Why did Vitaly duck a Byrd rematch?

Yet you mock Willis and Langford for not fighting for the title and big up Byrd/Vitali's WBO match as a HW title fight, knowing full well there was a color line in place. I'm really disgusted by that.

 

you shouldn't be disgusted since I was unaware of the colour line applying.

However, your disgust doesn't automatically make them title fights. Merely means we both think they should have been in title fights. and we are disgusted that they weren't.

 

-Well, you seem to be unaware of many things so I we can let that slide.

-Nor does the WBO title make Vitali/Byrd better or more important. And it was for the World Colored Heavyweight Title, which we both agree than should count.

 

it was an exceptional loss, if you want to put it more accurately.

ok, perhaps Avenue Q, if you have tickets.

 

Modern CW Langford chops down the Giant...

[url]http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/File:F92213.jpg[/url]

 

delete

 

I wouldn't let the colour line slide. Why should you now that I am aware it was involved? But it DOES deserve a separate thread as its an unrelated topic you've not acknowledge it as.

You shouldn't try to make this about colour when its about the WIN.

 

-Which loss?

-That doesn't sound as fun as Electric Avenue. "Q" sounds too much like a letter.

 

rofl at you pretending I am one.

 

I shouldn't let it slide because Langford won by KO. Yes, there is much you don't know.

1914-11-26 : [url]Sam Langford[/url] beat [url]Harry Wills[/url] by KO in round 14 of 20

• Location: Arena, Vernon, California, USA
• Referee: [url]George Blake[/url]

• Langford defends [url]World Colored Heavyweight Championship[/url] claim.

"With a left swing to the jaw, Sam Langford of Boston knocked out Harry Wills, the giant New Orleans negro, in the fourteenth round of a scheduled twenty-round fight this afternoon at Vernon. Both men were knocked down repeatedly, Langford himself taking the count four times in the first two rounds. Langford early in the fight hurt his left ankle as he fell to the mat in a vicious breakaway. Wills' effective straight-arm drives gave him an apparent even break in most of the rounds, but Langford fought with a superior knowledge of the game that gradually wore out Wills. As the soreness left Langford's injured ankle, his footwork improved and the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds showed Langford winning. His speed, judgment and force then enabled him to play with Wills. The final swing was delivered after a torrent of blows had left Wills staggering." Indianapolis Star

 

the one this thread is about.

there is no other one I am discussing, I am trying sticking to the topic.

 

Langford started as a welterweight didn't he? He weighed just 156 when he fought Jack Johnson for a heavyweight title.

I know Billy Conn who fought Joe Louis had his first fight at 135.

 

read the edit, before you post, not after.

that wold help your cause and save your fingers.

 

-A HW contender beat another HW contender, that is not that exceptional.

-Perhaps for the best, your knowledge seems limited to this Vlit guy.

 

You shouldn't try to make this about colour when its about the WIN.

Your edit confuses me. You still seem to be under the impression that Langford lost when he won by KO.