Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al
Jack Johnson must have been hard to market as he was champ in a time when blacks were hated and everybody wanted him to loose. thankfully things have moved on from then
I was thinking of starting a thread on most marketable champs and thought Johnson would have been very marketable considering the times. No one wanted to see that guy succeed back then and would seem easy to get fights for him so some white guy could knock his block off Not to mention how much animosity he created by running around with white women and the establishment hating that. Lots of people gunning for him and wanting him gone, so very marketable IMO, unless I'm missing something{which isn't unusual for me}