Boxing athlete Jess Willard

Jess Willard

Living place: Kansas

Birthday: 29-12-1881

Global rank: #49991

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Who is Boxing athlete Jess Willard?
6'6", 270-pound heavyweight champion, nicknamed 'Pottawatomie Giant' and 'The Great White Hope.' He compiled a 26-6-1 career record.
After holding the heavyweight title for four years, he lost it to Jack Dempsey in a brutal bone-breaking match in which he was knocked down seven times in the first round.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He worked as a young adult cowboy.

Family life info

He married his childhood friend Harriet Evans.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Boxing athlete Jess Willard?
Jack Dempsey is the only boxer to ever knock him down.

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When was Boxing athlete Jess Willard born?
Jess Willard was born in 29-12-1881, death year is , at the age of 143.
Where is Boxing athlete Jess Willard's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jess Willard was born in Kansas, . is a Boxing athlete, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Jess Willard's global rank is 49991 and whose rank is 154 in list of famous Boxing athlete.
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Events in 1881 and 29-12

Birthday Jess Willard (29-12) in history

  • Day 29-12 year 1170: By order of King Henry II, four magicians had murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Day 29-12 year 1845: Texas became the 28th state in the United States.
  • Day 29-12 year 1851: The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston.
  • Day 29-12 year 1890: The last major battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee Creek, took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred.
  • Day 29-12 year 1937: The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.
  • Day 29-12 year 1940: During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.
  • Day 29-12 year 1989: Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
  • Day 29-12 year 1996: A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in Guatemala.
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