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Sam Langford

Sam Langford. His Beginnings.

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Sam Langford

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  1. Sam Langford

  2. His Beginnings Sam Langford was born in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia. He had a very short childhood because at the young age of 12, he ran away. Only two years later when he was only 14, he began his boxing training in Boston, Massachusetts. When Sam Langford was only 16 and weighed only 135 pounds, he had his first boxing fight. The match was against the light weight champion, and Sam was the clear winner. Unfortunately, this was not a title match.That was a good beginning to a great career.

  3. Career During his 21-year career Sam fought in approximately 300 fights. This large number of fights resulted in many injuries to his head and other parts of his body. Sam had an amazing career record of 167-38-37 but unfortunately, he never got the title shot he deserved. Many people claim this was because Sam was of African heritage and was not shown the respect he deserved because of racism. It was harder for him to get the privileged fights.

  4. After Career After Sam Langford’s boxing career ended, he became blind probably because of all of the physical abuse he took in the ring (to the face). In his later life, he worked to raise money for his cause, the prevention and treatment of blindness. This courageous and amazing man died in 1956 at the age of 90.

  5. His Legacy He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, in 1990, the only boxer to get inducted that never got a title shot or had a title. This was a great achievement for him and the boxing world and all of Canada. I’m sure he was proud of his career because it was great one. He was one of the great boxers in his times and mostly likely the greatest Canadian boxer of his time.

  6. Bibliography “Sam Langford.” ENSHRINEES. June 2002. <http://www.ibhof.com/langford.htm “The Boston Terror.” SAM E LANGFORD1883-1956. <http://www.infotechnology.org/blair/sanl.

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  8. More Pictures and Backgrounds http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=langford http://www.freebackgrounds.com/background_3.htm

  9. The Great Boxer

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