A real David v Goliath.WHEN Jack Dempsey battered Jess Willard Jess Willard (December 29, 1881 in Pottawatomie County, Kansas - December 15, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) was a world Heavyweight boxing champion. A working cowboy, he did not begin boxing until he was almost thirty years old. in Toledo, Ohio
Willard was the biggest man, at the time, ever to be heavyweight champion of the world. Dempsey was conceding five inches in height and 58 pounds in weight and very few boxing judges gave him much chance against the giant from Kansas. In the first round Dempsey knocked Willard to the canvas seven times, and the fight was over after three rounds. After the fight was stopped a reporter commented Willard's face "looked as if it had been mangled in a threshing threshing or thrashing, separation of grain from the stalk on which it grows and from the chaff or pod that covers it. The first known method was by striking the reaped ears of grain with a flail. machine". So, Saturday's bout in Nuremburg between David Haye Boxing career David Haye aka "Hayemaker" was born 13 October 1980 and is a British boxer who fights in the Cruiserweight division. Based in Bermondsey, England, Haye started out as an amateur winning a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 2001 World and Nikolai Valuev Nikolai Sergejevitsch Valuev (Russian: Николай Валуев; born August 21, 1973), was the first Russian professional heavyweight boxing champion and the former holder of , good theatre as it was, and hyped at a ferocious rate by cable TV dollars, cannot be counted as one of the great examples of David v Goliath. That happened 90 years ago in Toledo, and as long as there are fans of the sweet science, it will still be remembered when Saturday's entertainment is long forgotten. |
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