Henry Armstrong : Boxing's Super Champ
Henry Armstrong : Boxing's Super Champ
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Author(s): Jarrett, John
ISBN No.: 9781801504560
Pages: 352
Year: 202307
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 46.04
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Henry Armstrong: Boxing's Super Champ is the story of arguably the most incredible fighter in the history of boxing - told by one of the few surviving writers to have been around during Armstrong's unique world championship reign. When Henry had his arm raised on 17 August 1938, after winning a blood-spattered 15-round decision over Lou Ambers, he entered the record books as the first boxer to simultaneously hold world titles at three different weights, and somehow he managed the feat in an era of just eight weight classes, with no 'junior' or 'super' divisions. He had entered Madison Square Garden that night as the reigning world feather and welterweight champion, and left with the world lightweight belt strapped around his waist. Now in his 90s, veteran boxing journalist and author John Jarrett looks back on the life and extraordinary career of this ring hero of his youth: the 5ft 5½in buzzsaw whose relentless, all-action style earned him the nickname 'Homicide Hank'. In the 85 years that have passed since then, nobody has matched Armstrong's amazing triple-championship feat. It's likely no one ever will.


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