Published On Dec 4, 2022
Because the brutality of Dempsey's win over Jess Willard in July, 1919, the public today assumes that the champion Willard was a less than formidable opponent.
That is an incorrect assumption. In fact, Willard had earlier killed an opponent with a pile driver uppercut. Dempsey's father feared the same could happen to his son.
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