Johnson's 1912 Defence Against Jeannette Cancelled By Commission

mcvey · Feb 27, 2012

Duodenum said: ↑

Jesse McMahon was of course the father of Vince McMahon Senior, and grandfather of the current Czar of World Wrestling Entertainment. It took a long time for black champions to come to the fore in Vince Jr.'s WWF and WWE, and I think they may still be relatively few and far between. They didn't even have a black singles champion until Ahmed Johnson (Tony Norris) got the Intercontinental Title in 1996. (And promptly gave an interview to McMahon where he decried rampant discrimination in McMahon's company, and the industry in general. Ron Simmons had obtained the WCW Title four years earlier.)

What the McMahon brothers did to squelch Johnson-Jeanette in 1912 leads me to wonder if their descendants continue to carry on a family tradition now over a century old. The success of performers of African descent in that business has lagged far behind the success of such athletes in many competitive sports. (Of course I realize we're not discussing a competitive sport here, and market forces are something of a consideration, but it seems to me that a world title could have been credibly placed on Bobo Brazil or Ernie Ladd decades before Simmons got the honor of being the first.)
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Interesting stuff D, I never made the family connection .

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