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Samuel "Sam" E. Langford (4. marts 1883 - 12. januar 1956) var en farvet canadisk bokser, der boksede i begyndelsen af det forrige århundrede. Han er af den amerikanske sports TV-kanal ESPN blevet betegnet som "Den største bokser, som næsten ingen har hørt om", [2] og er af boksemagasinet The Ring placeret som nr. 2 på listen over de mest hårdtslående boksere gennem tiderne. [3]
Born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, probably on March 4, 1885, he spent much of his career fighting out of Boston earning him the nicknames the Boston Terror,the Boston Bonecrusher or more commonly the Boston Tar Baby. Langford’s record is a matter of some confusion but it can be said that he had at least 293 fights, winning at least 167, 117 by ...
Sam Langford (* 4.März 1883 in Waymouth Falls, Digby County, Kanada; † 12. Januar 1956 in Cambridge) war ein kanadischer Boxer und einer der besten Boxer der ersten Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts.Er kämpfte in den USA unter dem Namen Boston Tar Baby.Obwohl er nie um eine Weltmeisterschaft boxte, wurde er 1955 als erster titelloser Boxer in die Hall of Fame gewählt.
Sam Langford, a black boxer, was one of the best fighters never to have held a world title. Born in Weymouth Falls, he moved to Boston, where his skills were soon recognized. Langford was not a big man, but proved to be one of the most punishing punchers in boxing history. Billed as the " Boston Tar Baby" by his promoters, he spent his career ...
Standing no more than 5' 7" tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In 1951, the great featherweight champion Abe Attell was asked if Sugar Ray Robinson was the best of all time, either as a welterweight or middleweight. He named Stanley Ketchel as the greatest welterweight he'd ever seen and said that, as for the middleweights, he'd take Sam Langford, "the greatest ...
Sam Langford was born in March in 1883, ’84, ’85, or ’86 (there are conflicting records) in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia. He was a world-class boxer who became famous as “The Boston Tar-Baby”. Langford fought his first professional bout at age 16 and continued to fight professionally from 1902 to 1923.
5 de ago. de 2019 · 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 ...
