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26 de ene. de 2022 · Join Rainy Day Boxing for an in depth career tribute to arguably the best fighter pound for pound of all time, the ‘Boston Tar Baby’, Sam Langford.Narrated b...
ref: Walter Hughes. "Sam Langford, Boston Tar Baby, won a referee's decision over Jeff Clark, Missouri ghost, in fifteen rounds of fast milling here last night. Referee Walter Hughes, who gave the decision, was apparently off, for (Clark) scored the only knockdown of the bout in the sixth and led on points in eight of the fifteen rounds.
According to the Lowell Sun Langford did not deserve a draw, reporting that 'Clark worked like a machine well oiled and adjusted for speed, while Sam performed like e ship without a rudder.' Clark was a substitute for Battling Jim Johnson, who was in a Boston Hospital suffering from Spanish influenza. Because of the influenza, which would prove fatal to Johnson, no boxing programs had been ...
Early Life. Sam Langford was born on 4 March 1886 in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, a small rural community settled by Black loyalists and former slaves, including Langford’s grandfather, William, who fled to Digby County, Nova Scotia (see Black Canadians). Langford’s mother died when he was 12 years of age, and a physically abusive father drove him to leave home.
14 de may. de 2008 · By 1944, Langford was blind, all but forgotten and living in poverty in a dingy tenement in Harlem, N.Y. In January of that year, sportswriter Al Laney of the New York Herald Tribune decided to write a story about Langford, a great boxer who had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. The search proved futile for quite a while.
21 de ene. de 2007 · Sam Langford was one of the greatest fighters in boxing history. Born in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia on March 4, 1886, the 5’ 7” dynamo migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, and engaged in close to 300 officially-recorded professional contests from 1902 to 1926. He was an exceptionally courageous and intelligent fighter with long arms and an ...
Samuel "Sam" E. Langford (4 de Março de 1883 – 12 de janeiro de 1956) foi um boxeador Canadense que se destacou na primeira parte do século 20. Chamado de "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows (O Grande lutador que ninguém conhece)" pela ESPN, Muitos historiadores do boxe consideram Langford como um, se não, o maior lutador de todos os tempos.
