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Originally Posted by ETM
Johnson not fighting black contenders cant really be held against him. Having two black fighters fighting for the title in America wouldnt have been worth a warm bucket of piss. They couldnt handle the fact that he was champion as it was.
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Exactly. No one can say two blacks fighting for the championship would've been more viable than Dempsey-Willis. There was precedence of the latter. Even Joe Louis gets the occasional criticism for not fighting enough black contenders...