What is Sam Langford's record?

210–43–53 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 227 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Sam Langford — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

210–43–53

Sam Langford has a reach of 74″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +12.17%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 98th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1914–1926 · EARLIEST 107 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Sam Langford — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-14. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1926	L	Brad Simmons	KO/TKO	1
1926	W	Young Jack Johnson	KO/TKO	2
1925	L	Battling Gahee	Decision	8
1925	W	Frolin Gonzales	Decision	10
1925	D	Tim Sullivan	Decision	6
1925	L	Brad Simmons	KO/TKO	1
1925	W	Young Jack Johnson	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Smiling Kid Nolan	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Sydney Grant	KO/TKO	4
1924	W	Eddie Tremblay	KO/TKO	3
1924	W	Sammy Olson	Decision	4
1924	?	Jim Jam Barry	—	4
1924	W	Tom Riley	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Fireman Jim Flynn	Decision	8
1924	W	Smiling 'Kid' Nolan	KO/TKO	2
1923	L	Sonny Goodrich	Decision	10
1923	W	Roscoe Hall	KO/TKO	1
1923	W	Andrés Balsa	KO/TKO	8
1923	W	Fireman Jim Flynn	KO/TKO	3
1923	L	Bearcat Wright	KO/TKO	9
1923	L	Clem Johnson	KO/TKO	13
1923	W	Jim Tracey	KO/TKO	4
1923	W	Jack Voight	KO/TKO	5
1923	W	Art Surans	KO/TKO	3
1923	W	Chihuahua Kid Brown	Decision	15
1923	W	Jack Savage	KO/TKO	1
1923	W	Tom McCarty	KO/TKO	2
1923	W	Chihuahua 'Kid' Brown	Decision	15
1922	W	Sonny Goodrich	KO/TKO	7
1922	W	Roscoe Hall	KO/TKO	3
1922	W	Jack Taylor	KO/TKO	8
1922	D	Jim Jam Barry	Decision	10
1922	W	Cyclone Smith	KO/TKO	2
1922	W	Battling Owens	KO/TKO	7
1922	D	Brad Simmons	Draw	10
1922	W	Bill Tate	Decision	12
1922	W	Bearcat Wright	KO/TKO	5
1922	W	Tiger Flowers	KO/TKO	2
1922	D	Ted Jamieson	Decision	10
1922	W	Jack Leslie	—	10
1922	L	Tut Jackson	DQ	5
1922	L	Harry Wills	Decision	10
1921	W	Young Peter Jackson	—	10
1921	W	Lee Anderson	Decision	10
1921	L	Bill Tate	—	12
1921	D	Topeka Jack Johnson	Decision	6
1921	W	George Godfrey	KO/TKO	1
1921	W	Bearcat Wright	KO/TKO	9
1921	W	Bill Watkins	KO/TKO	—
1921	W	Alfred Johnson	KO/TKO	—
1921	D	Jack Thompson	Decision	10
1921	W	Bob Devere	KO/TKO	7
1920	W	Jim Jam Barry	Decision	10
1920	W	Clem Johnson	Decision	10
1920	W	Terry Kellar	Decision	6
1920	W	Tiny Jim Herman	KO/TKO	7
1920	W	George Godfrey	KO/TKO	2
1920	W	Jack Thompson	Decision	8
1920	L	Lee Anderson	Decision	10
1920	W	Frank Farmer	Decision	4

Showing 60 of 227 recorded bouts, most recent first.

48 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Sam Langford — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+12.17%

74″ reach on a 66″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	15th pct
Height	66″ (167.6 cm)	0th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 5: lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1910s — 84 of 227 dated bouts
Country	Canada

Record

Boxing record

210–43

314 bouts on record

Finish rate

60%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 34th percentile

By knockout 60%
By decision 40%

The career, bout by bout

227 recorded bouts from 1902 to 1926. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1902–1926

Career span

25y

1902–1926

Longest unbeaten run

34

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1903

21 bouts

Recorded bouts

227

227 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Sam Langford's record?: 210–43–53 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 227 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Langford sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing

84 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

48 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Sam Langford went 34 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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