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

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  1. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He kinda beat Ketchel there.
     
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  2. janitor

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    Ketchel was obviously the best lhw of the era.

    He just demolished O'Brien!
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Kinda is the operative word. Langford weighed just over the LHW limit (178) and Ketchel weighed just under the MW limit (159).

    So nobody weighed in at LHW for that fight :lol: It's so annoying.
     
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  4. McGrain

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    I think he probably weighed in at this limit against Tony Caponi, Jeff Clark and Fireman Jim Flynn but other than that i'm really just not sure.
     
    McGrain, Feb 18, 2015
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  5. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It is conjecture that Sam Langford BEAT Stanley Ketchel in their 6 round fight in 1910. But lest it be forgotten Stanley Ketchel was spotting Langford about 14 or so pounds for that fight...
    And Ketchel was literally a shot fighter by then, so much so that it has been said he was addicted to opium and alcohol, thus forcing Stanley to try to recuperate at the home of a friend Col. ****erson in his ranch in Conway, Missouri, where Ketchel was shot in the back by Walter Dipley and soon after died...It has been written that any of the boxing writers who saw the Michigan Assassin at his best, "could afterward see no other middleweight "...
    Aside : I remember reading in the 1940s that Walter Dipley who killed Ketchel 45 or so years before, was released from prison and prison officials feared that old friends of Ketchel would seek retribution and kill Dipley, but he was never harmed...
     
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