Best known as the "Great White Hope" who came out of retirement to lose to Jack Johnson in a second heavyweight title bid, Jeffries went on a tour of exhibition bouts around the U.K., ahead of his first defense. That came against Tom Sharkey in a rematch. Jeffries made seven more successful defenses before he retired in 1905. Five years later, in 1910, he returned to fight one last time, a 15th-round TKO defeat to Johnson in what was promoted as the "fight of the century."