What was the purse between Jack Johnson vs Jim Battling Johnson in 1913?

All that really proves is there wasn't much interest in seeing Johnson defend against a black journeyman. Judging by the way the Fireman Jim fight tanked, there wasn't much interest in seeing him defend against a white journeyman either.

 

Johnson needed a white challenger to draw big.Curley had persuaded himself that Flynn would be a credible opponent after he beat Morris ,but Johnson had already outclassed the Fireman in a previous match.
You can't blame Jack for taking the easy money!

 

But Flynn was a white challenger and it didn't draw big. They didn't even make enough to cover Johnson's purse. It proved Johnson couldn't just fight any white guy and expect the fight to be a hit. It had to be someone credible or already popular in their own right. I don't blame Jack for taking that fight, btw. $30,000 to beat up a guy you've already beaten up once. Nice work if you can get it.

 

He had already thrashed Flynn.

 

It' s in Unforgivable Blackness look it up for yourself.
Page 354

 

Johnson was 35 years old and had been out of the ring for a year and a half when he defended against Jim Johnson,he broke his radius bone in the third round and fought virtually one handed for the next 7.
Unlike your hero Vitali who quit cold with a damaged rotator cuff when in front and heavily outweighing his last minute substitute opponent the punchless Chris Byrd
Johnson to fight McCarty [no H,] he telegrammed Tommy Burns ,who was promoting in Canada, suggesting he defend his title against McCarty there.Burns turned thumbs down on the deal because he was the man behind Pelkey and he wanted to promote a fight between them .He realised Johnson would be a heavy favourite to beat both and didn't want his golden goose eliminated.Burns statement of refusal is in Pollacks book,you know the book? The one you haven't read!lol
This is easily verifiable for anyone who wants the truth, of course that excludes yourself!lol

Smith was only a viable contender for around 14 months, check out his record and his results. You keep pushing the knockdown of Johnson by Smith in a spar,its a broken record, but it obviously gives you comfort!lol
And by Christ you sure have tried your best to get the maximum mileage out of it!
ps Q . Why didnt Marciano defend against Toxie Hall?
Hall knocked him down in sparring
Q.Why didn;t Tyson defend against Greg Page?
Page knocked him down in sparring.
Q.Why didn't Vitali Klitschko defend against Travis Walker and Raphael Butler .
Both knocked him down in sparring.

You're really kind of sad ,do you know that?

 

I would take any book, where the author had researched the topic in detail, over Boxrec.

Boxrec researchers have such a broad task, that they research individual topics, in the most superficial way.

They do a good job, but that is the best that they can do.

A capable researcher, who researches a topic for its own sake, will inevitably better them by a large margin.

You could stand to read a few of Adam's books to be honest!

 

This thread goes to prove that Classic Battles can be fought over well worn turf.

Bravo!

 

He needs to ask himself what finding out the size of the purse will do for him?If it was a good sized one he would have an argument that Johnson could draw good money fighting an average black challenger and it would prove,promoters Coffroth,Rickard and Curley were wrong when they said
" two blacks fighting for the heavyweight title won't draw flies".

 

Page 354, as I told you in a previous post, you dumb ****!
Langford and Jeannette fought for the French version of the title the next day. What were their purses?