Armstrongs ranking at Featherweight and Lightweight

No primary sources or press clippings but that's the man's account of it.

1)Yes, easily.

2)Hard to say. I think he goes very far on wars with ambers here.

 

This is the problem with ranking weight hoppers, Armstrong also fought top FWs and LWs at the WW limit. He didn't face Burley/Holman/Cocoa Kid at WW though, which are all WW black marks imo

 

Yeah, Top10 fw, even Top5 icould be argued.

At lightweight his 1-1 over Ambers goes a long way, especially since his loss is highly controversial and he got points deducted for which Ambers didn´t. So, he probably should be 2-0 there. That´s better than anything JMM did so far by far - I don´t think JMM is anywhere close to Top10 at lw. Arguellos combined sfw and lw resume is better though. I think you can rank Armstrong as a Top10 lw but you also can make a terific Top10 lw list without him. Stacked division that is.

 

Depends if Bodhi likes them or not Armstrong 'Yes', Walker 'Yes', 'Jones' 'No, not enough fights'

I find Arguello and Armstrong to compare and contrast, 2 incredibly different styles and careers in very different eras

Well I suppose it depends if you give bonus points to results at higher weights. Armstrong was 132lbs against Ross too, a small LW. That's a problem I have with lists. Armstrong's a great fighter but at WW isn't really a great H2H fighter because he's too small

 

Yes and no.

If the quality of the opponent is good enough and the division is weak enough, yeah. See Jones Jr. at smw. His win over Toney is good enough to get him even into the Top5.

On the other hand you have a stacked lw division and a fighter with two wins over an undoubtly prime atg lw. Now, it depends on how much you think of Ambers. If you have him at Top5, which is not unreasonable, this can elevate Armstrong into the Top10. If you have Ambers borderline Top10, which isn´t unreasonable either, than you can´t rank Armstong Top10. So, Armstrong´s ranking at lw depends mostly on your ranking of Ambers. Personally, I don´t rank Ambers Top5 but I rank him quite close to it which means for Armstrong he is close to the Top10 but not quite in it. At least right now.

 

You think they are prime high-ranked atgs at that weight?