Chunks of Cement? The Legendary Champions also shows the lean, hard, 24-year-old Jack Dempsey winning the title from Willard in one of the most savage beatings ever inflicted on a fighter.

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 ...