- World light heavyweight boxing champion, 1939-1941.
- Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1990.
- Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, 1981.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 123-125. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pp. 113-114. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
- Biography in: "The Boxing Register", by James B. Roberts and Alexander G. Skutt. 4th edition, pp. 362-365. Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press, 2006.
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