This 10-round, non-title bout was a matchmaker’s dream - the boxer versus the slugger; the Jew versus the Italian. The magnetic appeal of the match was evidenced by the size of the crowd: 20,586, which paid $66,749. When Mike Jacobs was handed the cashier’s slip after the doors had been squeezed shut, he grinned slyly and said, “Hell, the place only seats 18,000. Where did you put the rest of them?”
Davis was completely out-classed in this bout. By the end of the 10th round, his swings were missing by as much as three feet.
One judge and the referee gave Ambers eight rounds, while the other judge gave Ambers seven rounds, Davis two, and one even.
