Sam Langford -vs- Jim Flynn III 1910 (16mm Transfer & Restoration) 

wow, we gotta apreciate this! This is so rare to have an actual footage from a Sam Langford fight! Great job!

Great footage. I'm so glad this historical footage of the great Sam Langford is still available for us to see. I am always happy to see old and rare boxing footage. I hope someday footage of both Barbados Joe Walcott and Jersey Joe Walcott's old footage are found. We also need more footage of Joe Jennette, welterweight Sugar Ray Robinson, George Dixon, more Joe Gans, young Jack Johnson, more Sam Langford (the Iron Hague fight in particular) and many more!

Note, it was scheduled for FORTY FIVE ROUNDS.

Nice! So glad to see these old fights preserved, my applause to this channel!

Guy Ward It was a TV show that my father Gene Ward (b.1913 - d.1992 )Sports Writer for the NY Daily News from 1933 to 1980 produced with WPIX channel 11 which was owned by the NY Daily News He produced these shows in the early 60's called The Big Fight They took old footage from classic fights and my father would do the narration I have one more on DVD and are trying to find more The one I got Jake LaMotta- Sugar Ray Robinson 1951

Great job of cleaning this up and adjusting the frame rate. Thanks.

You do such a great job of making these old fights watchable. Thanks.

oh man, what a treat to see this...i'm so grateful watching this

Thanks for posting

Thank you very much for sharing this great fight!! Langford was terrific!

Very nice, Thanks, God Bless you.

This is amazing.

Too many hugs 😁. Love these vintage clips, they highlight the rich and deep history of Boxing.

great job, thankyou.

Many thanks for this rare and wonderful upload...Sam Langford was a courageous, and skilled fighter who is almost lost in history of boxing.

Fantastic. So good to see the great Sam. Bless up bro 👊

Sam Langford what a great fighting machine poor Jim Flynn holding on for dear life.

Langford is the one with a white sash around his waist in case you get confused

Langford in his prime.One of the best infighters in boxing history.

This is a historical treasure.

Langford was one badass dude!

This is blowing my mind! 😵🤤 Sam Langford! His punching style and the way he pushes and pulls his opponent reminds me of Jack Johnson and 70's George Foreman!

Hypnotic chant in the film, something like Flynn, Flynn....

sam was something else a true goat seen 4 fights of him and the speed and hitting power looks scary any idea what weight the gloves were back then great video thx

Langford was a Beast, Dempsey And Johnson were Scared to Fight Him!

I think Sam Langford and Harry Greb are 2 great fighters who seemed to be ignored by the so called experts and historians ....because make no mistake about , these 2 are all time greats of the sport, and should walk into any top5 lists......both are Ring Legends with incredible career stats...

13:23 'You hit me after the bell you......'

The video commentator and the RU-vid commenters don't underestimate boxing. BOTH boxers are aware of the 45 round limit and BOTH are intentionally engaging in a slow attrition fight in the hopes the other guy tires first.

I have the Langford / Johnson footage. Maybe will ship it here one day

There are men in that crowd that were in the civil war....but no one in that crowd is alive today

Langford 5 '7" monster. RIP

Langford's arms were crazy long. You can especially tell due to the high tate of clinching in this bout.

Langford's style looks very similar to Jack Johnson's. Although Langford may have been the more powerful puncher.

A nearly 5ft 7 man with a 74in reach keeping bigger opponents at bay takes an incredible amount of skill. You can't back up straight against him, hard to tie up, don't want to go inside, and his long arms come from different angles. I have similar measurements as langford. He taught me a lot.

legend.

Sam Langford. the real ATG. by a mile.

Jim Flynn the only man to knock out Jack Dempsey.

Great infighting from Sam Langford some of the best I've seen.

Way to go sammy another one bites the dust. I just found out about you brother rest in peace little man with power from GOD in both hands , knocked outtttt.

45 rounds,this is crazy.

Flynn has the honor of losing to the top greats of his day: Johnson, Burns and Langford. A real contender.

Sam Langford: great Nova Scotian.

Can't find the fight where Flynn beats Langford

I sat behind the guy holding the round signs. He had 45.

Essa luta foi no ano em que o timao veio ao mundo !!! VAI CORINTIA !

Fun fact firemen Jim Flynn was deathly afraid of fire

Somewhere out there is film of Greb, somewhere.

Weird watching this when you think that everyone from that time has passed on

Reminds me of my schoolyard fights, a lot of wrestling and fewer punches. That changed when I got older of course!

At 0:51 you can see the swelling on Langford's left eye. In a few years he would be completely blind in that eye. He would keep fighting- losing the sight in his right eye as well.

The audio track is stuck repeating the same background noise...

Harry Greb and Sam Langford are the two best fighters of all time, then Robinson and Armstrong

Damn Sam punches hard throwing them hands like Jersey Joe.😂👍

From the start, Flynn was looking down for something on Langford's foot...😆 The guy was a sucker for punishment. He fought Langford 4 times.

That audio track is hilarious...I wonder who George was?...His name gets screamed every 20 seconds

i was there at this match

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Langford one of the greatest middleweights ever..up with Ketchel/Greb/Robinson/Tiger & Monzon. I forgot, Bob Fitzimmons as well.

Real men

Wow! It's 45 rounds! (For the 45th f'king time...)

Sam Langford, probably the greatest fighter of all time. In this fight with Flynn, Sam was forced to carry Flynn to the fourth round as per agreement by the managers of each fighter. Jack Johnson would never give Sam a rematch due to the first fight where Sam outboxed and out slugged Johnson at 156lbs.

I was young in 1910

He may not have been as skilled as Langford or the other greats of that era, but damn was Flynn a tough SOB

They clinch for 80% of a fight.

Fireman Jim Flynn was one tough hombre, but Sam was in a class by himself. He just toys with Flynn until he gets ready to end it. No slam again Flynn because he was an above average fighter that fought some of the greatest names in boxing. Besides Sam, Flynn fought the likes of Tommy Burns, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Jack Johnson, Billy Pakpe, Gunboat Smith, Carl Morris, and Jack Dempsey, whom he kayoed the in the first fight and lost in the second fight. Sam fought all of these, save Papke, who drew a color line (hint: scared as heck!). Sam's fight record was unmatched by any! Sam was the greatest uncrowned champ ever! My favorite time period for boxing!

Saturday Seventh of January Two Thousand And Twenty-Three. 23.19pm. Good-evening. Jim Flynn, is one of my greatest role models. I style myself (when boxing) on him. He, was the greatest for me. The Bull of Lewisham. 🐂

I had no idea that much clinching happened during the fight.

Langford was a good boxer all round

This ref did not want to get involved.

Who is George

Someone should have told Flynn it wasn't a wrestling match.

A match scheduled for 45 rounds???? haha

What's up with the fck ref all that hugging.

I herd that rounds were not always true as some rounds would end when a fighter got knocked down??

Flynn was a great wrestler

Who is the guy reading the script? And when did he do this? Calling Langford a "TAR BABY" you don't get away that now.

10:57 , here we are in the seventh round in a fight that is designed for 45 rounds 12:47

Apparently Flynn wanted to dance more than he wanted to fight. If you want to get in close to fight, you have to have something to give your opponent. You can’t get in close and play patty-cake. Sam Langford didn’t mind close-in fighting, because he definitely had something to give his opponents.

Langford had 90 fights and was only 26 years old . .

The main difference I notice in these old fights, is the refs let them clinch alot more than nowadays and the fighters used arm blocks to frame against punches and used their arms to push off alot more than today. Could you imagine walking in the ring knowing you're in for a 45 round fight? That's equal to three 15 round fights in one night if it goes the distance.

45 rounds?? No wonder they died young.. Savage!!

Welcome grapple fans!!! Whst on earth...!!??!! This was...boxing!??!!

Yikes. That was some left hook.

Too bad the only faded blurry part is the knockout

Sam langford realizo 256, pelea noqueando a 102, ademas estuvo 9 años peleando siego, se le descubrió cuando en una pelea noqueo a su rival y continuo peleando solo ya que por su seguera no sabia que esta tendido en el ring, peleo desde el peso ligero al peso pesado, ni jack dempsey quiso darle una oportunidad por el titulo

Sam Langford beat the great Joe Gans at lightweight at age seventeen. Gans was lightweight champion and in his prime but for whatever reason, the title wasn't on the line. He then beat Hall of Famer George ‘Elbows’ McFadden. He then drew with the great Jack Blackburn, another excellent technical boxer (later trainer of heavyweight champion Joe Louis) twice ad then moved up to welterweight and drew with legedery Barbados Joe Walcott for the welterweight title. It was agreed by most that Langford won but Walcott got the decision. He beat and drew, against all of these Hall of Famers, Gans, Blackburn, McFadden and Wallcot in his first year as a pro. He drew with Blackburn again when he (Blackburn) moved up to welterweight then went on to later move up to heavyweight where he had most success and won the coloured heavyweight title in 1909, winning the coloured middleweight title en route in 1907. He was an incredibly talented and skillful boxer.way ahead of his time. Jack Johnson refused to give him a rematch after he outpointed him over fifteen rounds in a difficult fight in 1906. Dempsey said in his biography ‘Langford was the only man I was truly afraid of, he was smaller than me but I knew he'd flatten me’. He had well over 300 fights between 1902 and 1926. He faced so many Hall of famers and big names like Dixie Kid, Dave Holly, Yong Peter Jackson, Joe Jeanette, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien,, Kid Norfolk, Stanley Ketchel. Look them up. Serious boxers with serious resumes. It's great to see this very rare footage.

The judges ruled it a draw. Nothing has changed

flynn was a crude brawler

2022 Champion Sam Langford is still relevant. I don't agree with the nickname. Boston Bomber sounds better. FORTY....... FIVE........ ROUNDS?!?!! 🇵🇷✊🏾

so we can tell the fighters apart " Langford has a white sash.. " Also the only black guy in the ring! LOL.

That's a live Frazier Plantation, Damascus Ga. bred Mandingo fighting Buck's son.

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Did he just say the Boston tar baby?

Dam the boston tar baby

That ring looks like its 30 x 30 ...lol....

Wow Sam is a wonderful puncher ! And very skilled ! I’ve heard a lot about him but he is much better then I imagined

He KO’d Dempsey too 🥊

Called him a Boston tar baby...wonder how many that would trigger today?

Langford reminds me of Monzon, with his defense on the inside, the way he uses his lead shoulder to smother punches, & work his right hand to the body. This knowledge seems lost among modern day fighters - nobody fights like this anymore, with the possible exception of Spence & one or two others.

Bring back 45 rounds