Sam Langford of Boston and Cambridge had by his own count 650 boxing bouts between 1902 and 1926; 250 of his fights were officially recorded. Standing just 5 feet 7 inches, and weighing 165 pounds - the size of a middleweight - Langford fought as a heavyweight and held the so-called Negro and Mexican heavyweight titles, in an era when promoters would not match a white fighter against a Black. Fighting the top Black heavy-weights, he lost a narrow 15-round decision to Jack Johnson in Chelsea in 1906. White journalists call him 'next to Jack Dempsey, the finest boxer to ever put on a pair of gloves.'