Ambers was excellent. A really terrific fighter who could box and brawl. Ambers gave Armstrong all he could handle at Armstrong's best weight. The story is always that Armstrong beat Ambers and then lost a controversial decision due to points being taken away (again, controversially) in their second bout. This does not tell the story though. A lot of people thought Ambers beat Armstrong in their first bout. It took Ambers a year to get a rematch and when he did Armstrong refused to put his WW title on the line. They forced Ambers to sign an agreement stating that. In the fight Armstrong threw dozens of low blows, elbows, headbutts, and shoulders. Far from the victim of an injustic Armstrong was lucky that in New York at the time they didnt award fights on a DQ. Instead he fouled away, got round after round taken away, and could have been allowed to win on a KO (had he been able to stop Ambers) after using all of those dirty tactics. IMO the referee did the only thing he could have done in taking all of those rounds because his fouling was beyond blatant. The fact that Armstrong lost all of those points in their first fight for the same tactics and refused to put his WW title on the line tells me that he had a healthy a respect for Ambers and knew he was going to have to get nasty to have a chance of winning. Ambers is a totally underrated ATG fighter.
Didnt he have a butler who went through guests suitcases, removing alcohol so that his mistress Marion Davies wouldn't get sloshed and start showing her furry curtains off.Or is that William Randolph Scott,Cary Grant's lover I'm thinking of? You remember Grant , he was always pissed, even when he was marching through Georgia.. The Amhersts or as Orson Welles called them " The Magnificent Amhersts", very well to do family,I think Armstrong was their butler, their coat of arms was an Amherst pheasant,with a rosebud in its beak, or was it a sled?
