20 Facts About Newsboy Brown

David Montrose, better known as Newsboy Brown, was an American boxer who held the World Flyweight Title for eight months in 1928.

Newsboy Brown was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012.

Newsboy Brown was ranked the second-best bantamweight boxer in the world in The Ring magazine's Annual Ratings for 1931, and the fourth-best in January 1932 by the National Boxing Association.

Newsboy Brown began boxing professionally around 1922, and early in his career used the name David Montrose.

Newsboy Brown had two famous bouts against future World Flyweight Champion Corporal Izzy Schwartz.

Newsboy Brown beat him in 1925 but lost in a title bout to Schwartz for the NYSAC flyweight title on December 16,1927.

Newsboy Brown led in the first seven rounds, before McCoy came back in the last three, knocking Newsboy Brown to the canvas in the tenth, but it was too late to take the victory.

Newsboy Brown defended the Flyweight title once by beating Filipino Speedy Dado but lost it in when Johnny Hill won a decision over him on August 29,1928, at the Orient Football Ground in London, becoming the first Scottish boxer to hold a world title.

Newsboy Brown continued to show promise after losing the title, defeating Flyweight world champion Midget Wolgast in Los Angeles in a non-title fight on August 19,1930, in a decisive ten round bout.

Newsboy Brown defeated Filipino Pablo Dano, a future holder of the World bantam title, on May 20,1930, in a close ten round points decision unpopular with the audience at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, but correct in the view of the Los Angeles Times.

Newsboy Brown had lost to Dano five months earlier in San Francisco.

Newsboy Brown was scheduled to meet Frankie Genaro for a second time on September 9,1930, at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, but Genaro scheduled to fight Midget Wolgast instead, perhaps fearing that Newsboy Brown could take back the National Boxing Association World Flyweight Title he held at the time or aware that a fight with champion Wolgast would be bring a bigger audience and be more lucrative.

Newsboy Brown met Archie Bell in an eight round draw at Queensboro Stadium in Queens on August 18,1931, in a fast match where much of the action occurred in the last round.

Newsboy Brown took the USA California Bantamweight State Championship on November 24,1931, defeating Filipino boxer Young Tommy in a ten round points decision in Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles.

Newsboy Brown successfully defended it again facing Young Tommy on January 30,1932, in Los Angeles.

Newsboy Brown fought Speedy Dado twice in 1931, losing one bout and winning the second in a third round knockout in Los Angeles on March 3 for the California State bantam title.

Newsboy Brown's managers included Leo Flynn, Pop Nealis, Joe Levy, and by 1929, Tom Kennedy.

Newsboy Brown was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012.

Newsboy Brown helped with props for Columbia Picture's 1947 movie Johnny O'Clock directed by Robert Rossen.

Newsboy Brown died on February 18,1977, in Los Angeles, California where he had conducted both his boxing and acting careers.