HENRY ARMSTRONG
featherweight champion 1937 - 1938
lightweight champion 1938 - 1939
welterweight champion 1938 - 1940

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

This vintage promotional photo has been nicely signed and inscribed by Armstrong with a fine tip fountain pen in dark blue ink... The photo is flawless and pictures Armstrong in the prime of his career!!

measures: 5 x 7"
condition: excellent

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The Boxing Album Henry Armstrong is the only person in history to hold three world titles simultaneously, and in an era when there were fewer weight divisions than there are now, and consequently much greater competition, that says a lot for the man who was dubbed "Homicide Hank". He had an abnormally slow heartbeat which enabled him to go flat out for fifteen rounds without tiring, and he used to flail away with his fists non-stop.     Tragically, Armstrong went into a sorry decline in his retirement. Always one for the women and the good life, he frittered away the vast fortune he had earned in the ring and became addicted to drugs and alcohol. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1951 and changed his ways, but when he died he was blind and living in abject poverty. Peter Brooke-Ball