Editing Sam Langford (section)

== World Colored Heavyweight Championship ==
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Sam Langford won the [[World Colored Heavyweight Championship]] a record five times between 1910 and 1918. [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]] had reigned as the World Colored Heavyweight Champion from 1903 to 1908, when he relinquished the title after winning the World Heavyweight Championship. [[Joe Jeanette]] and [[Sam McVey]] fought in [[Paris]] in February 1909 to fill the vacant title, with McVey the victor. Jeanette took the title away from McVey two months later.

Subsequently, Langford claimed the title during Jeanette's reign after Johnson refused to defend the World Heavyweight Championship against him. For a year there were two duelling claimants to the world-coloured heavyweight crown, Jeanette, the "official" champ, and Langford, the pretender, the man whom Jack Johnson "ducked". On September 6, 1910, in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, Langford became the undisputed coloured champ by winning a 15-round bout with Jeanette on points. Still, Jack Johnson refused to give him a title shot.