Has Harry Wills been airbrushed out of history?

I don't think there were any terrific black fighters around though.

 

Janitor, at that time I was a youth,watching all these great fighters a shoulder away from me....I had heard about Harry Wills before, but did not know much about him from an historical perspective, as I do now....Besides16 or 17 year old then ,I was awed by these famous boxers, and observed rather than talked....Tis a pity that youth is wasted on the young.......

 

The Morlocks, Funny,you should mention John Henry Lewis,former great Light Heavyweight champion, who was kod by the Brown Bomber in 1939....As ayoung boy my family lived next door to one of John Henry Lewis's trainors...That is where I developed my life long love of boxing...He would make me a boy of 8 or 9 years old spar with Lewis's stablemates, who would be in his apartment almost nightly...Made me eat salads and oil every supper, a lifelong habit since...I never saw John Henry visit, but would hear stories about him from my father....Lewis retired in 1939, after his friend Joe Louis Ko,d him in one round...Lewis was virtually blind by then.....

 

bull****! as many as there are now.

 

great story and terrific experience:good

 

Such as?

I agree that the amount of terrific black fighters then is the same as now. One or two at best.

 

I'm seeing a lot of "could have" and "might" in these iron clad arguments regarding the paucity of black challengers to Louis. There weren't any decent white challengers mid-80's to mid-90's... **** happens.

 

That's because he was in the military when most of what terrific black fighters there were were at their peaks. Before the war, the vast majority of HW contenders (including all #1 contenders) were white. After the war, the #1 contenders in succession were Conn, then Mauriello, then Walcott, and Louis fought them in exactly that order.

Now? That would be ZERO.

 

The Morlocks is a horrifically bad and ******ed poster.