Jack Johnson and Sam Langford argument

janitor · Feb 4, 2011

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janitor said: ↑

I think he was probably the second best boxer of his time (behind Johnson), but I dont think he was head and shoulders above number 3, probably McVey and several others. He was very good, dont get me wrong, but i dont think he was quite on the same level as Johnson, Jeffries, Louis etc and probably dont even really think he is quite up there with say Corbett, Fitzsimmons etc. I would probably rate him towards the top of the group of contenders like Sharkey, Maher, Slavin, McVey, Wills, Schmelling etc. If given a fair chance he would definitely have had a good chance at winning a title in any era, but i dont think it a guarantee that he would win it in any. And i think it unlikely, all things being even that he would have beaten either Johnson or Jeffries, in his own time.
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I think that he might well have been a talent on a par with Louis, Dempsey or Sullivan.

It is interesting that most people who shared a ring with both Langford and Dempsey seem to have come away thinking that Lanngford was better.

A surprizing number of common opponents with Jack Johnson fought that Langford would have taken a rematch!

Jack Blackburn himself, after the Louis Farr fight said "In a few more years I will have my boy on a par with Sam Langford".

Fraid I have to put the cat among the pigeons!
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