He was at one time a claimant to the original World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship, having decisions over Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Jim Londos, before his defeat by Chief Little Beaver in 1937.
He also formed successful tag teams with Wee Willie Davis, both as themselves and masked wrestlers Los Hermanos Diablos, and Ted Christy[6] in NWA Hollywood Wrestling between 1947 and 1955.
On July 20, 1938, after defeating Yvon Robert in a Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match at the Montreal Forum, a French-Canadian man broke through the police cordon and slashed him in the face.
Officials finally took action against Davis for breaking the left shoulder of Vincent Lopez in front of 11,000 fans at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in 1947,[4] issuing him an eight-month suspension.
[1] Davis became a born-again Christian during the mid-1950s,[9][12] appearing with fellow wrestlers Jules Strongbow and Tiny Roebuck at the Church of the Open Door for a Youth for Christ rally in June 1956,[13] and was also ordained as a Pentecostal minister.
[3] In his later years, Davis was critical of the pro wrestling industry as it began to focus more on "gimmick characters", such as Gorgeous George and Classy Freddie Blassie, designed to appeal to television audiences.
[18] At the time of his death, Davis was living alone, destitute and surviving on social security having lost most of his money through bad investments over the years.
He had two more children[7] from a second marriage prior to marrying his third wife, Clara Louise Deburn (1927–2001) in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956.