Joe Louis. The 8 black men who got away.

Mendoza applying double standards in a debate? I'm not having that!

 

Let me get this straight? Said poster has been sending you private messages to avoid engaging you publically on the forum?

 

Excellent post, sums up my thoughts better than I could have

 

Thanks Greg, i appreciate it. It's great to have you contributing here BTW

And you're probably not as nasty and straight as me

 

Cheers John.

I know you didnt mean it in the context I initially read it, but for a split second, when I read you said I'm probably not as straight as you, I thought to myself "wtf has that got to do with anything and how can anyone be straighter than straight" ;-)

 

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

 

Oh gee, that was funny.

A timely musical interlude? Like they used to do on the old series, The Young Ones? :-

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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18707417/1935-04-21-toles-louis/

Found this interesting newspaper article from 1935 from the week leading up to Joe Louis’s fight with Roscoe Toles. No mention by the paper that it was an exhibition

 

It's been posted verbatim on Boxing Scene today by--------------
Dr Z!

 

And that's not the half of it.

Careful tho, he said he's not banned here and can post whatever he likes when he likes

 

What did the 8 black men get away from at the end of the day?

Probably some of them got away from featuring in a Joe Louis knockout highlight reel.

I don't think that any of them, outside of Elmer Ray, were likely to give Louis a competitive fight.

Unless we are talking about some sort of Tyson Douglas level upset!

 

It was a hit thread/witch hunt from the start. It's fine to question and dissect careers, absolutely, but not with this level of stupidity and bias.

 

The title reads like they were locked in the cellar chained to the radiators tbf and Louis was a serial killer who got caught.