A powerful brute of a man who easily outclassed Johnson 's imposing stature .
Who may have been the heaviest and tallest man to contend for the heavyweight title to that point , Willard had killed a man with a single punch in the ring in 1913 .
A powerful brute of a man who easily outclassed Johnson 's imposing stature and who may have been the heaviest and tallest man to contend for the heavyweight title to that point , Willard had killed a man with a single punch in the ring in 1913 .