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Ok, here's one to start you off.........

 

Fairly easy this, which fight was the first to gross a $1million gate?

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The answer as no one is guessing is Harry Wills :)

 

He held the World Coloured Heavyweight Championship beating the likes of Sam McVea, Joe Jeanette and Sam Langford.

 

He lost his title to Langford on the 11th February 1916 and was due too get married the next day but his proposed wife Edna Jones committed suicide 3 hours before the ceremony.

 

At his peak he lost only once in 50 fights.

He had 100 fights over 21 years.

 

When people make all-time lists Dempsey gets included but fighters like Langford and Wills are ignored because they supposedly never were Heavyweight Champ.

It's interesting that Wills beat 2 fighters who then went on too beat Dempsey. Willie Meehan a white fighter lost too Wills then went onto beat Dempsey twice.

Infact after Wills lost to Langford and his fiance committed suicide, Wills fought and beat John Lester Johnson a month later-in Lester's next bout he gave Dempsey a sound beating.

Dempsey did sign to fight Wills when Wills was 35/36 and on the decline but Dempsey's promoter/managers Kearns and Rickard pulled the plug.

They even made Wills fight leading contender Luis Firpo for the right to fight Jack Dempsey and Wills won even though he'd seen better days.

 

Harry Wills made 32 defences.

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