Vic thanks for this video of the terribly underated Lou Amber, the most masterful infighter I have ever seen...Notice how he throws uppercuts with both hands in close. How he blocks return punches in close with his elbows and how fresh Lou was in the 15th round ?In 100 fights the TOUGH Lou Ambers fought everybody and anybody and was NEVER stopped except for his last two bouts when he was about through when the laser punching "choir boy", Lew Jenkins kod him twice...My dad a cab driver picked up Lou Ambers and his manager and trainer at MSG right after the last ko in 1941. He heard Ambers tell his crew words to the effect "I got nothing left " . My dad woke me up late at night to tell me that... What a group of great lightweights in the 1930 era. Such as Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong, Tony Canzoneri, Jackie Kid Berg, Billy Petrolle,Pedro Montanez, Jimmy McLarnin, Baby Arizmendi, Frankie Klick, etc. They fought each other spotting sometimes many pounds...These guys would raise hell in the LW division today...Yessir V.:hi:
Cheers for that :good Good to finally see some footage of Montanez. Looks a pretty smooth fighter. The type that would do well against boxer types in particular. Lou a little bit too rough and tough here in seems.
Ugh. See, how the hell is there this footage of Lou, Armstrong, Canzoneri etc years before but hardly anything on Williams, Jack, or Montgomery? Mind****ed.
I still feel Ambers has been criminally underrated or overlooked, relative to some of his peers. Montanez was no slouch either. Another great fighters.
His career was all too brief. The wars against Henry Armstrong seemed to take the fight out of him, enabling Lew Jenkins to end his career. He has also suffered from a lack of key footage until now. It's great to see him win a fight against a difficult opponent like Montanez. The rematch against Armstrong had a lot of controversy over it, taking away from Jenkins's game effort and strategy of nullifying Armstrong's best work in close. The first fight against Canzoneri shows a young Ambers being taken to school by a more experienced master-boxer. I believe he learned a great deal from the loss.
I knew Ambers as a great infighter, but from this footage he's a little better mover than I realized. One thing I noticed is that he usually seems to have his hands placed in an advantageous position on the inside. Montanez looks very legit also.
Right? It's mindboggling really especially considering all of the great fights he was in. :huh I was up all night looking on the web for a reason as to why and really couldn't find anything
Yes T, it is "mind boggling " to think that the greatest "gate draw" of the early 1940s, Beau Jack has no films of him surviving today in his prime...i have a sentimental attatchment to Beau Jack as my dad took me to my first pro card in St Nicholas Arena and Beau Jack fresh from the Battle Royals of Georgia was in the main event...I was enthralled by my first pro card and saw Beau Jack maybe a dozen times after...when young, Beau was a non stop machine throwing hook, crosses, uppercuts, bolo punches in volleys for 15 rounds if necessary...And years later i glanced at the retired Beau Jack shining shoes at the Fountainblieu Hotel in Miami...I felt so SAD that I just walked by....
