Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries 'Fight of the Century' 1910 Boxing Highlights
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025
- Highlights from Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries with a retrospective by Harry Carpenter and Reg Gutteridge.
Former world heavyweight champion Jeffries takes on Johnson for the world heavyweight title on 4 July, 1910 in the fight billed as the 'Fight of the Century'.
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Love this is like a mini documentary. What a Character Johnson was
Promoted as a 45 round fight!! Very few of today's prize fights could last a third of that...
Today, it wouldn't be scheduled for any longer than 12 rounds. I haven't seen a fight go 15 rounds ever since Spinks beat Holmes in 1986.
One of the main reasons for the modest pace of the two fighters was the fact this was a 45-round, unheard of in modern times. Also this marathon fight was fought under a July sky, in Reno Nevada.The fighters of those times (1910) had to pace themselves when fighting an opponent. The general behavior of the fighters back then, with a few exceptions, excels the swearing, cursing, and outright fighting nowadays after a decision is rendered that the loser don't like.Notice the way the fans were dressed, coat, tie, and straw hat. The people of those times in general were a better lot than most people of today.They totally lacked the modern day hardware, advancement of medical practices, cars to get around in. Trains was the general way to travel from state to state. The development od automobiles was just starting. Most Americans could not afford one. Racism was a terrible problem in those times. Usually restricted to certain, out of the way towns, even touching the big cities. Those hard times bred hard men! Out of those hard times came legendary fighters. John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbet, Peter Jackson, Robert Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Jeanette, Sam McVey, Joe Gans, Joe Walcott, Tom Sharkey, and Jim Jeffries to name just a few of these great fighters. In the history of boxing we have never before had that many greats within a 15-year period like these men. For all our modern day luxuries, the luxuries these men never experienced, we can say this. Despite what is said by some and that is Race Relations improved in leaps and bounds. But the general behavior of modern day people, not all but too many all the same, violent crime, theft, assaults, rapes, murder, murder of the unborn is practically off the scale in 2024. Having much less, the people of olden times stood 10-feet tall compared to the welfare state and crime rate of today. No welfare in 1910 when these two giants in boxing collided. You had to work to eat, to have a roof over your head, no govt housing. Times were much tougher in 1910, an issue most modern day people don't have any concept of. For all those hardships suffered by early 1900 Americans, they were a better and tougher bunch than most of these today.
Apathy who?