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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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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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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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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Sullivan Kostya Tszyu Tim Tszyu Barbados Joe Walcott Deontay Wilder Harry Wills Zhilei Zhang The boxer-puncher possesses many of the qualities of the...
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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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(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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his prime a match for any of 'em." Uzcudun also "retired" the famed Harry Wills, when he stopped him in four rounds on July 13, 1927. The tough and durable...
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Williams Holman Williams Ike Williams Jeremy Williams Paul Williams Harry Wills Krzysztof Wlodarczyk Paea Wolfgramm Pongsaklek Wonjongkam Bruce Woodcock...
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