[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6sE9GSJT6c[/ame] Wild Slugfest. Don't blink your eyes at the beginning of the video because satterfield floors henry very quickly. Henry gets up and then twice floors satterfield before knocking him out cold.
Wow that left hook. How do you rate him as a puncher, Q? I think Henry was just flashed, having seen it only once.
That's one way to respond to being hurt. Not one of Satterfield's best fights, but then again you wouldn't expect to get caught with a seemingly endless barrage of rights and lefts after having knocked down your opponent. Henry seemed to pack power in both hands and had stamina for days.
A good one. John Garfield who saw him live described him as having "Electrifying power in both hands". By 1952, Newspapers were actually rating Clarence Henry on "par" with Heavyweight Champion Jersey joe walcott, and challengers Ezzard Charles and Rocky Marciano. Henry had a very short prime 1950-1952, but he was devastating at times during those years. He posed a threat to anybody out there. He wasn't that big(6'1 185lb), but he packed a wallop in both hands, had terrific handspeed, had a great workrate, and was fearless out there. He had extremely long arms which enabled him to keep opponents at a distance range. Henry was nearly blind when he lost to Hurricane Jackson. John Garfield even said "No way a healthy live henry ever loses to hurricane jackson." I believe he had a condition where he was going blind anyways, but he suffered a beating and detached retina against a peaking Archie Moore and was never the same afterwards. Out of all the contenders of the era, this was a man I wanted Marciano to face the most. That fight would have been one of the best of the decade. Rocky would have eventually won, but it would have been highly entertaining. It would have come off around early 1952 right when both were at the peaks of there careers. Henry would have challenged rocky, but rocky eventually would have smothered him and broken him down. I suspect this slugfest would not have gone past round 6. I would like to add a Marciano-Henry fight should have come off. In 1952, it was brought up to Weill, but Weill avoided Henry and chose Lee Savold instead because weill felt rocky was entitled to an easy road to the title shot since he beat top contenders layne and Louis. It was a high risk/low reward type demand. I do not believe Al Weill ever ducked Nino Valdes. I do not believe Al Weill ever ducked Bob Baker. But Al Weill did avoid Clarence Henry.
I could watch Satterfield all day. He comes to fight. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he looses, but he's never boring.
You hit the nail on the head. That is why despite all the bad losses, he became somewhat of a legend. They don't make them more exciting.