Educate me on Sam Langford

What was Langford style bobbing and weaving or shell?

 

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdoGBkeqWQ

 

Thanks Burt & McGrain, I appreciate that. Hopefully, you'll like the biography about Tony Zale as well. It should be out sometime before year-end. We're almost ready to ask the printer to produce some proofs. My father has read all three books and told me he thought the Zale book was the best yet.

 

"I never trust literary reviews from family members"

Touche! He's one of the only family members I can actually get to read any of them. But, maybe Zale will be an exception because it has about four times as many photos as the Langford book. Most of my family members are probably better with pictures.

 

Clay, cannot wait to get the book on Tony Zale you just finished. If any fighter of note
deserved to have a book to be written by an author such as you, it is the well
neglected "Man of Steel ", Tony Zale. I never saw Zale in action, but I did see three of
Zale's opponents ringside, Marcel Cerdan, Georgie Abrams, and Rocky Graziano whom Zale
absolutely ruined ...I have always thought of Zale as a later edition of Polish
fighting middleweights along with Stanley Ketchel and Billy Papke. None tougher than this trio...

 

Now I have often wondered about that.

Tate has some pretty darn good results on paper. The pinnacle of his career is splitting a series with Harry Wills, while the latter was considered to be the outstanding contender over a significant period. Had the Ring Magazine rankings existed, it seems inescapable that wills would have been the #1 going into that series, and Tate would have been at least the #2 after that series.

Perhaps Tate was much more than he was given credit for at the time?

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Mc, Darn right !. Clay is some kind of boxing author for dang sure...

 

Marciano was also around 185lbs. Louis was under 200lbs at his best. Henry Cooper weighed 190 or less when he dropped Ali. It's not that strange an occurence.

 

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Not exclusively. James J. Jeffries averaged out between 215-220lbs in his prime.

Harry Wills, who Langford beat, usually weighed anywhere between 203-215lbs.

 

As you know, only textbook boxers can be successful in the modern age.

Guys like Ricardo Mayorga, Samuel Peter, Carl Froch, Giovanni Segura, Marcos Maidana, Ruslan Provodnikov, Vic Darchinyan, Joe Calzaghe, Marco Huck, these guys are all super athletic, quick, and throw perfectly formed punches and move about the ring just as Floyd Mayweather does.

 

Footage is very good concerning Langford, so I dispute your claim with comfort.

How about you indulge in some auto-erotic asphyxiation when no one else is home?