How good was Sam Langford?

[Ben Bolt]

You can't separate a fighter from his time.
In his days, Langford was a feared boxer, and often forced to take several fights inside a month to bring food on the table.

Adding another quote from BoxRec:
In the early 1920s, when Langford was half-blind, he went to Jack Kearns, the manager of World Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, and asked for a shot at the title. Kearns said, "Sam, we were looking for somebody easier."
In his autobiography, Dempsey wrote, "There was one man . . . I wouldn’t fight because I knew he would flatten me. I was afraid of Sam Langford."

[Humean]

You can't separate a fighter from his time.
In his days, Langford was a feared boxer, and often forced to take several fights inside a month to bring food on the table.

People do so all the time when they match up old timers against new etc.

In the first half of the 20th century it was pretty standard for fighters to have several fights inside a month to bring food to the table.

[StarshipTrooper]

Great in his era, but it was not a great era except in the imaginations of too many boxing fanatics, and is grossly overrated when people make their all time lists because of their flights of fancy.

Go **** yourself you psuedo-intellectual ****tard.

[billeau2]

Go **** yourself you psuedo-intellectual ****tard.

Poet I do believe you have come up with the best way to beat the curse word censors!

[Humean]

Go **** yourself you psuedo-intellectual ****tard.

You are 45, 45 years old, how can you still behave like this?

Poet I do believe you have come up with the best way to beat the curse word censors!

It must have taken every last IQ point he has to come up with such a sophisticated solution to such a pressing and urgent problem.

[StarshipTrooper]

You are 45, 45 years old, how can you still behave like this?

Considering you managed to insult the entire History Section with the following post you've no business b1tching about anyone's behavior >>>>>

Great in his era, but it was not a great era except in the imaginations of too many boxing fanatics, and is grossly overrated when people make their all time lists because of their flights of fancy.

Now get bent d1ckhead.

[greeh]

great fighter,,, but yes may get overblown sometimes, especially if you think he is a lock for top five ATG

In my opinion, he is. But I can agree on having him lower, but not outside the top ten.

/greeh

[greeh]

Go **** yourself you psuedo-intellectual ****tard.

Considering you managed to insult the entire History Section with the following post you've no business b1tching about anyone's behavior

Now get bent d1ckhead.

/greeh

[Humean]

Considering you managed to insult the entire History Section with the following post you've no business b1tching about anyone's behavior >>>>>



Now get bent d1ckhead.

If you cannot tell the difference between actual criticism and simple name calling then it is no wonder you don't care about differing opinions.

Do you ever have anything interesting to offer or is it simply your thing to troll into threads and call me names? You must really have a thing for me.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

In my opinion, he is. But I can agree on having him lower, but not outside the top ten.

/greeh

for me he is just outside top 5,,, my list varies from time to time but im usually set in my top 5

1. SRR
2. Ali
3. Armstrong
4. SRL
5. Ezzard

langford, greb, pernell, moore, louis would be next but not sure what order