Lineage of the coloured heavyweight title

Great thread! There is a lot of information in here. I enjoyed reading it! Thanks, Janitor!

 

Answering my own question Fighting Bob Lawson became the lineal coloured champion he held on to the title until he lost his fight to George Godfrey. in September 1926. The lineal title will then be unified with the official title when Godfrey beat Gains in november. Godfrey would not lose another fight to an eligible contender, so i guess that he really does have the real lineal coloured title.

 

SNOOPBEE N Janitor ROCK! Great stuff guys. Thanks. DRMULLEN.

 

Seek out the documentary on Jack Johnson called "Unforgiveable Blackness". V. Good.

 

George Godfrey had quite a few DQ's on his record. I noticed he beat Larry Gains once but then lost to him later on a Low Blow DQ. Did Godfrey DQ fights when things were not going his way?

 

Only saw this last week. Excellent.

 

Thanks for posting this.

 

great post. very informative

 

this is a neat project

 

:good A truly superb post Janitor! Many thanks mate!!! One can only learn from such posts! Indeed such posts they are one of the main reasons I joined this site! I was fascinated to learn that there was a championship fight in the city of Newcastle, England, in 1902, which is where I live!!!! What a quiz question that is going to make. Many thanks, once again!!

 

I agree. Best documentary that I've seen of Johnson.

 

The actual lineage of the colored HW title during through time was with Johnson, who was never beaten by a black man until 1926 when he lost to Bob Lawson. What Langford, McVey, and others held was a dubious claim that they invented as a means of marketing themselves.

After Johnson's loss, the lineage should resume with George Godfrey, who beat Lawson shortly after his win over Johnson.

 

ANy chance of compiling an easy to read title lineage, with number of reigns, etc? This is a great project since you can say at some points the colored title superceded the white title in significance

 

Black fighters had to go through all kinds of **** in this time period,did n't they. A reflection of life in general for them circa early twentieth century.

 

Sometimes, when he was paid to lose, because he had too much pride to lay down.