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Jess Willard - Heavyweight Champion of the World (1915-1919)

English · Paperback / Softback

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Jess Willard, the "Pottawatomie Giant," won the heavyweight title in 1915 with his defeat of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. At 6 feet, 6 inches and 240 pounds, Willard was considered unbeatable in his day. He nonetheless lost to Jack Dempsey in 1919 in one of the most brutally one-sided contests in fistic history. Willard later made an initially successful comeback but was defeated by Luis Firpo in 1923 and retired from the ring. He died in 1968, largely forgotten by the boxing public. Featuring photographs from the Willard family archives, this first full-length biography provides a detailed portrait of one of America's boxing greats.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Tracy Callis

Preface

¿1.¿The Defeat of Jack Johnson and the Triumph

the Great White Hope

¿2.¿Growing Up in Kansas and Boxing in Oklahoma

¿3.¿The White Hope Era (1911-1912)

¿4.¿1913: A Year of Consequences

¿5.¿1914: The Rise of Willard and the Destruction

Championship Boxing in California

¿6.¿Show Business

¿7.¿Back to the Ring: 1915-1916

¿8.¿The World War and Fred Fulton

¿9.¿1919 and the Battle with Jack Dempsey

10.¿Jess Willard Returns

11.¿Final Thoughts

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author










Arly Allen was president of Allen Press, Inc., a scholarly printer and publisher for many years until his retirement in 1993. He then began research on the early history of boxing and has published a number of articles on boxing. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Product details

Authors Arly Allen, James Willard Mace
Publisher McFarland
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.12.2016
 
EAN 9781476664446
ISBN 978-1-4766-6444-6
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 178 mm x 254 mm x 16 mm
Weight 569 g
Subject Guides > Sport > Martial arts, self-defence

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