Over the course of the year, and in 1911, Lang boxed in the United Kingdom and took on the renowned Sam Langford at the Olympia AC in London, where he lost after being disqualified.
title= World Colored Heavyweight Champion
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Langford was the World Colored Heavyweight Champion, a title vacated by Johnson after he won the World Championship, a record five times.
Weymouth Falls was home to one of the world's greatest boxers, Sam Langford (1886–1956).
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In his career as a welterweight and a middleweight, he fought such notable fighters as Jimmy Clabby, Mike Twin Sullivan, Willie Lewis, Sam Langford and Georges Carpentier.
From 1912–1915 Smith established himself as a leading candidate for the heavyweight title, beating among others British and British Empire champion Bombadier Billy Wells and future world champion Jess Willard, and beating and losing to Sam Langford in two fights (this is especially notable since many white fighters refused to fight black opponents).