Editing Sam Langford (section)

==Professional career ==
[[Image:Sam Langford LOC.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Langford in 1910]]

Langford was a boxer who fought greats from the [[lightweight]] division right up to the [[heavyweight]]s, beating many champions in the process. However, he was never able to secure a world title for himself. Despite the fact, Langford never received a chance to fight for [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]]'s heavyweight title, [[The Ring (magazine)|'' Ring'' magazine]] founder [[Nat Fleischer]] rated Langford as one of the ten best heavyweights of all time. Renowned champion [[Jack Dempsey]] claimed that as a young boxer in 1916 he refused a fight with Langford.  According to Dempsey: "I think Sam Langford was the greatest fighter we ever had."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Heller|first1=Peter|title="In This Corner...!": Forty World Champions Tell Their Stories|date=1973|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0671-21568-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/inthiscornerfort00hell/page/58 58]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/inthiscornerfort00hell/page/58}}</ref>