Henry Armstrong thoughts?

There's a nice little starter pack here -

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/a-deeper-dive-on-henry-armstrongs-greatness.710472/

 

I like that he's still recalled from time to time by the mainstream boxing media, even if they often do so to make spurious comparisons with modern greats.
None of them come close. Not Crawford, not Pacquiao. Even an old-timer relative 'modern' like Roberto Duran, great as he was, did not do what Armstrong did.
Winning the featherweight title, then the welterweight title within 7 months, then the lightweight title 3 months after that. That's a ridiculous peak.

 

What the footage of Armstrong shows us, is a very good infighter.

If you wanted to tech someone to infight, you could do a lot worse than showing them footage of Armstrong.

 

Hi Buddy.
Interesting how we all see/view fighters differently, I wouldnt describe Armstrong as a " puncher " for me a was a tireless fighting machine, sure he had a high KO percentage, but that was due to his accumulative punching as to a single punch, the likes of Duran Rosario and Jenkins, are what I would say are LW punchers, but as I say we see fighters differently, that's what makes the forum so interesting.
stay safe McGrain, chat soon.
Mike.

 

I won't answer for McGrain but when you dive deep into Armstrong his power has become quite underrated, especially around featherweght.

 

Never seen a fight work himself in, shoulder to shoulder,as intensely as he did.
Manic energy guy,one of a kind.

 

And fighting to a draw for the middleweight title, don’t forget.

He reasonably could have been holding belts in four of the eight weight classes.

 

Hi JT.
Sorry my much liked fellow poster, but still not entirely on board with Armstrong being a " enormous puncher " as put by McGrain in his recent post, sure lots of KOs on his way up the FW ranks, but mainly against nondescript nobodys, he did KO Bass and Wright, but thinking they might be not the fighters they were at that time, the few good fighters he did face, Arizmendi, Wolgast, and Belloise, he won on points, then there was the 2 fights with Jenkins, first fight Jenkins got up 6 times, the second fight he got up 7 times, Al Davis got up 3 times, as stated Zannelli was knocked down 4 times, is this the mark of a big puncher ! add to this when the calibre of fighter was upgraded as in Roderick, Ambers, Zivic, Garcia, there were no knockdowns, as far as I can remember, for me big/ enormous punchers are the likes of, Jackson, Shavers, Benn, Foster, Cueva's, etc, so for me Armstrong stays in the volume puncher category, not a powder puff, but not a KO artist in the strict sense of the word.
stay safe buddy, chat soon.
Mike.

 

Excellent find JT

 

Only rub Mike is how much he went up in weight … in the lighter divisions he was a pretty decent puncher

 

Cheers HG

 

Enormous may or may not be stretching it but he's a puncher when all things are taken into account. It's a good discussion tho mate.