HENRY ARMSRONG & LOU AMBERS GOT A BEAT DOWN FROM DAVEY DAY & DODGED HIM REMATCH

Description: IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SEEING ACTION PHOTOS OF DAVEY AND ARMSTRONG, YOU CAN JUDGE FOR YOURSELF, WHO TOOK THE WORST BEATING. ARMSTRONG HAD TO BE ASSISTED OUT OF THE RING, AND REFUSED TO GET IN THE RING IN A REMATCH WITH MR. DAY. ARMSTRONG AND LOU AMBERS BOTH DUCKED DAVEY TURNING DOWN $35,000 TO EACH. DAVEY WAS THE SCOURGE TO MIKE JACOBS BOXING MONOPOLY IN NEW YORK. UNCLE MIKE DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE ANY OF HIS HOUSE CHAMPIONS. " A frail little Jewish boy from Chicago's southwest side is what Davey Day looks like, until the gong sounds to send him out of his corner into action. Then he is an elusive stick of dynamite, that unusual combination of a cool and clever boxer who also carries a knockout punch in his bony arms." The one fighter that no Champion wants to get in the ring with, because they can't beat him. DAVEY DAY THE REAL UNCROWNED LIGHTWEIGHT & WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION. DAY AND HIS MANAGER SAM PIAN, ARRIVING IN NEW YORK TO FIGHT THE #1 WELTERWEIGHT CONTENDER PEDRO MONTANEZ 1939 MSG. DAVEY DAY IS THE LAST OF THE GREAT JEWISH BOXERS. KNOWN AS THE HUMAN STRING BEAN. Joe Jacobs manager of 'Max Schmeling' - Jimmy McLarnin, Ray Arcel, "Just to mention a few" all raved how great Davey truly was. Uncle Mike Jacobs Czar of Boxing, Kept all of his Champions from fighting that skinny Jew Kid Davey Day. He wanted to buy Davey's contract to protect his interest, but Day wasn't for sell. Original photo listed is, " IN GOOD COLLECTIBLE CONDITION, 8" x 10 ". ON BACKSIDE DAVEY (In his own handwriting) "MENTIONS HIS MANAGERS ROBBED HIM OUT OF PURSES. " Look for action photos soon to be listed" THE ASTUTE MANAGERIAL FIRM OF PIAN AND WINCH (GRABBED) BOUGHT DAYS CONTRACT FROM TONY LAQUORI IN1931. AS HE WAS A REAL THREAT TO BE MATCHED WITH BARNEY ROSS, MAKING DAVEY HIS STABLEMATE. HAVING DAVEY IN THE SAME STABLE GUARANTEED ROSS'S TITLE FROM EVER BEING THREATENED, WHICH INCLUDED DAVEY HIMSELF WHO WAS THE #1 CONTENDER IN THE MIDWEST. EVIDENT OF THAT IS BARNEY NEVER HAD TO DEFEND HIS LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. HOLDING DAVEY BACK FROM BEING THE LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION. THESE TWO MANAGERS WERE VERY SMART. ALL THE LIGHTWEIGHT & WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION'S FROM 1933 TO 1941 WOULDN'T FIGHT DAVEY. A MASTER BOXER FIGHTER, WHO WAS THE REAL DEAL. "THE BEST OF THE BEST, NOT AN OPINION A FACT". FRANKIE SAGILIO, A MUCH FEARED KNOCK OUT PUNCHER, THREATENED BARNEY ROSS THRONE IN 1934. FRANKIE DEVASTATED THE HARD NUT PETE NEBO, KNOCKING HIM OUT COLD, WHO GAVE ROSS PLENTY OF TROUBLE. HE HAD TO BEAT THE EMACIATED DAY WHO LOOKS LIKE HE'LL DROP DEAD AT ANY MINUTE, TO GET A CRACK AT CHAMPION BARNEY ROSS TITLE. FRANKIE NAILED DAVEY IN THE SECOND ROUND, FLATTER THAN A PANCAKE, AT THE COUNT OF NINE, MIRACULOUSLY DAVEY GOT UP AND FOR THE NEXT FOUR ROUNDS, WEATHERED THE STORM OF SAGILIO'S DYNAMITE FIST. DAY NAILED FRANKIE IN THE SEVENTH ROUND FOR A COUNT OF NINE, FOLLOWED BY NINE COUNTS IN THE 8TH, 9TH AND 10TH ROUND. THE JUDGES RULED IT A DRAW. BARNEY WAS VISIBLY UPSET (NEWSPAPER CLIPPING) YELLING HIS HEAD OFF, "CALLING IT DRAW." NEWSPAPERS WOULD SAY"DAY WAS A PROTEGE OF BARNEY ROSS, STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL PIAN & WINCH WOULD SAY "ROSS WAS A PROTEGE OF MR. DAY". THE WINNER OF THEIR RETURN MATCH, WAS GUARANTEED TO FIGHT ROSS FOR THE TITLE, EXCLUDING DAVEY OF COURSE. DAY'S MANAGERS PIAN & WINCH, ARGUED WITH SAGILIO'S MANAGER OVER THE GLOVES, SAYING THEY WEREN'T RIGHT AND HAD THEM CUSTOM MADE, SIX OUNCE GLOVES AND NOTHING LESS. THAT'S HOW WORRIED THEY WERE OF THIS KID. IF SAGILIO WOULD HAVE WON, BARNEYS TITLE WOULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER, AS SAGILIO WAS THE HARDEST PUNCHER BARNEY EVER FACED. FORTUNATELY FOR ROSS, DAVEY BROKE FRANKIE'S HEART BY WINNING A UNANIMOUS DECISION. NOTED, FROM THAT TIME ON DAVEY WAS BARNEYS POLICEMAN, PROTECTORATE OF HIS TITLE. DAVEY DAY WAS KNOWN AS THE FIRST ASSISTANT LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION IN THE WORLD. DAVEY HAD THE CHORE OF HANDLING ALL POTENTIAL CHALLENGERS WHO WANTED A SHOT AT ROSS. YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH DAVEY TO PROVE YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE MATCHED WITH BARNEY, AND NOBODY COULD DO IT. DAY FOUGHT BABY ARIZMENDI, IN AN ELIMINATION BOUT TO SELECT A CHALLENGER TO FIGHT CHAMPION TONY CANZONERI. DAY BADLY CUT UP BABY ARIZMENDI TO RIBBONS, BOTH HIS EYES WERE PRETTY WELL PUFFED UP, BRUISED FACE, BLEEDING PROFUSELY FROM A DEEP GASH ACROSS THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE, THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE THE FIGHT. DAY FINISHED UNSCATHED, NOT A BLEMISH. THE WINNER WAS ACTUALLY THE LOSER. ARIZMENDI WOUND UP IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM. THE GUY WHO GOT BEATEN UP, WAS DECLARED THE WINNER, DAY NEVER EVEN GOT A SCRATCH, GO FIGURE. DAY WAS ROBBED, THE FANS VIGOROUSLY BOOED THE SPLIT DECISION. "ARIZMENDI WINNER OVER DAY IN DISPUTED BATTLE" BY CLAIR KELLY, SPLIT DECISION, CHICAGO HERALD. THE ILLINOIS BOXING COMMISSION AFTER THE FIGHT STAYED(REMAINED) DAY'S RANKING AS THE #1 LIGHTWEIGHT CONTENDER. DAY WAS SCHEDULED TO FIGHT ARIZMENDI IN A RE-MATCH TO BLOT OUT HIS LOSE, BUT BABY BACKED OUT. I READ THAT SAM PIAN AND ART WINCH (MANAGERS OF THE HOUSE OF ROSSCHILD) HAD OFFERED TO SIGN TWO CONTRACTS FOR MATCHES WITH CANZONERI, SAID TONY'S PILOT, SAM GOLDMAN. "THE FIRST CALLING FOR A DAY-CANZONERI SCRAP AND THE SECOND FOR ROSS-CANZONERI TITLE BOUT WOULD TAKE PLACE ONLY IF TONY BEATS DAY". TONY REFUSED THE OFFER NOT WANTING TO FIGHT DAVEY AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF DAVEY'S LONG ROAD TOWARDS A TITLE MATCH. DAY FOUGHT A NON-TITLED MATCH WITH LOU AMBER'S IN 1937, DAY PUMMELED THE CHAMPION SENSELESS IN THE LAST THREE ROUNDS, AND WAS SAVED BY THE BELL OF GETTING KO'ED. DAVEY GOT THE REFEREES NOD, AND ROBBED IN A SPLIT DECISION. IT WAS SAID THAT DAY BROKE THE CHAMPIONS JAW, HIS MANAGER DENIED IT. DAY FINISHED THE FIGHT WITHOUT A MARK. "INTERESTING TIDBIT , DAVEY HELD BACK FROM KNOCKING AMBER'S OUT, AS, IF HE DID, THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN LETTING HIM FIGHT AMBER'S FOR THE TITLE". DAVEY WAS INTERVIEWED AFTER THE FIGHT BY NELSON ALGREN, "THEY TOSSED HIM THE DUKE - WAIT'LL I AM THE CHAMP THOUGH- I'LL KEEP IT IN MY OLD HOME TOWN, AND THEY'LL BE TOSSING THE DUKE AT ME LIKE THAT TOO- I 'LL BE A HOUSEMAN THAN". LOU AMBER'S WAS TO FIGHT THE WINNER OF THE DAY / VENTURI MATCH, DAY WON AND LOU PASSED ON DAY, FIGHTING VENTURI INSTEAD. READ NELSON ALGREN'S (RENOWN AMERICAN WRITER) COMPLETE INTERVIEW, WITH DAVEY DAY AFTER HIS FIGHT WITH ARMSTRONG IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, SEARCH UNDER, * INDUSTRIAL FOLKLORE OF CHICAGO* EIGHT PAGES. ALL THE CHAMPIONS WERE UNDER CONTRACT TO MIKE JACOB'S (OCTOPUS) PROMOTER, 20TH CENTURY BOXING CLUB. HE CONTROLLED ALL BOXING MATCHES IN NY. PICKING WHO (NOT BY MERIT ALONE) HE SAYS, IS THE CHAMPION, AND WON'T LET MR. DAY, TAKE AWAY ANY OF HIS (THEIR) TITLES. THEY ARE HIS GOLDEN GEESE. THE NY BOXING COMMISSION WAS PART AND PARCEL OF UNCLE MIKES EMPIRE AND PROTECTED ALL OF THEM, FROM MR. DAY. ARMSTRONG WAS TO FIGHT THE WINNER OF THE DAVEY DAY - PEDRO MONTANEZ 10 ROUND ELIMINATION BOUT FOR THE WELTERWEIGHT TITLE. DAVEY STOPPED MONTANEZ IN THE 8TH RD. VIA A SEVERE GASHED EYE, SENDING HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, DAY WAS UNMARKED. JOE JACOB'S MANAGER OF MAX SCHMELING SAW THE DAY & MONTANEZ , AND SAID,"DAY IS A SMART BOY HE CHURNS HIS PUNCHES IN PEDRO'S EYE". MOST OF THE NEW YORK SPORTS WRITERS HEADLINE ARTICLES WERE BIASED SAYING, " MONTANEZ WAS BEATING DAY WITH HARD BODY PUNCHES AND WAS AHEAD WHEN THE REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT". THE NEWSPAPERS (PR) WERE DEVOTED TO MIKE JACOBS "DESPOT" IN BUILDING UP THE GATE FOR MONTANEZ NEXT FIGHT. "I WENT TO DAYS DRESSING ROOM TO SEE FOR MYSELF IF DAY WAS HURT, THERE WASN'T ANY BUMPS OR BRUISES ON HIS BODY, EXCEPT DAVEY'S LEFT ARM BEING CRIMSON (RED) AROUND THE ELBOWS FROM THE PUNISHMENT IT TOOK" BY LESTER BROMBERG NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAPH. JACK MILEY, NY POST NEWS "ARMSTRONG DUCKED DAVEY" ( JACOBS HOUSE CHAMPION) AND FOUGHT ( N.B.A. DID NOT SANCTION THE FIGHT AS A CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH) THE SOFTENED UP PEDRO MONTANEZ (COMPLIMENTS OF MR. DAY) FOR THE NY VERSION OF THE TITLE. -- "IN THE WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT, ARMSTRONG WAS AWARDED A TKO OVER DAVEY". IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FIGHT, HE WAS OFFERED $35,000 TO FIGHT DAY IN A RE-MATCH, AND TURNED IT DOWN, BECAUSE HE KNEW, HE COULDN'T, BEAT DAVEY. SAME SITUATION, WITH LOU AMBER'S, IF HE ( JACOBS WOULD SIGN BOTH OF THEM) THOUGHT HE COULD BEAT DAVEY, HE CERTAINLY WOULD NOT HAVE TURNED DOWN $35,000. THE N.B.A. EDICT DEMANDED CHAMPION LOU AMBER'S TO FIGHT MR. DAY ON MARCH 22ND 1940, OR BE STRIPPED OF HIS TITLE. AMBER'S IGNORED THE N.B.A. RULING TO FIGHT DAVEY, AND LOST HIS TITLE. NEW YORK TIMES QUOTE, " MIKE JACOBS CONTENTION, WAS NOT A PRACTICAL OBJECTIVE TO HAVE DAY FIGHT ANY OF HIS CHAMPIONS". JACOBS RUSHED IN "Lew Jenkins who wasn't even rated in the top 10 Ring Magazine annual rating of 1939 TO FIGHT AMBER'S FOR THE NEW YORK VERSION OF THE LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. AL WEILL WAS LOU AMBER'S MANAGER AND CONFIDANT OF MIKE JACOB'S. INCIDENTALLY, HE WAS ALSO, ROCKY MARCIANO'S MANAGER. LEW JENKIN'S MANAGER WAS HYMIE CAPLAN. AL WEILL, CALLED OUT CAPLIN, "TELLING HIM THAT HE SHOULD FIGHT DAVEY DAY FIRST, AND HIS ANSWER WAS, WE FIGHT BETTER AT NIGHT, THAN BY DAY. DAVEY WAS THE #1. LIGHTWEIGHT AND WELTERWEIGHT CONTENDER, AND NEITHER OF THESE TWO GREAT CHAMPIONS WERE SERVED TO MR. DAY. THIS IS WHEN THE N.B.A. AND THE NY STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION SPLIT THEIR RECOGNITION OF THE LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. NY COMMISSION IN DOING SO, SAID, "DAY WAS NOT A LIGHTWEIGHT", AS HE'S BEEN CAMPAIGNING IN THE WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION. DAVEY WAS A NATURAL LIGHTWEIGHT AND FOUGHT ANY CHALLENGER LIGHTWEIGHT OR WELTERWEIGHT. ON MAY 3RD 1940 THE N.B.A. PICKED SAMMY ANGOTT RANKED #2 TO FIGHT DAY, WHO CAME IN AT 134 LBS. FOR THE WORLD LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE IN LOUISVILLE. THE FIGHT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR CHICAGO AND WOULD HAVE DRAWN A BIGGER GATE, WITH JUDGES. JACK DEMPSEY WAS SUDDENLY ELECTED (four days before fight)TO BE THE SOLE REFEREE AND JUDGE, SHELVING THE JUDGE TEAM, COURTESY OF THE KY. BOXING COMMISSION. HONEST CHARLEY JONES BANKER AND MANAGER OF SAMMY ANGOTT, PAID ALL OF DEMPSEY'S EXPENSES, INCLUDING HIS REGULAR FEE OF $7,500.TO DO A HATCHET JOB ON DAVEY. DAY WAS THE 8/5 FAVORITE, AS HE PREVIOUSLY BEAT ANGOTT IN 12 ROUNDS. DAY'S PURSE WAS $5000.00. JACK DEMPSEY, WAS NOTED AS A RENOWNED GAMBLER, BLACK LISTED, AND PROHIBITED FROM OFFICIATING IN THE BYLAWS OF THE KY. BOXING COMMISSION, IN KEEPING WITH FAIR AND HONEST DECISIONS. "WITH THEIR EYES WIDE SHUT" ALLOWED DEMPSEY TO PICK THE N.B.A. WORLD LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION. DAYS OWN MANAGERS DID NOT PROTEST THE RULING. BEFORE THE FIGHT DAYS MANAGERS, TOLD DAY "HE IS ON OUR SIDE". DAY SAID, "DEMPSEY AIN'T RIGHT". HIS OWN MANAGERS WERE COMPLICIT IN THE SCAM. DEMPSEY MADE SAMMY ANGOTT THE WINNER BY ONE POINT, COSTING DAY A MILLION DOLLARS. IF THEY WANTED AN HONEST JUDGE, THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT GENE TUNNEY. JOHN LARDNER, SYNDICATED NEW YORK SPORTSWRITER, ONE YEAR (1941) AFTER THE LOUISVILLE RIP-OFF, WROTE,"THREE WITNESSES BLABBED". MIKE JACOBS THE NEW YORK BOXING DESPOT COULDN'T BUY DAYS CONTRACT, THUS, SHUNNING HIM FROM FIGHTING IN NEW YORK WITH JENKINS, ZIVIC & CANZONERI. THE ILLINOIS BOXING COMMISSION IN 1935, WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE , TONY CANZONERI, AS LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION UNTIL HE BEATS DAY. DAVEY CUT UP FRITZI ZIVIC IN THE AMATEURS, AND FRITZIE'S BROTHERS WANTED TO BEAT DAVEY UP AFTER THE FIGHT. BARNEY ROSS, WAS DAVEYS STABLEMATE, (FROM 1931 TO 1938) WANTED TO BUY OUT DAVEY'S CONTRACT FROM PIAN & WINCH, THAT WOULD SEAL IT FOR GOOD, HE WOULDN'T, HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. BARNEY ROSS WAS A VERY FORTUNATE FELLOW TO HAVE DAVEY AS HIS STABLEMATE. ROSS SAID, "NOBODY IN THE WORLD COULD BEAT DAVEY, EXCEPT ARMSTRONG"....., SURE WITH THE REFEREE'S HELP! DAY COULD DO ALL THE THINGS, ROSS COULDN'T DO AGAINST ARMSTRONG. TONY CANZONERI WANTED A 3RD FIGHT TRILOGY MATCH WITH ROSS, FROM 1935 TO 1938, AND REFUSED FIGHT DAY, FOR A SHOT AT ROSS. ARMSTRONG WHO WAS A FEATHERWEIGHT, WAS ALLOWED TO BYPASS FIGHTING DAVEY, AS. PIAN AND WINCH DECIDED TO LET ARMSTRONG FIGHT ROSS FOR A BIG PAY DAY. IF MR. DAY FOUGHT AND BEAT ARMSTRONG FIRST, IT WOULD ELIMINATE A CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH WITH ROSS. ARMSTRONG GOT HIS WISH, JUMPING FROM FEATHERWEIGHT TO WELTERWEIGHT TITLE WITH BARNEY ROSS. ARCH WARD CHICAGO TRIBUNE SAID, "THE ONLY TWO FIGHTERS THAT CAN KNOCK YOU OUT WITH A SIX INCH PUNCH WAS JOE LOUIS AND DAVEY DAY". IN THE ARMSTRONG VS. DAY WELTERWEIGHT TITLE ON MARCH 31, 1939, BOTH COMBATANTS WERE LIGHTWEIGHTS. DAY HAD TO SIGN TO COME IN AT 136 LB. TO PROTECT HENRY'S LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. THE REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT TO PREVENT ARMSTRONG FROM LOSING, WITH 12 SECONDS LEFT IN THE 12TH RD. THE REF. LOOKED AT ARMSTRONG'S BLOODIED FACE IN WONDERMENT, WHERE HE GOT HIS SUPER HUMAN STAMINA FROM, AND SAID " YOU CAN REST NOW" AS HE CHECKED HIS COUNT AS DAY WAS GETTING UP FROM A PUNCH TO HIS BLIND ( EYE COMPLETELY CLOSED) RIDE SIDE, THAT HE COULDN'T SEE COMING. THE REFEREE, PUT HIS ARM AROUND DAYS SHOULDER AND WALKED HIM TO HIS CORNER. JOHN LARDNER SYNDICATED NEW YORK TIMES SPORTSWRITER, SAID, "ARMSTRONG TOOK A FULL HOUSE OF VITAMINS A TO Z , TO BEAT DAY. AFTER THE FIGHT, THE REFEREE, BILLY CAVANAUGH, SAID, HE HAS NEVER SEEN ANY FIGHTER, THROW AS MANY PUNCHES AS DID ARMSTRONG IN THIS FIGHT. DAVEY SAID, "ARMSTRONG, WAS READY TO COLLAPSE FROM SHEER EXHAUSTION. ARMSTRONG WAS HELPED OUT OF THE RING STILL WEARING HIS CROWN. IT WAS REPORTED, THAT ARMSTRONG THREW 2000 PUNCHES IN 12 RDS. THE (HOUSE) REFEREE COULD HAVE TAKEN MANY ROUNDS AWAY FROM ARMSTRONG. IN THE 11TH ROUND ARMSTRONG CAME OUT HITTING DAY FOUR TIMES SOUTH OF THE BORDER. ARMSTRONG DIDN'T GET AWAY WITH THAT IN HIS FIGHT WITH AMBER'S IN LOSING FIVE ROUNDS FOR LOW BLOWS. DAVEY'S RIGHT EYE WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED SHUT FROM THE 6TH RD AND HIS LEFT EYE WAS JUST A SQUINT/SLIT 80% CLOSED. FIGHTING ARMSTRONG, VIRTUALLY BLIND HALF OF THE FIGHT AND BEATING HIM! ARMSTRONG CLOSED DAVEY'S EYES, NOT FROM HIS PUNCHES, BUT FROM (THROWING LOOPING PUNCHES) HIS ELBOWS, HITTING DAYS EYES. ARMSTRONG HIT DAY BELOW THE WAIST EACH ROUND AND ONLY HAD TWO ROUNDS TAKEN AWAY, GETTING AWAY WITH THE REST. THE REFEREES INSTRUCTIONS WERE THAT THE TITLE CAN NOT BE WON ON FOULS, NOW KEEP IT CLEAN AND COME OUT FIGHTING. "RIGHT, GIVING ARMSTRONG CARTE BLANCHE, TO WIN THE FIGHT ANYWAY HE CAN!" DAVEY WAS STILL VERY DANGEROUS, EVEN THOUGH HANDICAPPED, HE TOOK THE LEAD AWAY FROM ARMSTRONG IN THE 7TH RD. IN THE 8TH ROUND, DAY CUT OPEN DEEP GASH IN HENRY'S LEFT EYE, SERIOUS ENOUGH TO CALL IN THE COMMISSION DOCTOR TO EXAMINE THE BLOODY GASHED EYE. THE DOCTOR WOULDN'T DARE STOP THE FIGHT OUT OF FEAR OF GETTING KILLED, WHEN HE COULD HAVE MADE DAY THE CHAMPION. ARMSTRONG FOR THE FIRST TIME, SUFFERED A BADLY CUT EYE, REQUIRING FOUR STITCHES. A BROKEN RIGHT HAND, PLACED IN A CAST, HIS FACE AND LEFT HAND WAS BADLY BRUISED, CUT LIP, AND LEFT SIDE OF HIS BLOODIED CHEEK WAS CHOPPED UP LIKE RAW MEAT. DAY GAVE ARMSTRONG A TERRIBLE BEATING IN LOSING THE FIGHT. DAY PROVED THAT ARMSTRONG WASN'T INDESTRUCTIBLE OR INVINCIBLE. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN HIS PRIME THAT ARMSTRONG GOT A SERIOUS BEAT DOWN. DAVEY AND ARMSTRONG WERE BOTH THE SAME AGE 27. HENRY IN HIS DRESSING QUARTERS WAS JUBILANT AND TOLD HIS MANAGER EDDIE MEAD, "THAT WAS AN EASY FIGHT, DAY NEVER HURT ME", EDDIE SAID, "HAVE YOU LOOKED IN THE MIRROR YET." NO HE NEARLY KILLED YOU. DAVEY WENT HOME WITH A BRUISED RIGHT EYE. THREE WEEKS LATER IN LONDON, ARMSTRONG WAS TO FIGHT ERNIE RODERICK HIS MANAGER EDDIE, INSISTED THAT HENRY HAVE TWO OR THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF GAUZE (BANDAGES) ON HIS HANDS OR HE WON'T FIGHT. THIS ACTUALLY GAVE ARMSTRONG A BIG ( CLUB LIKE PUNCHES) ADVANTAGE, AS HE CAN HIT MUCH HARDER, FELT LIKE YOU'RE BEING HIT WITH A BRICK. RODERICK, MAY HAVE DECIDED TO DO THE SAME. DAY HIT HARDER THAN ARMSTRONG AND COULD PARALYZE YOU WITH ONE PUNCH. DAY SAID, "ARMSTRONG DID NOT HIT HARD, HE JUST HIT OFTEN, NEVER STOPPING". JOE JACOB'S (NOT MIKE) MANAGER OF CHAMPION MAX SCHMELING OFFERED PIAN AND WINCH $7,500 IN 1934 FOR DAVEY'S CONTRACT, SAYING,"YOU CAN'T DO DAVEY ANY GOOD, BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT CHAMPION BARNEY ROSS". PREVENTING DAVEY FROM BEING CHAMPION. JOE JACOBS WOULD HAVE MATCHED DAVEY AGAINST BARNEY. PIAN AND WINCH, WEREN'T THAT DUMB. THEY KEPT DAY AS THEIR SECURITY BLANKET FOR BARNEY. DAVEY WAS BARNEY'S (POLICE DOG) BODYGUARD, YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH (BEATING ) HIM TO GET A SHOT AT BARNEY'S TITLE. THE GREAT CHAMPION JIMMY MCLARNIN SAID, "DAVEY DAY WOULD OF BEEN CHAMPION, IF HE WASN'T IN THE SAME STABLE WITH ROSS". SPORTS WRITER MILEY, NY NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS (not included make copies for info)TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS FOR DAY, BEING A TOTAL NIGHTMARE TO THE NEW YORK MONOPOLY OF PROMOTER MIKE JACOBS. DAY ON 1/10/ 41 KO'd. NICK CASTIGLIONE IN 37 SECONDS, INCLUDING THE COUNT OF THE FIRST ROUND. NEWSPAPER,"DAVEY WANTS JENKINS". SUGAR RAY ROBINSON KO'd. NICK IN 1:21 SECONDS OF FIRST ROUND. DAY CUT UP BILLY MARQUART. NEWSPAPER, "DAY WANTS FRITZIE ZIVIC NEXT". WHAT FIGHTER CAN YOU NAME THAT HAD OVER 300 FIGHTS AMATEUR / PRO (10,000 PLUS PUNCHES THAT DAVEY BLOCKED AND NEVER SUFFERED A CUT EYE. HIS NAME IS DAVEY DAY, THE "REAL" UNCROWNED CHAMPION, YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK. OH, BY THE WAY, DAVEY WOULDN'T EVEN TAKE AN ASPIRIN!! LET ALONE, VITAMINS? THAT'S WHAT THE NEW YORK SPORTSWRITERS CALLED THEM, BUT NOT IN LONDON! A YOUNG 19 YEAR OLD WAS CRUISING THROUGH THE LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION IN 1941 BY THE NAME OF SUGAR RAY ROBINSON AND DAVEY DAY WAS NEXT ON HIS LIST. THE PROMOTERS PICKED 21 YEAR OLD BOB MONTGOMERY INSTEAD, WHO WAS A WELTERWEIGHT TO BE MATCHED WITH MR. DAY WHO HASN'T HAD FIGHT IN 8 MONTHS. MONTGOMERY STOPPED DAVEY AT 2:59 OF THE FIRST ROUND. ALL BOXING MEMORABILIA FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF BOXING IS A SOLID INVESTMENT AND CAN ONLY GO UP IN VALUE. ALL QUESTIONS WELCOMED. "Save me for more pictures on Davey Day Keep your chin down and your ass off the canvas. "THAT'S ALL FOLK'S!"

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