Billed as the "Fight of the Century", reigning champion Jack Johnson takes on former champion James J. Jeffries in a gruelling 15-round beatdown.
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There are moving pictures that record sport; then there is this 8-minute nitrate earthquake that obliterated an entire social order one jab at a time. When the Edison crew cranked their tripod on that scalding Independence Day, they thought they were simply trapping two titans inside a roped square. Instead they bottl...
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" There are moving pictures that record sport; then there is this 8-minute nitrate earthquake that obliterated an entire social order one jab at a time. When the Edison crew cranked their tripod on that scalding Independence Day, they thought they were simply trapping two titans inside a roped square. Instead they bottled lightning: Jack Johnson—genial, cigar-bright smile, the most hated and adored athlete on the planet—versus James Jeffries, the farmer-strong colossus coaxed out of pork-belly re..."
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