The boxing film that was banned around the world
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In 1910, boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson defeated Jim Jeffries in the "Battle of the Century," and the nation erupted.
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On December 26, 1908, American boxer Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, after defeating defending champion Tommy Burns in a title fight in Sydney, Australia. Black fighters were typically denied the chance to win the heavyweight title, a de-facto line of segregation that was known as “the color line.” So when Burns accepted Johnson’s challenge and lost, the film that was distributed around the fight proved controversial.
The white boxing world set out to find a white heavyweight to beat Johnson and take back the title. That white fighter ended up being James Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion who had retired undefeated.
Their fight, hyped as the “Battle of the Century,” took place in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910, in front of 20,000 mostly-white spectators and nine motion picture cameras. Throughout the nation, many thousands more listened to live telegram bulletins of each round. Johnson beat Jeffries easily, and, as a result, racist mob violence broke out across the country, and Black Americans celebrating Johnson’s win were attacked, and some were killed.
The film of the fight became notorious worldwide and was the most talked-about motion picture of its time. Johnson lost the heavyweight title in 1915 after successfully defending it eight times, but remained an inspiration for many fighters to come.
Further reading:
Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, by Dan Streible
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520250758/fight-pictures
Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship, by Barak Orbach
digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol21/iss2/3/
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line, by Theresa Runstedtler
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280113/jack-johnson-rebel-sojourner
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And now just take a look at MLB Baseball -> black kids are pushed out for this very reason. White people do not want white men to have to compete fairly in this country. Nothing has changed in athletics in America.
White folks tend to try to erase black folks' achievements. 🤔
Imagine how shity mindset was USA
I love this... History
Race doen't matter. Love one an other. No one choose to be born in certain community. God is the master of all.
Miles Davis did a marvelous rendition to this man. What a genius he was!
White were unable to digest the black supremacy in boxing .
5:02 too bad ali and Frazier took that title
5:02 too bad ali and Frazier took that title
This white chick really loves telling this story doesn't she🤔🤨
The media did have a field day with their titles!!
Been on this
Francis Ngannou 🇨🇲
You guys are busy killing yourself here over what happened some 100yrs back boxing greatness doesn't have anything to do with race people like jack are one of a kind I read about the dude some 10yrs back and someone in America is complaining about not knowing the story while am from Nigeria I guess it's Because I've always loved boxing as a kid and never had the opportunity. So people stop arguing and learn your history fellows.
OH, White people, why are you so scared?
Read Unforgivable Blackness !
Lol this country is sumn else man
weak people always aim for racism .
Our place is from the begining, we are kings and queen of this earth and we are educated so no more whitewash of the truth, come fist to fist look at Mike yson, usian bolt, Olando Morage kings of the earth, knowledge is power
It such a shame we still see such racism today.America great country but very very bad history
Jim Jeffries.....The Great White HopeLESS......
That motion picture is definitely 'moving'. Away from the ridiculous vanity that is hurt by it.
Wait, why was a fight between a Canadian and an American fought in Australia? Why fight in a country was probably a month or two's voyage from both fighters homeland when one of them could have taken a day or some to drive to the others country?
I NEED JOHNSON'S MANAGEMENT
The original statement, " Down goes Frazier !! "
I don't know why they ban that boxing match. Old Retired white boxer went up again young black boxer in is prime and lasted 15 rounds..
It's only one human race
The secret to Johnson’s success is his breakfast routine of banana pancakes
Glad real history is still being circulated still
there is no such thing as white supremacy.! Hmmmpft#@#$*!^/##!!!!
Lol the supreme race cant handle a lil sports defeat.
Lol at the white fragility of the 19th century
Why in the thumbnail it looks like the dude is fully naked only wearing a pair of boxing gloves & a long pair of socks.
Jack dempsey smashed Johnson’s face up badly not that long after
Travis Hylton
4 hari yang lalu
they never met
"He tooook our jawbs!! "
Imagine Tyson in his prime would be sent back in those days. He'd be punching out "champions" left and right. Ooof :)
Is it true that Jack Johnson had 10 inch wrists?
💙
Some of those trunks are quite short, huh? Lol.... I can see your cheeks!! 🎶
They need to make a Netflix series about jack johnson
Jack Johnson was more audacious than Muhammad Ali. No athlete has ever caused such a world stir as Jack Johnson.
That is so awesome! Now I wanna catch this movie.
Look out America blacks may take ur country the hard way
Stuff you should learn in school
Johnson was the One punch man of real life, powerful and yet everyone underestimated/hated him.
Fitzsimmons at 3:03 went from 160 all the way to heavyweight and actually won the heavyweight title weighing 160 pounds. A black boxer by the name of Sam Langford went from 130 to heavyweight.
Black guy: wins world title Racists: [Pikachu face] ('°○°`)! *You can't do that!*
I never knew about this man, Mr. Jack Johnson everyone around the world will remember your name again, sir.
President Trump pardoned him...
He was a certified boyo he got that burns fight by stalking burns calling him out for a fight 😂😂
Wow,the Vox featured "Boxing"..no pun intended
He was the best fighter or boxer ever lived!!!
Shameful
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Black is King ❤👏
Ferreira Linus
5 hari yang lalu
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'd love to see a match between Jeff-Johnson and the great Muhammad Ali.
Vox will slap a copyright claim on anyone who replays this without their permission. Racists!
Swapnil Iqbal
10 hari yang lalu
?
So...this thing called "great whyte hype" has been going on for centuries!!! Hmmm... how interesting!😉😂😂😂
Jack lost to another white dude after that tho
Underrated boxer, i never heard about him until now, i think they should make a new movie about him.
charli el rogers
9 hari yang lalu
It was Joe Gans 1st he fought 42 rounds, Then it Was Jack Johnson! Yeaaaaaaaa💯🙌🏾💪🏾✊🏾👏🏾🤙🏾😉❤
Congratulations Champ
Who the f cares, Boxing isn't a real sport. It is a "promotion" .
Swapnil Iqbal
10 hari yang lalu
Please show me a sport that is not promoted.
I despise racists and racism. Jack Johnson was the superior fighter for many years. To prove otherwise, all you had to do was to challenge and defeat him. No race was mentioned in my statement.
The hatred runs so deep for black folks black people not even related to the Johnson-Jeffries fight were killed for it. It isn’t much different a century later.
I am black...😂😂😂😂
The police actually intervened in a major heavy weight fight because the white man was getting slaughtered in front of the world. ...lol I never knew that wow!!!
Banned by who and who is ‘they?’ Schmucks
Swapnil Iqbal
10 hari yang lalu
@Shawn Patrick thats why it was banned in the us
Shawn Patrick
10 hari yang lalu
@Swapnil Iqbal The us Congress doesn’t control the world although they think they do
Swapnil Iqbal
10 hari yang lalu
Congress
And when he did loose it had TOOK A DIVE FOR PAY
I love Jack Johnson
100 years later......I'm white and never heard of him. I'm a musician.....can you imagine music without the influence of blacks.....or any other race for that matter....
Anyone else see a parallel with Pacquiao vs Horn? How Horn won inspite of a beating. Although not black against white but generally any other race against them.
Whites haven't changed that much have they? Why so petty why such envy? Why such hatred?
Sorry what? 15th round? hahaha
2:49-2:58 😂 cause they know we win!
"burns found a blagk master" what
100 years later in 2012 the first black president gets re-elected..........God bless Johnson
It would have been Genocide had Obama won the elections in 1912
They still cannot accept Raphael Warnock won and now they are changing electoral rules
@
The video is correct -- as soon as there were a string of black heavyweight champions, all notions of white supremacy have completely disappeared.... ooops
Save yourself all the whitewashed drivel in this and simply go watch the documentary "Unforgivable Blackness : The Jack Johnson Story" narrated by Wesley Snipes.
I used to work at an architect’s office in Melbourne with an old quantity surveyor who was at the fight in Rushcutters Bay Sydney as a 10 year old......his Dad took him. He was blown away.....
I much hate can you have foe a person tht thy made a virus to try drop the economy number
🥊True Legend... What a man 👏
whats changed
Does this mean colored people are better?
Cars for Kids
5 hari yang lalu
No? It means that poc can do the same a white people
LOL They showed him getting beat down in theaters? Lol
Because USA is a racist state😂😂 that china will conquer USA lol😂😂
Danny'sDungareeDanceoff
13 hari yang lalu
😐China is racist too, China is overall worse
A woman would know?
P pp
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Nobody _
7 hari yang lalu
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Nana Li
14 hari yang lalu
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They stopd the punch. So we dont knw all this for sure.
The only thing disturbing... is their underwear
Cool. Now, let's make an Ip Man-style film out of this and I'm happy.
When I was a teenager, I saw a black man kissing a beautiful white woman- and I was shocked. Then ten years had passed, I realized that I was brought up to think like that. And subsequently, I began to dispised the people that convinced me to behave like that, and I am not white nor black.
Assume!!!!!!
i've never understood why everyone else must suffer for white people to feel good about themselves. it's like an inherent illness that just won't go away.
Lucy Wynn
6 hari yang lalu
Well said !
Yet here we are in the 21st century and White supremacy is live and kicking...a bad habit.
A man won ! Better fighter won ! New World Champ ! An American won !
I'm a black. A proud black at that.... Hate my color, I don't care.... I refuse to be a racist