Guesstimating Langford's Punch

[travestyny]

Right, a novice Gunboat Smith knocked Johnson down, and made him see stars. Johnson's manger halted the match 4 round exibition match to save him from further punishment. Johnson was at his best in 1909. Smith never got a title shot.

Article headline says Johnson was knocked out.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...unboat%20smith

Your own article corrects you.

Says it was sparring, not an exhibition.

Claims Smith says Johnson was down for 4 seconds.

He also claims Johnson was coming out of his prime.


Do you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself?

[Dr. Z]

Slugfester

Langford's punching power, though only hearsay, at least is the hearsay of other great fighters.

Which fighter that you know better matches Langford in power most closely? I will supply three grades of power: G, for greater than Langford's, L, for Less than Langford's, and S, for the same as Langford's. Of course S is not exact and means two fighters' power punch is in the same neighborhood. Make your own markings. How right or how wrong am I?

Tunney L
Dempsey G
Sharkey L
Braddock L
Baer G
Louis G
Walcott S
Charles L
Marciano S
Patterson S
Liston G
Ali S
B Foster S
M Spinks S
V Klit S
W Klit S
Wilder G
Fury

Langford hit plenty hard but he wasn't a true KO artist. He fought with 4-6 ounce gloves ( today heavyweights use 12 ounce gloves .


You listed lots of guys.

I'd say he hit harder than Tunney, Sharkey, Braddock, Walcott, Charles, Ali, Foster, and Spinks.

On par with Fury, and slightly behind Patterson.,

In his timeline he was a 9. In a modern sense more like a 7. He had quick hands, a hard hook, and a solid right hand, weighing in at 170-200 pounds. Obviously he had 15+ round stamima and lots of durability and guts.

[Anthony342]

lol. It's just this ****** skit where they start bickering over who can say "Noice."

HAHA nice. Did you like Jordan Peele's 2019 version of The Twilight Zone? I liked some episodes. The ones that weren't too preachy about race or masculinity. So far, I've liked Blurryman best, although when I watch Season 2 I might like A Small Town or A Human Face better.

[travestyny]

HAHA nice. Did you like Jordan Peele's 2019 version of The Twilight Zone? I liked some episodes. The ones that weren't too preachy about race or masculinity. So far, I've liked Blurryman best, although when I watch Season 2 I might like A Small Town or A Human Face better.

I haven't seen any episodes I think...or maybe one...? I've been meaning to check it out because I loved "Get Out" and "Us," but I thought "Nope" wasn't very good.

[Anthony342]

I haven't seen any episodes I think...or maybe one...? I've been meaning to check it out because I loved "Get Out" and "Us," but I thought "Nope" wasn't very good.

Oddly enough I'm the opposite. Not a fan of any of the movies of his yet. Except maybe the one where they made doubles of people. I guess that was Us. Might check that out. Loved the SNL sketch where someone's auditioning for the next Jordan Peele movie and says let me guess "It's a horror movie about racism?" . And they somehow got Daniel Craig back. Not sure about the show now. It's in another one of those transitional periods, like mid 90s or mid 80s after Eddie Murphy before late 80s and Phil Hartman had other people to work with.

The 2019 Twilight Zone show intrigued me though. Also liked the Comedian episode. Had fun pausing the scene with the list of names the comic looks up, as a lot of them were characters from the original series or possibly people that worked on it. Also Rod Serling wrote a movie back in the day I think for Playhouse 90, also called The Comedian.

Didn't know Langford was Canadian, eh? And with 126 knockouts, he must've hit hard.

[Dr. Z]

Your own article corrects you.

Says it was sparring, not an exhibition.

Claims Smith says Johnson was down for 4 seconds.

He also claims Johnson was coming out of his prime.


Do you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself?

Dude Johnson was in his prime in 1909 at age 30, not commming out of his prime as you are shamless quoting. You are an ageda ridden poster and one who only quotes stuff when it servers you.

[travestyny]

Dude Johnson was in his prime in 1909 at age 30, not commming out of his prime as you are shamless quoting. You are an ageda ridden poster and one who only quotes stuff when it servers you.

As IIIIII am shamelessly QUOTING?

QUOTING.

As in that's what the subject of your article said. You should SHAMELESSLY blame him!


Besides the fact that he contradicted damn near everything that you said


YOU posted the article. Don't blame me for what YOU posted, dumbass!

[GhostofDempsey]

Dude Johnson was in his prime in 1909 at age 30, not commming out of his prime as you are shamless quoting. You are an ageda ridden poster and one who only quotes stuff when it servers you.

Even if it were a sparring session, when fighters are preparing for a fight those sparring sessions are all out wars. Johnson was notorious for trying to embarrass his sparring partners in front of the press or an audience.