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So, as you'll see, while he's
fighting Tommy Burns here,

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Jack Johnson talked
a lot of trash.

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And you'll see him just talking
to him while he's going on,

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and back then they used to call
trash talking mouth fighting,

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which makes more sense, right?

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So this is called
"Mouth Fighting."

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Sometimes the fight is over
before we even split the ropes.

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A fighter's glass jaw,
the cut of his costume,

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the absence of pretty
women in his entourage,

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all fair game for
the mouth fight.

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Never mothers or children, never
wives or crippled relatives,

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or women at all unless
they're sporting women.

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There is always something
else to talk about.

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A civilized mouth fight is
about making a fighter wild,

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and as soon as I can tell
he's listening, I know I won.

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Yellow fighters like Tommy
Burns want to tear out

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when the talk starts.

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You can see their knees
knocking as clearly

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as spoons in a vaudeville show.

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Others lose composure,
and that's when it's over.

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How is a fighter
supposed to think

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about defensing when he's
trying to get at me by whatever

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means necessary?

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That's why the mouth is the most
devastating weapon, and mine,

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mine shines to high heaven
every time I take a swing.

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