Search for Manassa as a user and "Henry Armstrong" as search subjects and you will probably find a very nice posting about Armstrong´s three year run from ´37 to ´40 including 18 defences of the welterweighttitle and one defence of the lw title :good
jack kid berg got in quite a few defences and non-title fights in a short space of time during his tenure as light-welter king.different record books have the fights as one or the other though.
Search for the post it´s worth reading it - maybe it even was a thread in it´s own - he also wrote down all the ATGs, HoFer and ring rated contenders Armstrong fought in this timespan. Very impressive :good
Didn't Hank lose just once, by stoppage to Zivic in that time? I might be horrendously wrong, can;t be arsed to check it out :good
I´m too nice I suppose but here it is: The according thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=182240&highlight=henry+armstrong
Manassa needs to come back. I fear his top 100 P4P (extensively researched, as the above post and all of his 'resume breakdown' threads show) may have sent him insane, but the lad is a fantastic poster.
berg was britains version of armstrong,threw as many punches and had the same big lung capacity and slow heart beat. he just wasn't henry,but then again who was ??
That's going a bit far. Armstrong was a much better puncher, for one. And according to many of the accounts I've read, Greb would've more closely resembled someone like Calzaghe than Armstrong as far as his style. An extremely fast paced, in and out swarmer with handspeed matched only by his footspeed. His feet were likely the main reason behind his success against such larger men, despite his lack of commited punching power. That and his granite chin and bulldog strength. There were definitely some similarities between the two, by all accounts, but I wouldn't go so far as to directly compare them in that way. They're interchangeable for me in regards to who I rate higher, both at the very top.
