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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 impressive upper torso.
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.
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 ...
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...
4 de mar. de 2022 · It was terrible that Langford met such a fate, yet Sam himself never once felt sorry for himself; nor did he ever stop smiling. He died in a Cambridge, Massachusetts nursing home, this at age 72 ...
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.
9 de jul. de 2023 · Sam Langford was a boxing sensation and superstar, without the modern day fairy dust topping. In a career that spanned over 300 fights in 23 years, battling in five weight divisions, yet standing only a fraction taller than Manny Pacquiao and often heavily outweighed, Langford was an enigma with his destructive power and ring-craft.
