Something of interest to me is unearthing dormant title claims from boxings early decades where such things were rather poorly documented. One I might have found is Sam Langford at LHW from August 1911. For further context the LHW division had all but ceased to exist between 1905 and 1912 and there were no other LHW claimants in this period at least none that we know of. Per the Newark Evening Star(linked below) "The long talked of Light Heavyweight championship battle between Jack O Brien of Philadelphia and Sam Langford of Boston will take place tonight at the Twentieth Century Club at St Nicholas Rink. They are scheduled to go the usual distance of 10 rounds. Langford will enter the ring weighing about 175 pounds and O Brien will scale 169". O Brien along with Jack Twin Sullivan was one of the final two LHW champions in place at the end of 1905 neither of whom pressed their claim. The next that we know of would be Jack Dillon in early 1912. Either way Langford never fought at LHW again. Australia had a LHW title fight in 1909 that was won by Arthur Cripps but like O Brien and Sullivan Cripps didn't press his claim even at the regional level. While this was one of O Briens final fights he was only 33 and still at an elite level with Ketchel having been the only one to stop him in over a decade. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91064011/1911-08-15/ed-1/seq-9/
