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Jess Willard Heavyweight Champion of the World

Jess Willard Heavyweight Champion of the World by Arly Allen BOOK REVIEW By Kelly Nicholson Near the end of 1908, the sporting world suffered trauma when a 30-year old black ex-stevedore named John Arthur “Jack” Johnson lifted boxing’s heavyweight championship from Tommy Burns in the remote venue of Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, Australia. Johnson’s sass,

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Tough Little Specimens of the Light Weight Order: The Establishment of Lightweight Prize-Fighting in the United States during the 1850s

Tough Little Specimens of the Light Weight Order: The Establishment of Lightweight Prize-Fighting in the United States during the 1850s by Hunter M. Claypatch Hunter M. Claypatch recently finished an article on lightweight prize-fighting in the United States during the 1850s.  The article contains significant, and previously unpublished information, on this early era of lightweight

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