One hundred years ago — on July 4, 1919 — Jack Dempsey battered Jess Willard over three brutal rounds to claim the heavyweight championship of the world. The world was very different then.

Challenger Jack Dempsey is five inches shorter and 58 pounds lighter than the 6-foot-6, 245-pound heavyweight champion, Jess Willard. But under the broiling sun in Toledo, Ohio, David conquers ...

Jack Dempsey went to bed on the night of July 4, 1919, after knocking out Jess Willard to claim the heavyweight championship of the world and dreamed about the fight. Except in Dempsey's dream ...

JULY 4, 1919 DEMPSEY IS CHAMP TOLEDO -- Jack Dempsey is the new heavyweight champion of the world. It took him only three rounds this afternoon for him to deal out to Jess Willard the worst ...

When Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard took to the ring in Toledo in July of 1919 for the heavyweight championship, the event was a "Superbowl" of boxing at the time.

Toledo hosted the heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard in 1919. Historian Tedd Long explained what happened at the fight that was billed as the match of the century. C ...

IN HIS DISTURBING post-fight interview after he stopped Lou Savarese in 38 seconds, Mike Tyson compared his ferociousness with that of Jack Dempsey. Like many of us, Tyson has seen that July 4 ...