How could Sam Langford fight when he was nearly blind?

Remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4w1ZqkABc

 

You're a plain ****ing hamburger mate. The shittiest type of burger which nobody orders. Macdonalds staff spit on you for being a *****

 

i'm sure langford's sight was damaged badly but we'll never know to what extent at the time of the flowers fight. usually these boxing "tall tales" from the golden years are full of crap but from looking at video above, it's not hard to imagine this story being close to the truth.

btw, langford is the greatest fighter of all-time in my book.

 

Lol no Pachilles I am the best poster here. Don't be angry. It is me and a bunch of morons like you who keep posting the same thing over and over because somebody told you.

There is little footage of Langford but you will believe he is great when in reality nobody of that era was as nearly as skilled asa modern fighters.

 

How do we know Greb was a great fighter? Have you gone over his record to see who he beat among all time greats,,,you haven't or you wouldn't have posted. Who are these new idiot's at Eastside??

 

And having no clue about boxing or its history this guy posts again. As with Greb he has no idea of his record against all time greats or has viewed his films to see what he had. Another totally worthless posting.

 

It wasnt uncommon back then. Retinas generally tear quite easily when being punched in the eye and if they arent repaired complete vision loss happens. If they are repaired, generally a cataract forms and partial vision loss happens.

I wrote about it recently.

http://www.boxing.com/the_eyes_have_it.html

 

Lol timmers I watched the few youtube fights of these guys cum guzzler. As I said comparing fighters from a time when few if any threw real combinations and judging them based off here say instead of factual proofs shows you are another worthless poster and you get ignored too.

 

For anybody who isn't a ****** so I mean none of you people here you can just go to youtube and laugh you ass off how boxing has changed. Him jumping around throwing 1 punch at a time .

In a era where boxing was still in its baby stages. You will see guys claim they had fights under other names and have no proof of it but it would still go on their records.

Greb and Langford both fought in this era but again because some old time "so called " boxing expert said these guys were great then it must be true. Good stuff

 

It is like this.

Their records are so off the scale, that if you watched footage of them and thought that they looked cr4p, it would merely prove your inability to judge how good a fighter was from footage.

There is no argument against somebody who has proved it in the real world.

 

There is little doubt that he was medically blind during his career, and that he later went blind in the conventional sense.

Of course he could probably see people as shadowy forms while he was fighting “blind”, and his instincts and muscle memory would have done the rest.

 

Janitor looking good in a era where fighters didn't throw combos or looking at 2 fights of a fighter at the end of their careers mean they were as skilled as modern fighters right?

So based on that jack ass logic Tye Fields is great right? He has a good record when he fights nobodies. Also by the measure the greatest heavyweight of all time is Deontay Wilder right? Look how impressive his record is.

And Janitor if you can look at some old black and wife footage of a fighter grabbing and holding another fighter or throwing 1 punch at a time then you clearly just don't know boxing. But it is ok none of you people do.

You just keep repeating the same thing over and over again. Whatever a old time boxing person tells you must be fact.

Jack Johnson had great defense right? Because he was good a dodging 1 punch at a time right?

Jim Jefferies was strong right? Because he could push 170 pound fighters around.

Ken Norton had a glass chin right? Because he was stopped by 3 of the hardest punches of all time and it was a 1 punch knock out anyway.

Marciano is the hardest punching heavyweight of all time even though he never knocked out a modern sized heavyweight period. Also it took him 9 pound to knock out the shop worn blown up glass chin natural middleweight Archie Moore.

Yep all because you heard it. You don't have to like my post. I am real. If something is racial biased I will tell you. Whites only like Marciano because he is white and blacks only like Floyd Mayweather Jr because he is black. It is what it is.

At least I mix things up here instead of just repeating what everybody else says.

 

You mix nothing up and say nothing any with experience and study of boxings history didn't consider on their first day, you have no clue about the sport but have every right to keep showing it.

 

Lol Janitor who was world class when Marciano knocked them out? Moore was washed up and a natural middle weight . Charles was washed up and was a natural light heavyweight. Jersey Joe was knocked out various times in his career by supposed lesser fighters much quicker than Marciano and Walcott was washed up. Joe Louis was washed up and known for having a glass chin right? But that makes him a hard puncher? As I said only in boxing forums this where people like you live in denial. Trying to praise somebody because of their skin color.

Janitor a lot of white racist will bring up their supposed love for a black person to mask racism. There is very little fight footage of Langford so you saying he is great proves my point. A racist in disguise. The media told you he was great and he is black so you pretend to believe that to hide who you are.

Norton lost to hard punches so he has a glass chin right? Then wouldn't that mean Jersey Joe Walcott had worse chin since he was knocked out more? Never head anybody say that though because it will prove Marciano faced nobodies.

Jim Jefferies lifted 2 sparing partners with his hands? And you know this because of? Where are the videos or pictures? Wait you heard he did it so it is true right?

Jack Johnson didn't throw combinations like people throw now. You bring up Wlad grabbing and holding? Because Wlad is overrated as well.

This forum has overturn previous though ideas? Name one. Everything on this forum especially the classic is the same thing over and over.

Foreman had horrible stamina because he got tired against Ali and suffered a heat stroke against Jimmy Young. Even though he did go 10 rounds with Gregoria Peralta a slick boxer.

Oh and some black fighters say Marciano was their icon? Ok so I a guy said Adolf Hilter was his "Icon" That means Hitler was a great guy?

The point is Rocky Marciano was a 185 pound fighter who fought mostly 185 pound or less fighters. His best wins came against faded fighters who are only popular now because it makes Rocky Marciano seem legit.

You have no answer for that. No white person on this forum does. Explain to me how a fighter who wasn't a heavyweight or beat a heavyweight still be considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.

That is how I know most whites here are racist. But as I said any black person who tries to put Floyd Mayweather or Mike "The ******" Tyson on a pedestal is probably racist as well. If Mayweather was white the black fans wouldn't like him either.

I call it how I see it. Racism is racism. Bias is bias. Also repeating the same thing over and over because you heard it or because you want it to be true doesn't make it true.