Jersey Joe Walcott is LONG overdue for a movie

Kevin Hart

 

Thought this for ages.
The man s story is more interesting than Braddock s for me.
Taking Joe Louis to near defeat.
Beating the Great Ezzard Charles.
Then almost beating the Great Marciano.
And he also put those 3 down on the floor.

 

I think Cuba could do a great job playing Joe actually. Maybe not the right look but he's pretty good at adapting. Not Will ****ing Smith.

 

It has all the ingredients for a good film.

 

I've got a title!

"Journeyman"

 

He’s a very kind man and would take 2 hours drive to mentor McGirt as a youngster, McGirt himself was travelling a similar distance to get to said gym and talked about how much Walcott coming to watch or train him made him so certain he could be champ.
I think to finish the movie it would be good to see an old Walcott in the gym happy, if a little scarred and broken driving too and from there sessions supplying McGirt with his own (it doesn’t have to be religious) conviction/faith Buddy can talk about his dream to provide for his mother Walcott can relay a little of his story and the credits can be a highlight of his life… maybe he can seen watching McGirt win the title on TV or ringside (was he there?) Muhammad Ali calling him the dancing master when they were playing around Joe Louis giving him his flowers etc IDK I can’t write movies but I would certainly donate a lot of money to someone who could!

 

How about you eat your hat? Detach from the tit of dead writers and take refuge in the opinion of actual boxing folks and champions who all call him GREAT.

 

Was long overdue for a statue as well, but got one a couple years ago in Camden

 

"The Sweet Stepping Journeyman." Might be too much but there I go.

 

I have found the majority boxing writers to be lazy slobs, posers, failed novelists and flat-out liars, producing some of the worst and most inaccurate prose ever committed to paper . The contemporary reporters, the one who watched Walcott develop and age, referred to him as a Journeyman. And that would make a great title for the movie on his life.

 

Fighting on par with arguable the greatest heavyweight boxer in history, and the greatest light-heavyweight boxer respectively, coming close to beating the former, and beating the latter, equals to being a journeyman?
There is also the fact that becoming a champion excludes a boxer from any definition of a journeyman.

 

Always liked Joe. As a man and a fighter. God fearing Christian man at that.

 

He fought the second greatest heavy ever in name only. He lost one out of every three times he stepped through the ropes. He did not ascend to the peak of the division. The peak of the division descended to him. Journeyman.

 

In dramatic/marketing terms, that title would probably end up working as a reappropriation. Or a sort of sarcastic rejoinder to the film characters who call him that.