Clinton 'The Sheriff' Jackson

In your opinion, at that time, Senor, who do you think Clinton had a better chance of beating at that time?

 

I met Clinton in 1970 at the age of 16 as a transfer from a Washington DC school to Evergreen H.S. Clinton's brothers (PIG and ???) were the "star" football players on the HS team. Clinton and I had interest in the same young lady (DM). To teach me a lesson, he had the football coach set up a ring in the Gym and invited the whole of the school to watch while we went at it for about 3 rounds, as I recall. Little did Clinton know that being from DC, we thrived in open hand boxing and I was no slouch. I believe I got more jabs in; however, when Clinton made contact, I felt it and was looking forward to the match end. Happy to say, I ended up with the young lady, the love of my life. I left Evergreen that same year after being identified as a "troublemaker" after a school walkout due to a racial incident that occurred during a football game and my aunt feeling my safety was at risk. Never saw Clinton or the love of my life again. Sorry to hear about Clinton's situation and I still miss DM. Wish social media had been around during those days!

 

I enjoyed watching Jackson fight. I remember watching both the Braxton & Fletcher fights. I dont know what ever happened to Braxton besides getting into some trouble and disappearing. The Fletcher fight was a legit GREAT fight as I remember it.
Last I remember reading Jackson was in prison for something very serious but I cant remember what. He said he was innocent and his wife said there was proof but cant get anyone to open the case up.

 

Hadn't though of ole Clint in years, he fought as an amateur around my parts. I thought he could win a title but his lack of a managerial team to get the right fights at the right time really hurt.

 

I knew Clint in Nashville in the mid to late 1980s. He was working for the sheriff’s department training amateurs. We got along well.

Clint stayed amateur after the 1976 upset - he was captain of that US Olympic team - to try for gold again in ‘80 but lost his amateur status for fighting a no-pay ‘amateur’ bout on a pro undercard so he had to turn pro.

Probably tried to move him too fast in the pros but he started his career older than most and had world-class power and skills.

Sometime after I moved away he got arrested and convicted for kidnapping a banker and holding him for ransom in Alabama, where he’s from. I’ve read the appeal that goes over his trial and the evidence and it seems pretty clear he did it - his own brother who was in on it testified against him IIRC and there was other evidence.

Far as I know he’s still in a maximum security prison in Alabama.

Sad story.