- Boxer. Middleweight Champion from 1926-1931. Is in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
- Boxed professionally from 1919 to 1935. Held the world welterweight championship from 1922 to 1926 and the world middleweight championship from 1926 to 1931.
- After retiring from boxing, Walker gained notice as a painter of portraits, landscapes and abstracts. He presented a one-man show at the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York City in 1955.
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