Davey Armstrong: U. S. Olympian, 1972, 1976

[williefromrichmond]

Davey Lee Armstrong

Born June 9, 1956

5’ 8” 112-132

Orthodox stance

Began boxing 1966

Amateur record: about 160-30

Partial record below: 57-12

* - This result verified

1972

*Mch. 14 - Willie Jensen W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves flyweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*Mch. 18 - Melvin Johnson L pts
National Golden Gloves flyweight quarterfinalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

*Apr. 29 - Willie Jensen W pts
*Apr. 30 - Claudio Rivera W pts
National AAU light-flyweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*June 24 - Ian Clyde (Canada) W ko 1
Western Hemisphere Invitational Tournament light-flyweight champion; Elyria, Ohio.

*July 19 - Chris Flores W pts
Armstrong “had his hands full before eliminating Flores” (Pacific Stars and Stripes 7-22-72:19).
*July 21 - Claudio Rivera W pts
*July 22 - Gary Griffin W pts
U. S. Olympic Trials light-flyweight champion; Ft. Worth, Texas.

*Aug. 5 - Clarence James W rsc 3
U. S. Olympic Box-Offs light-flyweight champion; Ft. Worth, Texas. Armstrong “stopped James in the third round when the referee halted the bout after Armstrong floored James with a right to the head” (Corpus Christi [Texas] Times 8-6-72:50).

*Aug. 28 - Arif Dorgu (Turkey) W pts 4-1
*Sept. - Enrique Rodriguez (Spain) L pts 0-5
Olympic Games light-flyweight participant (lost in second series of the competition); Munich, West Germany. “Armstrong had neither the strength nor the experience to cope with Rodriguez” (Daily Republic [Mitchell, South Dakota] 9-5-72:11).

1973

*Mch. 16 - Jesse Trujillo W pts
*Mch. 17 - Javier Rivas W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves flyweight champion; Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake City [Utah] Tribune 3-17-73:23 and 3-18-73:40).

Mch.
Mch.
Mch.
Mch.
National Golden Gloves _________; Lowell, Massachusetts.

Apr. 23 - Mike Hess W

May 9 -
*May 10 - Ronnie Walker W pts
*May 11 - Tommy Battles W pts
“Armstrong won a fairly easy decision over Battles” (Nevada State Journal [Reno] 5-12-73:12).
*May 12 - Mike Hess L pts
National AAU bantamweight finalist; Boston, Massachusetts.

1974

*Feb. 7 - Graham Moughton (England) W pts
USA vs. British Commonwealth; Stateline, Nevada.

Mch. 25-30 National Golden Gloves championship; Denver, Colorado - Did not participate.

June 12-16 - National AAU championship; Knoxville, Tennessee - Did not participate.

*Dec. 7 - Kim Toi-Ho (South Korea). W pts
North America vs. Asia; Reno, Nevada.

1975

*Mch. 21 - Gary Marley W pts
Armstrong “won a unanimous decision over Marley” (Ogden [Utah] Standard-Examiner 3-22-75:A-7).
*Mch. 22 - Lubin Montoya W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves featherweight champion; Pueblo, Colorado.

*Mch. 27 - Ray Therogood L pts
National Golden Gloves featherweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); Knoxville, Tennessee.

*June 10 - Gilbert Mitchell W pts
*June 12 - Larry Semerad W rsc
*June 13 - Conrad Massey W pts
*June 14 - Ronnie Shields W pts
National AAU featherweight champion; Shreveport, Louisiana. Shields “dropped a controversial split decision to Armstrong.’I really thought Ronnie won the fight but it was close,’ admitted Shields’ coach, Rivers Romero.... ‘I think Ronnie could have won the fight if he had thrown a few more punches. His right eye was so badly swollen [following a head butt in his quarterfinal bout of the tournament] that he could barely see out of it ...’ With his eye so badly swollen, Shields had to revert to a counterpunching style. ‘I’m not a real good counterpuncher,’ [he admitted later]. The loss to Armstrong leaves Shields with a 111-9 record” (Port Arthur [Texas] News 6-15-75:21).

July 26 - Jose Lizano (Costa Rico) W pts
North American featherweight champion; Miami, Florida.

Aug. 20-23 - Ohio State Fair Tournament - Did not participate.

*Sept. 5 - Darryl Wiggins W rsc 2
*Sept. 6 - Howard Davis W pts 3-2
US Pan-American Trials featherweight champion; Madison, Wisconsin.

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
*Oct. 25 - Genoveo Griman (Cuba) W pts
Pan-American Games featherweight champion; Mexico City. Armstrong “used a lightning left jab to decision Griman” (Long Beach [California] Independent Press-Telegram 10-26-75:S-9).

1976

*Jan. 24 - Anatoli Volkov L rsc 2
USA vs. Soviet Union; Moscow, Soviet Union. Volkov “knocked Armstrong down with a right hand and the bout was stopped in the second round before 26,000 people” (Lima [Ohio] News 7-22-76:C-1).
Jan. 27 - ( - )
USA vs. Soviet Union; Erevan, Soviet Union.
Jan. 31 - Renat Khayrutdinov W pts
USA vs. Soviet Union; Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Feb. 2 - Alisher Riskiyev W pts
USA vs. Soviet Union; Samarkand, Soviet Union.

*Mch. 25 - Alvin Fowler W pts
*Mch. 26 - Glen Jacobson W rsc 2
*Mch. 27 - Samuel Ayala W pts
*Mch. 27 - David Toomer W rsc 2
National Golden Gloves featherweight champion; Miami, Florida.

*May 12 - John Verderosa W pts
*May 13 - Johnny Lummos W pts
*May 13 - Bruce Williams W pts
*May 14 - Frank Lacacena W pts
*May 14 - Maurice Purnell W pts
*May 15 - Leonel Valencia W pts
National AAU featherweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*June 3 - John Pirtle W rsc 3
“The coach of Pirtle literally threw in the towel to concede victory erly in the third round” (Pacific Stars and Stripes 6-6-76:18).
*June 4 - Forrest Winchester W pts
*June 5 - Leonel Valencia W pts
US Olympic Trials featherweight champion; Cincinnati, Ohio. “Armstrong used his potent left hook to pound out a victory over Valencia. The slender powerhouse from Seattle left Valencia’s face battered and bloody to record his 132nd victory in 150 fights” (Idaho State Journal [Pocatello] 6-6-76:12).

*June 26 - Leonel Valencia W pts
Won US Olympic Box-Offs featherweight championship; Burlington, Vermont. Armstrong “knocked Valencia down with a left hook in the second round to gain the decision” (Syracuse Herald-American 6-27-76:29).

*July 21 - Anatoli Volkov (Soviet Union) W pts 5-0
Armstrong avenged his January 24 defeat by Volkov in Moscow “with a superb performance that sent the crowd into an uproar. He moved from side to side, snapping jabs, firing right leads and working to the body in the final round. Volkov couldn’t get set and when Armstrong was firing his left it was in position to block the right that beat him in Moscow]” (Lima [Ohio] News 7-22-76:C-1).

*July 24 - Tibor Badari (Hungary) W pts 5-0
Armstrong “opened a deep gash alongside Badari’s right eye midway through the third round but, after the referee asked the doctor to inspect the wound, the fight continued. Armstrong then went to work on the gushing red target, drilling left jabs and a sharp right cross to secure the victory” (Kingston [New York] Sunday Freeman 7-25- 76:27).

*July 27 - Angel Herrera (Cuba) L pts 2-3
Olympic featherweight quarterfinalist; Montreal, Canada. Armstrong “lost by the narrowest of margins against Herrera and the U. S. camp howled in protest. ‘Armstrong had the bout stolen from him, pure and simple,’ said Rollie Schwartz, the U. S. team manager. ‘Ninety per cent of the blows Herrera threw were illegal with the gloves open. He should have been warned the required number of times and then disqualified.’ Two officials rules for Armstrong 59-58. Two ruled for Herrera 59-58. The fifth scored it 59-59, but gave the fight to Herrera, apparently on aggressiveness” (Oakland [California] Tribune 7-28-76:39).

July 28 - Armstrong was so disillusioned by his controversial defeat at the hands of Herrera that he retired from amateur boxing. His record at this point was 150-19.

1977

Mch. 30-Apr. 2 - National Golden Gloves championship; Honolulu, Hawaii - Did not participate.

May 3-7 - National AAU championship; Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Did not participate.

Nov. 4 - Returned to amateur boxing.
Nov. 5 -
U. S. ________ ________; Kelly Air Force Base, Texas. This was a tournament to determine the composition of the U. S. team to face Cuba on Nov. 12 in Houston, Texas.

Nov. 12 -
USA vs. Cuba; Houston, Texas.

1978

*Jan. 7 - Ilie Dragomir L pts
USA vs. Romania; Stateline, Nevada.

*Feb. 12 - Jose Aguilar W pts 3-0
USA vs. Cuba; Havana. Armstrong “rallied from a first-round knockdown to defeat Aguilar by a unanimous decision” (Modesto [California] Bee 2-13-78:B-4).

*Mch. 22 - Mark Lemerick W rsc 2
*Mch. 22 - Irleis Perez W pts
*Mch. 24 - Ruben Munoz, Jr. W pts
*Mch. 25 - Ray Mancini W pts
*Mch. 25 - Melvin Paul W pts
National Golden Gloves lightweight champion; Albuquerque, New Mexico.

*Apr. 18 - Jeff Passero W ret 2
Apr. 19 -
*Apr. 20 - Daniel Avery W pts
*Apr. 21 - Johnny Bumphus W pts
*Apr. 22 - Melvin Paul L pts
National AAU lightweight finalist; Biloxi, Mississippi. Paul “upset” Armstrong (Levittown Courier Times 4-24-78:A-13).

1979

Mch. - Richard Nowakowski W pts
USA vs. East Germany; Crystal Bay, ________.

Mch. 28-30 - National Golden Gloves championship; Indianapolis - Did not
participate.

Mch. -
National AAU lightweight champion; _______.

*May 30 - Chris Calvin W pts
*June 2 - Johnny Bumphus W pts
US Pan American Games Trials lightweight champion; Toledo, Ohio. Armstrong “survived a slow start [losing the first round on 4 of the 5 judges’ cards] to win the decision (Toledo Blade 6-3-79:E-1).

*July 8 - Adolfo Horta (Cuba) L pts 0-5
Pan American Games lightweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Syracuse Post-Standard 7-9- 79:9).

Aug. - Rene Weller L pts
USA vs. West Germany; Concord, California.

*Oct. 15 - Rene Weller (West Germany) W pts 5-0
*Oct. 19- Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) L pts 0-5
World Cup lightweight finalist; New York City, New York.

1980

*Feb. 10 - Angel Herrera L pts
USA vs. Cuba; Charlotte, North Carolina.

Turned pro; first bout March 28.

[Nile4000]

Davey Lee Armstrong

Born June 9, 1956

5’ 8” 112-132

Orthodox stance

Began boxing 1966

Amateur record: about 160-30

Partial record below: 57-12

* - This result verified

1972

*Mch. 14 - Willie Jensen W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves flyweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*Mch. 18 - Melvin Johnson L pts
National Golden Gloves flyweight quarterfinalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

*Apr. 29 - Willie Jensen W pts
*Apr. 30 - Claudio Rivera W pts
National AAU light-flyweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*June 24 - Ian Clyde (Canada) W ko 1
Western Hemisphere Invitational Tournament light-flyweight champion; Elyria, Ohio.

*July 19 - Chris Flores W pts
Armstrong “had his hands full before eliminating Flores” (Pacific Stars and Stripes 7-22-72:19).
*July 21 - Claudio Rivera W pts
*July 22 - Gary Griffin W pts
U. S. Olympic Trials light-flyweight champion; Ft. Worth, Texas.

*Aug. 5 - Clarence James W rsc 3
U. S. Olympic Box-Offs light-flyweight champion; Ft. Worth, Texas. Armstrong “stopped James in the third round when the referee halted the bout after Armstrong floored James with a right to the head” (Corpus Christi [Texas] Times 8-6-72:50).

*Aug. 28 - Arif Dorgu (Turkey) W pts 4-1
*Sept. - Enrique Rodriguez (Spain) L pts 0-5
Olympic Games light-flyweight participant (lost in second series of the competition); Munich, West Germany. “Armstrong had neither the strength nor the experience to cope with Rodriguez” (Daily Republic [Mitchell, South Dakota] 9-5-72:11).

1973

*Mch. 16 - Jesse Trujillo W pts
*Mch. 17 - Javier Rivas W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves flyweight champion; Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake City [Utah] Tribune 3-17-73:23 and 3-18-73:40).

Mch.
Mch.
Mch.
Mch.
National Golden Gloves _________; Lowell, Massachusetts.

Apr. 23 - Mike Hess W

May 9 -
*May 10 - Ronnie Walker W pts
*May 11 - Tommy Battles W pts
“Armstrong won a fairly easy decision over Battles” (Nevada State Journal [Reno] 5-12-73:12).
*May 12 - Mike Hess L pts
National AAU bantamweight finalist; Boston, Massachusetts.

1974

*Feb. 7 - Graham Moughton (England) W pts
USA vs. British Commonwealth; Stateline, Nevada.

Mch. 25-30 National Golden Gloves championship; Denver, Colorado - Did not participate.

June 12-16 - National AAU championship; Knoxville, Tennessee - Did not participate.

*Dec. 7 - Kim Toi-Ho (South Korea). W pts
North America vs. Asia; Reno, Nevada.

1975

*Mch. 21 - Gary Marley W pts
Armstrong “won a unanimous decision over Marley” (Ogden [Utah] Standard-Examiner 3-22-75:A-7).
*Mch. 22 - Lubin Montoya W pts
Western Regional Golden Gloves featherweight champion; Pueblo, Colorado.

*Mch. 27 - Ray Therogood L pts
National Golden Gloves featherweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); Knoxville, Tennessee.

*June 10 - Gilbert Mitchell W pts
*June 12 - Larry Semerad W rsc
*June 13 - Conrad Massey W pts
*June 14 - Ronnie Shields W pts
National AAU featherweight champion; Shreveport, Louisiana. Shields “dropped a controversial split decision to Armstrong.’I really thought Ronnie won the fight but it was close,’ admitted Shields’ coach, Rivers Romero.... ‘I think Ronnie could have won the fight if he had thrown a few more punches. His right eye was so badly swollen [following a head butt in his quarterfinal bout of the tournament] that he could barely see out of it ...’ With his eye so badly swollen, Shields had to revert to a counterpunching style. ‘I’m not a real good counterpuncher,’ [he admitted later]. The loss to Armstrong leaves Shields with a 111-9 record” (Port Arthur [Texas] News 6-15-75:21).

July 26 - Jose Lizano (Costa Rico) W pts
North American featherweight champion; Miami, Florida.

Aug. 20-23 - Ohio State Fair Tournament - Did not participate.

*Sept. 5 - Darryl Wiggins W rsc 2
*Sept. 6 - Howard Davis W pts 3-2
US Pan-American Trials featherweight champion; Madison, Wisconsin.

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
*Oct. 25 - Genoveo Griman (Cuba) W pts
Pan-American Games featherweight champion; Mexico City. Armstrong “used a lightning left jab to decision Griman” (Long Beach [California] Independent Press-Telegram 10-26-75:S-9).

1976

*Jan. 24 - Anatoli Volkov L rsc 2
USA vs. Soviet Union; Moscow, Soviet Union. Volkov “knocked Armstrong down with a right hand and the bout was stopped in the second round before 26,000 people” (Lima [Ohio] News 7-22-76:C-1).
Jan. 27 - ( - )
USA vs. Soviet Union; Erevan, Soviet Union.
Jan. 31 - Renat Khayrutdinov W pts
USA vs. Soviet Union; Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Feb. 2 - Alisher Riskiyev W pts
USA vs. Soviet Union; Samarkand, Soviet Union.

*Mch. 25 - Alvin Fowler W pts
*Mch. 26 - Glen Jacobson W rsc 2
*Mch. 27 - Samuel Ayala W pts
*Mch. 27 - David Toomer W rsc 2
National Golden Gloves featherweight champion; Miami, Florida.

*May 12 - John Verderosa W pts
*May 13 - Johnny Lummos W pts
*May 13 - Bruce Williams W pts
*May 14 - Frank Lacacena W pts
*May 14 - Maurice Purnell W pts
*May 15 - Leonel Valencia W pts
National AAU featherweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada.

*June 3 - John Pirtle W rsc 3
“The coach of Pirtle literally threw in the towel to concede victory erly in the third round” (Pacific Stars and Stripes 6-6-76:18).
*June 4 - Forrest Winchester W pts
*June 5 - Leonel Valencia W pts
US Olympic Trials featherweight champion; Cincinnati, Ohio. “Armstrong used his potent left hook to pound out a victory over Valencia. The slender powerhouse from Seattle left Valencia’s face battered and bloody to record his 132nd victory in 150 fights” (Idaho State Journal [Pocatello] 6-6-76:12).

*June 26 - Leonel Valencia W pts
Won US Olympic Box-Offs featherweight championship; Burlington, Vermont. Armstrong “knocked Valencia down with a left hook in the second round to gain the decision” (Syracuse Herald-American 6-27-76:29).

*July 21 - Anatoli Volkov (Soviet Union) W pts 5-0
Armstrong avenged his January 24 defeat by Volkov in Moscow “with a superb performance that sent the crowd into an uproar. He moved from side to side, snapping jabs, firing right leads and working to the body in the final round. Volkov couldn’t get set and when Armstrong was firing his left it was in position to block the right that beat him in Moscow]” (Lima [Ohio] News 7-22-76:C-1).

*July 24 - Tibor Badari (Hungary) W pts 5-0
Armstrong “opened a deep gash alongside Badari’s right eye midway through the third round but, after the referee asked the doctor to inspect the wound, the fight continued. Armstrong then went to work on the gushing red target, drilling left jabs and a sharp right cross to secure the victory” (Kingston [New York] Sunday Freeman 7-25- 76:27).

*July 27 - Angel Herrera (Cuba) L pts 2-3
Olympic featherweight quarterfinalist; Montreal, Canada. Armstrong “lost by the narrowest of margins against Herrera and the U. S. camp howled in protest. ‘Armstrong had the bout stolen from him, pure and simple,’ said Rollie Schwartz, the U. S. team manager. ‘Ninety per cent of the blows Herrera threw were illegal with the gloves open. He should have been warned the required number of times and then disqualified.’ Two officials rules for Armstrong 59-58. Two ruled for Herrera 59-58. The fifth scored it 59-59, but gave the fight to Herrera, apparently on aggressiveness” (Oakland [California] Tribune 7-28-76:39).

July 28 - Armstrong was so disillusioned by his controversial defeat at the hands of Herrera that he retired from amateur boxing. His record at this point was 150-19.

1977

Mch. 30-Apr. 2 - National Golden Gloves championship; Honolulu, Hawaii - Did not participate.

May 3-7 - National AAU championship; Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Did not participate.

Nov. 4 - Returned to amateur boxing.
Nov. 5 -
U. S. ________ ________; Kelly Air Force Base, Texas. This was a tournament to determine the composition of the U. S. team to face Cuba on Nov. 12 in Houston, Texas.

Nov. 12 -
USA vs. Cuba; Houston, Texas.

1978

*Jan. 7 - Ilie Dragomir L pts
USA vs. Romania; Stateline, Nevada.

*Feb. 12 - Jose Aguilar W pts 3-0
USA vs. Cuba; Havana. Armstrong “rallied from a first-round knockdown to defeat Aguilar by a unanimous decision” (Modesto [California] Bee 2-13-78:B-4).

*Mch. 22 - Mark Lemerick W rsc 2
*Mch. 22 - Irleis Perez W pts
*Mch. 24 - Ruben Munoz, Jr. W pts
*Mch. 25 - Ray Mancini W pts
*Mch. 25 - Melvin Paul W pts
National Golden Gloves lightweight champion; Albuquerque, New Mexico.

*Apr. 18 - Jeff Passero W ret 2
Apr. 19 -
*Apr. 20 - Daniel Avery W pts
*Apr. 21 - Johnny Bumphus W pts
*Apr. 22 - Melvin Paul L pts
National AAU lightweight finalist; Biloxi, Mississippi. Paul “upset” Armstrong (Levittown Courier Times 4-24-78:A-13).

1979

Mch. - Richard Nowakowski W pts
USA vs. East Germany; Crystal Bay, ________.

Mch. 28-30 - National Golden Gloves championship; Indianapolis - Did not
participate.

Mch. -
National AAU lightweight champion; _______.

*May 30 - Chris Calvin W pts
*June 2 - Johnny Bumphus W pts
US Pan American Games Trials lightweight champion; Toledo, Ohio. Armstrong “survived a slow start [losing the first round on 4 of the 5 judges’ cards] to win the decision (Toledo Blade 6-3-79:E-1).

*July 8 - Adolfo Horta (Cuba) L pts 0-5
Pan American Games lightweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Syracuse Post-Standard 7-9- 79:9).

Aug. - Rene Weller L pts
USA vs. West Germany; Concord, California.

*Oct. 15 - Rene Weller (West Germany) W pts 5-0
*Oct. 19- Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) L pts 0-5
World Cup lightweight finalist; New York City, New York.

1980

*Feb. 10 - Angel Herrera L pts
USA vs. Cuba; Charlotte, North Carolina.

Turned pro; first bout March 28.

amazing that he managed to beat Howard Davis Jr. at that time.