Sam Langford@175lbs - what did he do there?

Very little.

 

Yeah, he really su-ked ...

 

I couldn't find a single fight on boxrec that matched that criteria. So no clue. I'm sure he had about 50 fights that matched that though. He knocked out Fireman Jim Flynn when the weights were 160/175 in one round.

 

Just read Clay Moyle's biography of Sam Langford, a book I recommend to anyone on ESB. A truly, great "giant killer" was Tham and a decent human being. Truly one of the immortals...

 

Well he fought half his career at 180 and dominated every heavyweight that would dare fight him excluding Wills. I'm sure he could have done the same at 175.

 

Clearly not what I meant.

Langford rarely fought at the modern light heavyweight limit.

H2H, surely a great light heavy. In actuality, little resume to speak of there.

 

I did have it, got halfway through and left it at the airport on the way home from amsterdam atsch

 

It was an experience, I went on a piano. A Dutchman gave me 50 cents, sadly that was only a 260th of what my return flight cost me after missing my original flight.

On a more serious note, cheers for ruining the rest of the book for me

 

There was talk of him being light heavyweight champion after he beat O'Brien.

 

He was listed as weighing 180 agianst O'Brien. But I'm pretty sure he could have claimed it had anyone actually taken that division seriously back then.

 

There is a story that he was walking away from the ring, and some official ran after him saying "congratulations, you are the new champion". To this he replied "champion of what?".