Henry Armstrong
Featherweight Champion 1937 - 1938
Lightweight Champion 1938 - 1939
Welterweight Champion 1938 - 1940

   

HENRY JACKSON
b. December 12, 1912
d. October 24, 1988

 

WON
151

LOST
21

DRAWS
9

KO'S
101

 

Multiple titleholder Henry Armstrong has nicely signed this first day cover in black ballpoint ink... Commemorating the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany and postmarked August 17, 1972

measures: 3.5 x 6.5"
condition: fine

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Little Big Men: Henry Armstrong
 

 
      Henry Armstrong was a physical loan shark, a fighter who adopted General Clausewitz's theory that the winning general is the one who can impose his will upon the enemy. One hundred fifty-one times Armstrong imposed his will on his opponents, suffocating them in his swarming style, firing off his punches and then running over them, much like a runaway locomotive, with a ten-ton truck rumbling over their remains for good measure.  
 


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