Armstrong is the only boxer in history to hold three world championship titles simultaneously, in three weight divisions, in one year - 1938. ( featherweight, welterweight,and lightweight). His record still remains unbroken.

Named fighter of the year in 1937 by the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Ring Magazine named him fighter of the year in 1938.

 He was one of the first inductees into the Boxing Hall of Fame.

In the year 1975, he was inducted to the Black Athletes Hall of Fame.

Listed among the 100 Greatest Black Athletes of the 20th Century.

Inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame on May 21, 1995.

Poet - "Twenty Years of Poem, Moods, and Meditation".

Movies - Keep Punching (1931), The Pittsburgh Kid ( 1941), and Joe Palooka, Champ  ( 1946).

(Author) An autobiography title, GLOVES, GLORY AND GOD.