anyone ever won a fight with two broken hands,some cracked ribs, broken nose, dislocated shoulder, and bad cuts over or under a shut eye? it sounds impossible, but anything can happen.
They say Sam Langford fought the last years of his career virtually blind. Beat some fighters somehow during that span too, but collected a good bulk of his losses then. According to the Nov. 22, 1935 Digby Weekly Courier, "Langford has been virtually blind since he fought Fred Fulton in 1917." This is when the first eye injury occured. The June 20, 1917 Boston Globe reported that Sam quit due to injury failing to come out for the seventh round and noted that "When Sam quit his eye was closed tightly." It was Sam's left eye that was injured first. This is astonishing, since he would have trouble seeing right hands ever after. On June 5, 1922, at age 39, he fought future Middleweight champion Tiger Flowers. In this fight Sam was blinded in his remaining good right eye. He looked for Flowers but couldn't see him. Everything before him was blurred. The ring floor, the referee and his opponent weren't there! "There was something the matter for the moment with my eyes." Sam kept cool "I'll let Flowers come and get me." Flowers obliged and when in close, Sam put all he had behind one punch. He heard a gasp and then a thud, Flowers was flat on his back! (Boston Terror Website). The Atlanta Constitution Jun. 6, 1922, reported, "The fatal clout was a right chop that travelled something more than six inches." It was a second round knockout victory for the blind fighter. The doctors warned Sam that the optic nerve had been severely injured that one eye was blind and the other so badly damaged that If he didn't stop fighting he would lose the sight of that one, also. But Langford was broke and continued fighting. "I went down to Mexico in 1922 with this here left eye completely gone and the right just seeing shadows. It was a cataract. They matched me up with Kid Savage for the title. I was bluffing through that I could see but I gave myself away. They bet awful heavy on the kid when the word got round. I just felt my way around and then, wham, I got home. He forgot to duck and so I was heavy weight champion of Mexico." (Weymouth Courier, Friday May 3, 1935). Sam's left eye injury and cataract in his right eye left him almost completely blind the last years of his fighting career.
Coetzee outboxed an opponent after quickly sustaining two broken hands early in his career. Remembered today mainly for his bionic right, he was originally a competent stylist who idolized Ali and decked Knoetze with his left hook. (I think the dual broken hands occurred early in his 12 round rematch with Mike Schutte.)
"Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gazette, July 30, 1868; Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald, September 19, 1868; both citing the Denver News. The fight took 6 hours, 19 minutes. Duffy's left eye was closed, two ribs were broken, and his left arm was broken. Jack, who had lost three teeth and had a broken nose, was essentially blind for the last two rounds, and he died ten minutes after the fight. The report said it was the best fight ever witnessed."
haha no i lost one where i broke my lower jaw on both sides and 2 broken ribs. another fight i won but i broke my nose and a bone in my hand and lost a tooth. bar fights no boxing fights
I had a mate, who in his 4th pro fight, broke both of his hands on the guy in the 2nd round(Miserable luck) and then had his orbital bone broken on a headbutt. No rib damage, but we joke all the time that the fight was about unwinnable at that point. We packed it in after the 4th. Just no point in continuing, and he was in some pain. Winning with injuries like that should be given way more credit than they sometimes are. I bruised my left hand pretty badly once and it affected the next 6 rounds so severely I cant IMAGINE fighting with a broken appendange. Fighting AND winning with two?! Thats some heroic ****.
I'm sure if I perused the records long enough that several bareknuckle legends would have had close to those injuries. both hands broken, cuts over/under both eyes were common place, just another day at the office.
tommy morrison had a bruised kidney a broken jaw and a broken left or right hand agaisnt joe hipp....joe hipps career is also a good place to look for the outragious question. This content is protected marvin camel losing barely 3 points behind. one judge had it a draw against carlos de leon
also anyone know bash ali is stuck in libya http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/nigerian-cruiserweight-boxer-bash-ali-stranded-libya
