Jess Willard vs Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Championship, April 5, 1915

One hundred years ago this month, the World Heavyweight Championship changed hands. On the afternoon of April 5, 1915, for over an hour and a half, champion and challenger battled through 25 threeminute rounds in 100+ degree heat in a ring standing at the finish line at the Oriental Race Track in Havana, Cuba. The pace of the fight was more like a baseball game than a boxing match, but it lacked neither drama nor excitement. By the end of the contest, the 37yearold champion Jack Johnson had thrown e