April 5. New Boxing Heavyweight Champion crowned, 1915.

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April 5, 1915 - New Boxing Heavyweight Champion crowned, as challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in a bout in Cuba.• Full figure photographic portrait of Jess Willard in 1913.

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