Jack Johnson Tribute

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  1. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    From the man with the big ol Jack Johnson avatar


    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyNGH7pFhKM[/ame]

    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Reznick Productions Presents:
    A collection of highlights and knockouts from Jack Johnson

    Song: Primavera

    Table of Contents:

    HD Clips:
    :21 - :26
    :32 - :41
    3:47 - 3:51
    4:00 - 4:05
    4:35 - 4:45

    Fights:
    Tommy Burns - 1:45 - 3:05
    Stanley Ketchel - 3:05 -3:30
    Jim Jefferies - 5:15 - 6:30

    Special Moments:
    Johnson pulling 4 of Ketchel's teeth from his glove - 3:25 - 3:30

    Special Appearances:
    John L. Sullivan - 4:50 - 4:55
    Sam McVey - 7:02 - 7:05
    Kid Chocolate - 4:34 - 4:37

    Knockdowns:
    Burns 1:55 - 2:05
    Jefferies 1 5:45 - 5:50
    Jefferies 2 5:58 - 6:05

    Knockouts:
    Burns 2:55 - 3:00
    Ketchel 3:15 - 3:25
    Jefferies 6:10 - 6:20

    Short Bio:
    1878 - Born in Galveston, Texas, USA on the 31st of March.
    1908 - 1915 - The first Black American World Champion.
    1908 - He defeated the Canadian Tommy Burns at Sydney. His win provoked violent racial prejudice, and a 'Great White Hope' was sought to defeat him - the former champion James J Jeffries - whom he knocked out in the 15th round in a fight in 1910. He lost his title in 1915 to Jess Willard in 26 rounds.
    His relationship with one of the two white women he married led to a conviction under the Mann Act for transporting a white woman across state lines for immoral purposes, and he was a fugitive in Europe for seven years.
    1946 - He died in a car accident, and his life became the subject of a Broadway play.
    1954 - Among the first boxers admitted to the Boxing Hall of Fame.
    2005 - The US decided to preserve the Johnson Jefferies fight because of it is "historically significant".

    Nat Fleischer ranked Johnson as the #1 All-Time Heavyweight
    Charley Rose ranked him as the #2 All-Time Heavyweight
    Herb Goldman ranked him the #4 All-Time Heavyweight
     
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  2. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hard to watch this footage(great work, BTW) and not rate JJ the greatest fighter pre-Dempsey at least.
    Anybody else think should Jeffries not be disq. after the second kd when helped into the ring?
     
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  3. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    thanks matt

    lol and I feel sorry for the guy who would protest Jefferies being held up at the stadium

    I also think had it not been for the great wave of people rushing to Johnson after the fight, something would have happened. It almost seems like the white crowd that rushes to Johnson in the ring sooths out the intense emotions in the crowd.
     
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  4. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen PERIOD - awesome absolutely awesome (great music too - what's that called) - god I wish Johnson could've known how many people now think he was one of the greatest ever - the man was unlike any other heavyweight champion in history - a genius - and this vid opitumises (if thats how you spell it?) that.
     
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  5. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Seriously, that is a great video. You really captured what was going on in the Jeffries fight, brilliant vid that Reznick.
     
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  6. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Great work. Great job ... thanks for posting it !
     
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  7. Duranium

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    Love how the crowd jumps up when he gets knocked down, only for him to get back up and knock the guy clean out right after.

    And the whole Jeffries fight and post-fight makes me warm inside.

    Amazing video reznick! **** early 1900's whitey
     
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  8. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nat Fleischer callked Jack Johnson the greatest heavyweight he had ever seen..
    Wow, to think that little old me shook his hand in NYC,not long before he was killed in a car crash !!!
     
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  9. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    that was great reznick
    you always seem to have great quality
     
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  10. Meast

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    Another great video Reznick! I watched Unforgivable Blackness again the other day, it's great how you managed to get most of his career highlights into 7 minutes or so!
     
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  11. Unforgiven

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    Great video.
    To hell with the revisionism, Johnson remains one of the greatest fighters of all-time.
     
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  12. Bill1234

    Bill1234 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You're the first person I've seen on the internet or in person to say (and I believe you) that you've met Jack Johnson.
     
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  13. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    wow

    thanks a lot guys. Its real nice to read all your feedback. These awesome comments are the rewards I seek out when creating these highlights!

    And the clip at the end with Sam McVey is from the Willard fight, but I just found it necessary to include the footage with McVey.

    Can someone remind me who the two people standing beside Jefferies during the handshake sequence are? I know they are shaking hands with Sullivan. And I believe one of them is Corbett. Can anyone tell me exactly who they are? Thanks! Also if anyone has any suggestions for the table of contents, or the short bio, PLEASE lend me some advice.

    And Burt, its an honor to share the same message board with the man who shook the Galveston Giant's hand.
     
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  14. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes B, My father took me to a deli on 42st @Bwy..Next door there was a
    " small Carnival called "Huberts Flea Circus"..Hard to believe a man would attach fleas to a small chariot, and they [the fleas] would pull it.
    Well down in the basement, as an added attraction old Jack Johnson
    with a beret on his head would talk to the crowd, and sign autographs
    if asked...We didn't impose...Sorry now..I shook his hand with other
    customers...Being so young, I only knew what my father told me, that
    he [JJ] was once heavyweight champion...Later on i understood Lil Arthurs
    place in fistic history...He died a couple years later from a car accident while driving [he loved speed] to the second Joe Louis/Billy Conn fight.b.b.
     
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  15. Nicky P

    Nicky P Jamiva Boxing Full Member

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    Great great tribute! The people rushing in the ring.... the police stopping the video..... the racist drawing of him eating the watermelon. You did a fine job of capturing some of the many racial inequalities dehumanizational aspects of those times for blacks.
     
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