Sorry gents, but I’m not getting into a running debate on this because it never goes anywhere.

My Mother knew Jess’s daughter at UCLA and he used to pick her up at the sorority. [2] He was of mostly English ancestry, which had been in North America since the colonial era. The 6’6 ½” and the 245-pound boxer was challenged by a smaller and lighter Jack Dempsey, who stands 6’1” and weighs only 187 pounds.

A friend found Jess Willard in the big arena and ensured that the dethroned heavyweight champion of the world got home safely. Our site saves small pieces of text information (cookies) on your device in order to deliver better content and for statistical purposes. His jaw was broken, as was his nose. The other thing one has to realize is that the men of Dempsey’s day, though leaner than today’s over-muscular behemoths, were tougher. He then drew a metal bolt from a cardbox, saying that Dempsey held the bolt in his hand, not within the glove but at the palm of it, attached to the thumb sideways, and used the bolt rather for cutting-and-slicing-like moves to inflict blood-spilling cuts and pain, relinquishing it just as the bout was stopped, and according to Willard, the bolt was found on the floor of the ring at the end of the fight and he kept it. “Willard was a sorry sight,” Jack said, when describing the last moments of the horror. His physical strength was so great that he was reputed to be able to kill a man with a single punch, which unfortunately proved to be a fact during his fight with Jack "Bull" Young in 1913, who was punched in the head and killed in the 9th round. In his prime, before he laid off, went to Hollywood and was afraid he would lose his vision like Greb and Tiger Flowers and countless others, he was one hard man.

He was known for his great strength and ability to absorb tremendous punishment, although today he is best known for his title loss to Jack Dempsey. Jess fought for two more rounds before retiring on his stool because of the injuries he received in the first round, relinquishing the title.At 6 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1.99 m) and 235 lb (107 kg), Willard was the tallest and the largest heavyweight champion in boxing history, until the 270 pounds (120 kg) Primo Carnera won the title on June 29, 1933, and the 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) Vitali Klitschko won the WBC title in 2004 and the 7 ft …

He returned again after suffering a stroke and died 12 hours later.[15]. “I couldn’t wait for the massacre to end. He had a devastating right-hand punch and a seemingly endless reserve of stamina and courage. JJ koed teeths out but his opponents got KOed from that ...as an example. Read Roger Kahn’s bio of Dempsey ” A Flame of Pure Fire”. That’s Boxing.

Not bad for a guy that would be a Cruiserweight today. Willard was knocked down for the first time in his career during the first round and another seven times before the round was over; some reports claim that he suffered broken ribs, shattered jaw, broken nose, four missing teeth, partial hearing loss in one ear along with numerous cuts and contusions, but these reports are highly disputable.

At age 37, Willard lost his title to Dempsey on July 4, 1919, in Toledo. One of his cheekbones had caved in. In 1919, when he was 37 years of age he lost the title in an extremely one sided loss by declining to come out for the fourth round against Jack Dempsey, who became a more celebrated champion. Johnson's claim of a "dive" gained momentum because most fans only saw a still photo of Johnson lying on the canvas shading his eyes from the broiling Cuban sun. Tyson was a front runner who could NOT fight on the inside. You have bricks in your gloves YOUR HANDS WILL BREAK.

His face was distorted by a broken cheekbone and he was having trouble holding his head up. Johnson found that he could not knock out the giant Willard, who fought as a counterpuncher, making Johnson do all the leading. Jess Willard (December 29, 1881 – December 15, 1968) was a world heavyweight boxing champion known as the Pottawatomie Giant. The flesh on his enormous limbs shook like custard.”. Great stuff as usual Mike. Thus the search for an explanation (“Dempsey’s gloves must have been loaded”) for such unprecedented damage.

My friend said Dempsey was hard as rock. All they did was train and fight, and thus, they were far better conditioned and a hell-of-a-lot tougher and could go far more rounds than today’s fighters. Dempsey was the first real combo puncher…so were people before him knocked teeth out and others broke ribs and others split this or that ....Jack Dempsey did ALL that in ONE fight since he was a combo puncher against a guy who was so tough that he did not get KOed ...just kept getting up and taking more damage.

Sure, Tyson could hit but he couldn’t take it when an opponent hit him back just as hard. He was becoming bloodier and he spat out a tooth. So the test conducted 50 years later is not dispositive in my view. “His face was swollen and bruised. His lips were badly cracked.

"I hadn't realized that my inner fury could do so much damage.". I think that’s why the intensity dropped after round 1. Doc Kearns was a liar and first class scoundrel. Although no paragon of athleticism, Willard was a capable fighter.

There is no evidence that Jack’s gloves were loaded. I don’t buy that Dempsey would have lost his punching power after one round. One of his cheekbones had caved in. They were truly great hitters, and the men they fought were a lot tougher and more skilled than any man Ali ever fought with the exception of Archie Moore, who was around fifty years old when he fought Ali. FranklinDallas-Heck yea!...which reminds me… those newspapers had editions that came out like three times a day and went for a penny a copy…or was it two pennies….I forget now!

His jaw was broken, as was his nose. Willard was knocked out in the eighth round, and then permanently retired from boxing. “The right side of his face was a pulp where the fists of the Indian brown boy from the Centennial state had been landing for nine minutes with fearful force.

Lou Stillman and Ray Arcel - to name just two - said to the end that they never saw a hitter of Dempsey’s power. Shortly after the fight Jack Johnson had actually accepted defeat gracefully saying "Willard was too much for me, I just didn't have it."[10]. The ol’ Manassa Mauler was the greatest—not Ali. Read Roger Kahn’s wonderful bio of Jack ” A Flame of Pure Fire”.

But even Jack, who gave every credit to the gameness of his opponents, couldn’t put a soft focus lens on the brutality of Toledo. Those men could hit. Whilst the bout was a clear mismatch, Dempsey was able to brutally beat and dethrone Willard in only three rounds. At one point Dempsey left the ring mistakenly thinking the fight was over, and under the rules could have been disqualified, but Willard had economised by not employing professional cornermen and they failed to insist on application of the regulations.

I hadn’t realized that my inner fury could do so much damage. I concluded…for my satisfaction at least, that Jess Willard was thrown under the bus on this , slightly grey page of boxing history, I was unaware that Willard / Dempsey and Willard / Firpo were scheduled for 12 rounds each (as indicated in the “recent fights” section above. This particular fight was a war…no question about it. In the fight, Willard was later reputed to have suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, and ribs, as well as losing several teeth. Johnson later acknowledged lying about the throwing the fight after footage of the fight was made widely available in the United States. Willard held the championship for more than four years. He was flecked with red from head to foot. None of which is to say this wasn’t a brutal and historic beating, which of course it was, but it seems that myth-making may have blurred our understanding of what happened.

Jess looked as if he had been hit by a speeding automobile. Some of you think Mike Tyson is the greatest. Prior to the Willard fight, Dempsey knocked out every top heavyweight- most in the first round. All sorts of colorful analogies were drawn as writers clattered away at their typewriters. It was probably the most popular sport, and in a Country where you had to be tough, boxing was part of growing up for anyone who wanted to be considered a man.

Smashed up, blinded and disoriented, big Jess was feeling his way along a fence in a vain attempt to find the exit. Willard and a dispute he had with Harry Houdini is the topic of Andy Duncan's Nebula Award nominated novella "The Pottawatomie Giant. here’s the way of it….Dempsey had bricks in his gloves…..and damned near killed Jess Willard. Entry for Willard's grave in Findagrave website (2019). Soon after the bout Willard began accusing Dempsey of using something with the effect of a knuckle duster. The famous beating that Manassa Jack administered to Willard in the searing heat of Toledo, Ohio, in the summer of 1919, remains the worst carnage that boxing has witnessed in the modern age.

Jess fought for two more rounds before retiring on his stool because of the injuries he received in the first round, relinquishing the title.At 6 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1.99 m) and 235 lb (107 kg), Willard was the tallest and the largest heavyweight champion in boxing history, until the 270 pounds (120 kg) Primo Carnera won the title on June 29, 1933, and the 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) Vitali Klitschko won the WBC title in 2004 and the 7 ft Nikolai Valuev won the WBA title in 2005.

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