Henry Armstrong
Birthday December 12, 1912
Birth Sign Sagittarius
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About
One of the greatest boxers of the 1940s, he held three different boxing championships at the same time.
Before Fame
He turned pro after failing to make it on the 1932 U.S. Olympic boxing team.
Trivia
Both Bert Sugar and The Ring magazine ranked him as the second-greatest fighter in the 20th century.
Family Life
His father was a sharecropper and his mother was an Iroquois Indian.
Associated With
Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the few boxers who defeated him.
