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    boxing historians consider Wills the most egregious victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions. Wills fought for over twenty years...
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    fellow black boxers Sam McVey, Battling Jim Johnson, Joe Jeanette and Harry Wills, who all experienced similar barriers in their fighting careers. Langford...
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  • and Coronation special) and Tom Durant-Pritchard (Series 3) as Prince Harry, Wills' immature, naive younger brother, who is often taken advantage of by...
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    Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt FRGS (9 April 1856, Paris – 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke...
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    Cyclone, he ranked alongside Jack Johnson, Joe Jeanette, Sam Langford, and Harry Wills as the top black heavyweights of their generation. All of them, except...
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  • (disambiguation) Garry Wills (b. 1934), American author and historian George Alfred Wills (1854–1928), President of Imperial Tobacco Harry Wills (1889–1958), American...
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  • Sam Langford (who beat Jeanette for the colored title) and the young Harry Wills (who was colored heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's...
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    frequency to top boxers such as Sam Langford, Joe Jeanette, Sam McVey, Harry Wills and Kid Norfolk. In spite of this, Jack Johnson, the first black world...
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    Sullivan Deontay Wilder Zhilei Zhang Sandy Saddler Barbados Joe Walcott Harry Wills The boxer-puncher possesses many of the qualities of the out-boxer: hand...
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    He won an important fight in 1926 over black heavyweight contender Harry Wills, but his first big year was 1927, when he defeated former light heavyweight...
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