Vitali Klitschko Vs Battling Jim Johnson

This has to be a Boxed Ears alt account.

 

I always go back and forth on this one and on Vitali vs. Big Sandy Ferguson.

 

The deception goes deeper than you think.

You are also Boxed Ears. You just haven't realized it yet.

 

Right, Ferguson gave Jack Johnson some good fights, so using that logic Vitali better be ready!

But in reality Battling Jim might not even be good enough to be Vitali's sparring partner.

 

Jeez, how many threads on Battling Jim Johnson do you need?

 

Lighting strikes down in the ring and kills vitali instantly

Johnson """ko""" in the 1st round

 

Any thread on Battling Jim Johnson has my attention.

• A cabled article printed in the Evening World (New York City) stated:

Jack Johnson barely missed losing his heavyweight championship in a ten round bout here last night. Jeffries' conqueror met Battling Jim Johnson, a big negro from Memphis Tenn. and barely lasted through the final round. He was tottering and groggy at the finish. A few rounds more and he might have been knocked out. . . . In the last minute of the fight the Memphis negro rushed Johnson to the ropes and in a mixup both went to the floor, with Jack's arm around Jim's waist. Both were on their feet quickly but Jack looked exhausted just as the final bell rang. It is possible that Jack hurt his arm in the fall to the floor. . . . In the seventh round the Memphis man succeeded in breaking down Jack's guard and three times after landing on the body grazed Jack's jaw with terrific uppercuts

 

Ferguson never come remotely close to beating Jack Johnson ,and I would be interested in any primary source that states he won rounds against him.
Ferguson did however manage to beat:
Jeannette
Klondike
Kubiak
Armstrong
Barry
And draw with
Langford
Ruhlin x 2
Two of Vitali's sparring partners were Travis Walker and Raphael Butler, I would pick Battling Jim to beat both of them.
NB Both floored Vitali in sparring , the session with Butler was called off so that's obviously a tko win for Butler which entitled him to a title shot!LOL

 

This is the first part of that article which you somehow left out.lol

• The December 20, 1913, edition of the Saskatoon Phoenix (Saskatoon, Canada) stated:

Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, and Battling Jim Johnson, another colored pugilist, of Galveston, Texas, met in a ten-round contest here to-night, which ended in a draw. The spectators loudly protested throughout that the men were not fighting, and demanded their money back. Many of them left the hall. The organizers of the fight explained the fiasco by asserting that Jack Johnson's left arm was broken in the third round. There is no confirmation of a report that Jack Johnson had been stabbed, and no evidence at the ringside of such an accident. During the first three rounds he was obviously playing with his opponent. After that it was observed that he was only using his right hand. When the fight was over he complained that his arm had been injured. Doctors who made an examination certified to a slight fracture of the radius of the left arm. The general opinion is that his arm was injured in a wrestling match early in the week, and that a blow to-night caused the fracture of the bone.
BTW The Evening Star did not have a reporter present at the fight and relied solely on an AP cabled report. Here is Geoffrey C Ward's opinion on the fight you remember old Jeff? Last week you were telling us all what a good writer he is.
Taken from " Unforgivable Blackness".

"When the two men met at the Nouveau Cirque onDecember19th,nothing much happened for two rounds.
Both were counterpunchers,and Battling Jim seemed especially wary .
In the third the Champion launched an attack that sent the younger man reeling.
Then ,for no apparent reason,he pulled back.
There were cries of Fake! Some customers called for4 their money back.
In fact the Champion had fractured his left forearm slamming the challenger's head and had to fight the next seven rounds with just one hand clinching whenever he could.At the end it was the younger man who was breathing hard."


Sounds a bit different to your version doesnt it?LOL

 

That is easy. Ferguson won rounds over Johnson. Lots of lesser guys did the same. Jim McCormick with a known record of 4-6-2 did the same in 1906 for example!

1906-04-17 : [url]Jim McCormick[/url] 195 lbs lost to [url]Jack Johnson[/url] 195 lbs by DQ in round 8 of 10

• Location: Association Park, Topeka, Kansas, USA
• Referee: [url]Dave Porteus[/url]

Notes

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round when Johnson started to take over, at which point, McCormick bit Johnson's shoulder in a clinch. At the insistence of the crowd, Referee Porteus awarded the decision to Johnson.


But back to Ferguson winning rounds vs Johnson:

[url]https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1905-07-19/ed-1/seq-10/[/url]

Now will you learn, as I have pointed this out to you before??? That's all I ask.

If you read other stuff, the foul from Ferguson could have been retaliation for Johnson landing shots that were borderline low.

 

No one in his right mind would expect an unbiased answer from you.