack Johnson
Posted on 4/21/18 at 6:48 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Posted on 4/21/18 at 6:48 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Jack Dempsey was the Babe Ruth of Boxing during that time. Dempsey was selling 80k to 100k tickets making tons of money in exciting fights and savagely KOing fighters that Johnson had boring decisions or losses against. Johnson the person was interesting his fights for the most part were boring. Dempsey while having exciting fights was boring outside the ring. Interesting contrast between the two.
This post was edited on 4/21/18 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 4/21/18 at 11:12 pm to Jake_LaMotta
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Johnson had boring decisions or losses against. Johnson the person was interesting his fights for the most part were boring.
That's true...they say he was like the Mayweather of HW boxers.
Ring Magazine, in an article, The 50 greatest heavyweights of all time (1998 Holiday Issue p 32), said that Johnson was “years ahead of his time stylistically, he revolutionized boxing footwork, defense, and the concept of ring generalship.”
Consider that Nat Fleischer, the founder of Ring Magazine, who saw Johnson fight and those up to the Ali era, said, in his book Black Dynamite Vol 4., p. 6), “Jack Johnson boxed on his toes, could block from most any angle, was lightning fast on his feet, could feint an opponent into knots…he possessed everything a champion could hope for punch, speed, brains, cleverness, boxing ability and sharp-shooting.”
Fleischer also reported in 1958, that Johnson’s “mastery of ring science, his ability to block, counter, and feint, are still unexcelled.”
Jack Johnson is widely regarded as the greatest defensive heavyweight of all time.
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