I can remeber the old timers talking about Joe Louis and you would never hear a bad word about him even among some quite racist individuals. No matter how predjidiced the person they always seemed to defend Joe Louis. That would tell you something about how far the black fighter had come on his road to acceptence.
But now I am not claiming that Joe Louis would have been the first popular black fighter, just the most notable one. Perhaps their were some others before him who through their skill, or style, or charisma, or a combination of all of those traits were able to gain a measure of popularity.
First black fighter to gain acceptence with white fight fans
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First black fighter to gain acceptence with white fight fans
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Re: White Fans Accepting Black Fighters
A lot of white boxing fans liked Peter Jackson.
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Because before the Marquess of Queensberry rules, and only one champion, it didn't really matter. Once boxing was officially organised and controlled, the whites just couldn't accept black domination.kick asner wrote:Question. If black fighters were popular that far back than why were so many black fighters denied a title shot throughout the twentyeth century?
Yes, he also used to do somersaults after winning fights... try getting hold of 'the pussycat of prizefighting' seems that Flowers death may have been foul play as well as his manager was up to his neck in debt and had Flowers house mortgaged in his own name...Decagon wrote:Is he the one who did that little nip-up when he got knocked down? I remember reading about it. Also, a lot of Flowers's fame came from beating Greb twice.silkov wrote:Tiger Flowers was very popular in the 20s...