Sam Langford highlights

Contains a clip of Langford in a fight with an unidentified fighter and then another one with Jim Flynn

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• Flynn

[charmaine118]

It is amazing how many people really appreciated my grandfather's boxing style. My father and half brother are/were both boxers as well. Ironically I don't like boxing at all LOL. Maybe because I am a female, but thanks to all who leave the nice comments. For the skeptics who leave somments about me NOT being related to him, well, it doesn't bother me, because I know the truth.

[Soulblackman]

I rate langford up there with Ali, Johnson, Jeffries, Dempsey and Marciano

[Brownpride480]

@dal6828 yeah but when it comes to Heavyweights, I wasn't really trying to exaggerate but I mean the undisciplined and fat heavyweights like Chris Arreola or blown up Light Heavyweights like Tomasz Adamek losing badly to Langford but Langford would still lose to the the Klitschko brothers not only because of size advantage but because the two brothers have underrated skills.

[dal6828]

I agree with Brownpride480'scomments, except that I think at his height and weight he couldn't compete with today's top heavyweights (compared with the heavyweight's relatively smaller size back then), and the advanced training and nutrition they have available now How would he fare against Ali, Joe Frazier, Joe Louis, or Marciano? But he could dominate the middleweight/super-middleweigh­t divisions today, maybe even light heavyweight. One of the classic greats of all time.

[Brownpride480]

I believe Langford would of killed many boxers if he were fighting right now in the Mayweather-Pacquiao era that's how great and underrated this boxer is. Too bad he was never able to win a title from any weight classes because of his race and the era he was in. Hell I think he would of even beat today's heavyweights too regardless of his size but he's one of the toughest small boxers along with Dwight Muhammad Qawi IMO.

[connymat]

Its amazing that he was a heavyweight and only 5`6...

[Freddie1980]

OMG - @ "It is amazing how many people really appreciated my grandfather's boxing style" - Jesus Christ you people believe anything.

[SuperFlySapo]

Jack Johnson said himself he would not want to fight Langford, once did in the ring and once in a bar room cellar, said both times that Langford was unlike any fighter he himself faced, what a timeless fighter, what grace, power, skill. OOOhhhh how i wish i lived then. but hey i wouldnt have all this old time footage to marvel at. god bless.

[SonnyAMan]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the first fight clip is his fight against Bill Lang...1911.

[dempsey981]

i read[maybe here]a thing about this mans record,you see he fought an amazing number of fights with THE SAME FIGHTERS.I dont have the data in front of me but it seems like he had 50 or 60 fights with 5 guys,maybe even more fights.the other thing i noticed is that the majority of his fights were in Boston Ma..he didnt get on the road as many boxers did.i wonder how it feels to fight the same man 10,12,13 times?i have no idea how common this was back then?

[MERITMAN2008]

@charmaine118 Sam Langford my favorite fighter