Jess Willard v Harry Wills

Unforgiven · Feb 25, 2010

Wow, the British pathe archive site is excellent. I've never seen a lot of this footage before. Firpo :

[url]http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=20143[/url]

janitor · Feb 25, 2010

Seamus said: ↑

Great stuff but Bill Tate was not remotely in the class of Willard.

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I think that when you get into it, he was a lot closer to the level of Willard than people today think.

This match-up still has me perplexed, though. Willard's achilles heal was fast, smaller fighters, which Wills was neither. On film evidence, I am far more impressed with Willard-Moran and Willard-Johnson than the scant evidence of Wills, but there is so little of Wills and none in his prime.

My head says Wills takes this, my gut says Willard... prime for prime. How's that for fence-sitting?

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You are sure to get splinters in your arse.
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