Editing Jack Johnson (boxer) (section)

===Title loss===
[[File:Panorama of Willard - Johnson fight, Havana, Cuba.jpg|thumb|center|800px|A panorama of the Willard–Johnson fight, Havana, Cuba]]
On April 5, 1915, Johnson lost his title to [[Jess Willard]], a working cowboy from Kansas who started boxing when he was 27 years old. With a crowd of 25,000 at [[Oriental Park Racetrack]] in [[Havana, Cuba]], Johnson was knocked out in the 26th round of the scheduled 45 round fight. 

Johnson is said by many a year after the fight to have spread rumors that he took a [[Match fixing#History|dive]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/06/22/jack-and-the-game|title=As fugitive, loser, prisoner and failure, Jack Johnson – 06.22.59 com (1959-06-22). Retrieved on 2010-10-26.|work=SI.com|access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref> but Willard is widely regarded as having won the fight outright. Many people thought Johnson purposely threw the fight because Willard was white, in an effort to have his [[Mann Act]] charges dropped. Willard ironically responded, "If he was going to throw the fight, I wish he'd done it sooner. It was hotter than hell out there."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/608832?acl=834710632&imagelist=1|title=Jess Williard... Jack Johnson... – RareNewspapers.com|website=rarenewspapers.com|access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref>