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Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds.
For last week's fight Henry Armstrong received $27,203 of which he must pay 33⅓% to Manager Mead and 10% to the original Harry Armstrong, who is now his trainer and poses as his brother. Signed up by Promoter Mike Jacobs for the next three years, Armstrong...
Luigi D'Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) and Tony Canzoneri began fighting each other in 1931. They fought several rounds every day. Canzoneri, then lightweight champion, was training for an important bout and Ambers was his sparring partner. When Canzoneri finished training and his sparring partner went on to become a...
Mentally the advantage was Canzoneri's because he was fighting a onetime underling. Physically it was Ambers' because he knew all his opponent's tricks. Before the fight was two rounds old, it became obvious that this time Ambers' knowledge of how to catch Canzoneri'...
Admirers of Devil Montanez hailed his clear-cut victory last week as tantamount to a championship. Venturi, who succeeded Orlandi as the best Italian lightweight, last January held Champion Ambers to a draw which many spectators thought should have been a decision for the challenger.