Born: Henry Jackson
Featherweight Champion 1937-38.... Lightweight Champion 1938-39... Welterweight Champion 1938-40
At a time when boxing had only eight weight classes, Henry Armstrong simultaneously held world titles in three of them. Armstrong collected everything but money in his impressive career. He was a knockout artist with a killer punch and a killer attitude in the ring. His incessant windmill style dazed his opponents, and he was extraordinarily resistant to battering. Poorly paid or cheated out of most of his ring earnings, Armstrong could rarely afford the high life of a champion, but prizefighting has never seen a more deserving bearer of it's top honors.
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