Heavyweight Title Fight
On July 5, 1905, Root fought Marvin Hart for the vacant world heavyweight championship. The former champion, Jim Jeffries, had retired and declared that Hart and Root were the two top heavyweights. Jeffries refereed the fight to name the new champion, which Hart won by a twelfth-round knockout.
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