In this 1911 clip, the great Sam Langford keeps the pressure on Australian heavyweight Bill Lang - stepping laterally to maintain distance before a half-feint (his pulsing lead and footwork suggesting a left hook) is used to position for a left-hook right-straight combo. As Lang circles away Langford sends a long right to the midsection. Langford's ring-cutting expertise, power and overall bag of fistic tricks denied Lang the opportunity to get anything going, and the man who'd gone 20 rounds with Tommy Burns 10 months earlier suffered a 6 round thrashing before fouling out. Similar to Burns in height, Langford was short with compact power, but beyond that Sam was an iron chinned barrel-chested master-boxer who had unusually long arms for his height. This was (at least) Langford's 106th fight (likely a number much higher in reality), Lang's 33rd - and it showed.
Unfortunately footage of only 3 Langford bouts are known to have survived on film (this one, his 3rd bout with Fireman Jim Flynn, and 10th bout with the great Joe Jeannette). A far more competitive April, 1911 bout Sam had with fellow great Sam McVea in Paris (Draw 20/20) was also filmed but doesn't seem to have survived (at least publicly).
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