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Ninety Year Ago Today...
Posted: 05 Apr 2005, 02:56
by Brutu
NewsFlash....
The Oriental Race Track
Havana ,Cuba
April.05.1915
....Challenger Jess Willard knocks out champion Jack Johnson in the 26th round
for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the World.
no mention
Posted: 19 Apr 2005, 04:52
by Brutu
Yes,its true,people still act like Jack Johnson is forgotten,but seems to me it is Jess Willard who is being delibertly ignored.
Did you see Willard snap Johnson's head back with his big jab continiouslly
during that fight?.Some people still trying to influecence thoughts of others that Willard was nothing,but he sure looked like a big bad azz in the 1915 fight.
Willard looked ill in the 1919 fight with Jack Dempsey,as if he even had trouble standing,maybe he had a condidtion,who knows?just wasnt the same Willard 4 years earlier.
PS E-mail ESPN especially Friday Night Fights and demand why they did not recognize the 90th anniversary of Jess Willard winning the championship of the World.