"He was a great guy and a great
fighter.  His record shows that.  
Anybody who stood up to the
likes of Jack Johnson and Sam
Langford as he did-and as often
as he did-had to be a great
fighter."
"It's a shame he never got a
chance at the heavyweight
championship."
"Once Jack Johnson won the
heavyweight title-he wanted no
part of Joe Jennette.  It wasn't
that way when Johnson was
hungry."         Lud Shahbazian
                          Hudson Dispatch
"Jack forgot about his old
friends after he became
champion and drew the color
line against his own people."   
                         Joe Jennette
"He was one of the greatest
fighters who ever laced on a
pair of gloves."
                          Eddie Borden
"Joe Jennette was the toughest
man I ever saw and Sam
Langford was the most
dangerous."    Jack Johnson
"There never was a fighter
who fought more gruelling
battles,  never a ring man
who went through a more
arduous ring campaign than
Joe Jennette. There never was
a fighter who had more
natural endurance, more
rawhide stamina and bulldog
courage than Joe Jennette
displayed in that great 49
round battle with Sam McVey
in Paris. I saw it and I should
know. In my mind that was
the greatest bout in ring
history."          Willie Lewis