Certainly, few imagined that it would come in the form of the hulking Jess Willard ... before meeting Jack Dempsey in Toledo, Ohio, on July 4, 1919. Dempsey knocked down Willard seven times ...

Jack Dempsey was known to hum as he constantly ... 245-pound champion, Jess Willard. But on July 4, 1919, under the broiling sun in Toledo, Ohio, Dempsey broke Willard's jaw with one of his ...

Jack-Rozicki, for the WBC cruiserweight ... became obsessed with Dempsey as a teenager. Dempsey’s violent stoppage of the enormous Jess Willard on YouTube is ingrained in Rozicki’s head.