Getting beaten up by a two-bit thug ( a black one at that) had to be extremely embarrassing for an ego-maniac like John Gotti. After all, Gotti was the Dapper Don, and this guy Johnson, well, he was a nobody. Gotti was a millionaire, a rogue who had his picture on the cover of Time magazine, a guy who had several books written about him. Johnson was probably a low-life street urchin living in roach infested crack houses. It was like the CEO of crime getting beaten up by a neighborhood tough!