No relation.
<b><font size=3>Spug Myers</b></font>
Junior Welterweight
b. 1903-01-02
d. 1979-11-18
Home: Pocatello, Ida.
Trainer: Spider Roach
Career, 1919-34
<a href="http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=050355" target="_blank">Record</a>: 69-28-23 (26)
Style: Slugger
Fouls occasionally
CFB/S 7/8
HP 2
CKD 2
CKO 0
REC 3
CUTS 2
AP 3
KI 6
AGG 8
END 9
DEF 4
FS 1
OR 2
DP 1
CON 3
INT 6
PRF 10
FI 3
FO 2
CU 1
GK 2
CLI 72
Punches
J 20.5/1.25
H 20.5/1.25
CR 20.5/1.25
CB 15/1
UC 17.5/1.25
PL 36
CP 34
PM 64
Rate 4
Myers, who started boxing professionally when he was still in high school, fought Mushy Callahan for the junior welterweight title in 1927, and lost on points in ten rounds. He had defeated Callahan over the same distance just three months before, but the championship was not on the line.
Myers got to the championship bout by defeating Billy Alger, Lou Paluso, Russie Leroy, and Sid Barbarian, and by fighting Billy Petrolle and Tommy Freeman to no-decisions.
The title shot marked the pinnacle of Myers's career. After that he started losing with some regularity, although to good fighters--Callahan, Petrolle, Stanislaus Loayza, Sammy Mandell, Jackie (Kid) Berg, Manuel Quintero.
I have no idea what the nickname "Spug" means. One newspaper writer, detailing his victory over Barbarian, said that Myers "was true to the tenets of the society for the preservation of useless giving, represented by his nickname and made the blows he gave count."