JESS WILLARD REED Jess Willard Reed passed away September 27, 2009, at Enloe Hospital in Chico, at the age of 87. He was born February 5, 1922 in Gordon, Nebraska to Edward and Daisy Reed. The family ...

L. A. Firpo (“Argentine Ape”) knocked out Jess Willard (” Huge Anachronism of the Ring”) in eight rounds in Jersey City. Firpo received $110,000 as his share of the “gate”; Willard received $185,000.

JESS WILLARD ALEXANDER Known to family and friends as “J.W.”, “J”, and “Papa”, was born in Hockley, TX, February 23, 1916. He was the second of 7 children, born to Annie Ruth and Oscar Alexander Sr.

In this “GI Movie Weekly” from Fistic Film (likely from 1939), viewers are treated to the historic fight on 4 July 1919 in Toledo, OH, where young boxer Jack Dempsey faced off against the World ...

The crowd goes wild. The band breaks into a jubilant, drum-thumping march. The loser, a shave-headed Negro, is led from the ring, while speaking ruefully with a reporter. The winner, a white man, is ...