# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-langford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:39.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-langford"
name: "Sam Langford"
slug: "sam-langford"
description: "Samuel Edgar Langford was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1902 to 1926. Called the \"Greatest Fighter Almost Nobody Knows\" by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the greatest fighters of all time. Originally from Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a teenager, and began his professional boxing career there in 1902. Langford was known as \"the Boston Bonecrusher\", \"the Boston Terror\", and, most famously, \"the Boston Tar Baby\". Langford stood 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m) and weighed 185 lb (84 kg) in his prime. He fought from lightweight to heavyweight and defeated many world champions and legends of the time in each weight class. Considered a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, The Ring rated Langford second on their list of the \"100 greatest punchers of all time\". One boxing historian described Langford as \"experienced as a heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson\"."
tagline: "Canadian boxer (1886–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Langford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1883-03-04"
deathDate: "1956-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.016104253062564
  historical:           14.32996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump