Jim Jeffires - So, If The Following Is True....

Do you have more information on this boycott, or boxing being seen as an evil? When it started and ended?

A similar era may come up soon, seeing how society is softening and you can get a lawsuit these days for a brief high school brawl ...

 

The move to ban boxing in the United States never really died out and the outlawing of the other vices lasted for decades, not that all these things didn't remain popular with much of the general population. Boxing was still illegal in 26 states, the majority, in 1925.

 

18-1-2 (15 KO, 120 EX)

hardly constitutes being called an all time great...just IMO

 

You might be interested in the long discussion on that knockdown on another thread. Whatever happened, and so far the evidence seems to be against Jeff actually being knocked down, there was an Associated Press report Jeff was indeed knocked down. If you could provide original info, that would be interesting. Why do the "historians" teach Jeff was knocked down? What is their proof?

 

Nope I dont have any original info but I've read and heard from old timers that monroe was full of crap. And the teachers teach it in their montana history classes just to pump monroe up, true or not, because he was from here I would guess.

 

So basically, until 1925, not only were most blacks frozen out of the heavyweight title picture, but also 50% of the states? That's a pretty big drain. Any idea if that ban was also on amateur boxing?

 

Don't know how widespread amateur boxing was--there were certainly private clubs. This might be one of the problems with Jeffries and others of that era. Their fights might have been in private clubs. Jeff also worked on a railroad and so may have made his way to small western cattle and mining towns. If he had fights there, they are probably lost to history.