Henry Armstrong's "high workrate"

so i just watched some footage of henry and his workrate wasn't high at all, he was just throwing one punch at a time and didn't really have any speed. what do u guys mean by his high workrate?:?

 

He threw 80 to 100 punches a round.

 

He was also constantly walking forward and pressuring his opponents. His workrate is ridiculous. What fights or highlights were you watching?

 

not sure what fight you watched. every fight ive seen hes been an absolute non stop whirlwind

 

ah I get it, its a wind up :good

 

i just watched the barney ross fight and a couple highlights, he was just moving forward constantly, but i didn't see much combos or high volume punches that people seem to mention on this thread. "henry was a nonstop punching machine"

 

Aaron Pryor is far more energetic the buzz saw the hawk

 

i think a lot of pressure fighters look better than henry on film to be honest

 

His work rate is exaggerated but he was still very aggressive and still a lot of punches per round. People used to say he threw 300 punches per round and thats just stupid.

 

I would think that a human throwing 300 punches a round would be close to impossible. That is 1.67 punches per second. Have there been any fighters who threw as many as 150 punches a round? Even that would be very hard to believe.

- Chuck Johnston

 

Some of the footage I've seen of him is just ridiculous. It looked like he never stopped coming forward and threw 100 punches a round without breaking a sweat. Guy looks like a machine sometimes.

 

Just a quick check of compubox for 2013 shows

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Those aren't the records though. I remember seeing a guy back around 2002 or so lose a fight breaking his own record for most punches thrown, but his opponent had good defense and landed just as often while maintaining a lower output.


Found this over at yahoo answers
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Another factor to keep in mind is that those guys who were throwing all those punches per round were cream puff punchers by and large. Armstrong was a KO puncher. If you were to throw 2-300 KO punches per round youd be dead tired by round 2 or 3.

 

I think Calzaghe had pretty high punch stats against Lacy.

 

Real good point. The guy worked harder than most fighters and you could subtract his punch output from the equation.

That constant upper body movement and everything he did not punching is just a pleasure to watch. It sure would have been miserable fighting that movement and then go ahead and add a volume of punches to the mix. From both hands.

So often we see the guys like a Juan Laporte who just don't let their hands go once they are in position. Armstrong got himself in position via hardwork and then really let those hands go.