Henry Armstrong - greatest puncher

His single punch power is not that impressive compared to other great punchers. He tended to rely on attrition, rather than the one shot finish like other punchers such as Louis or Robinson.

 

It was more a case of throwing lots of punches. If your throwing so many punches and have the style and stamina to do so you'll wear your opponent down eventually.

 

You must know he is not the greatest puncher in the true sense, a proper banger like a Louis, Hearns, Robinson, Foreman or Tyson but on volume punching he might very well be the best ever since we dont have footage of Greb.

 

Hagler-level puncher

 

He was a puncher in an accumulative way. Arguably the best pressure fighter on film and I guess so since he's a greater swarmer than Frazier was. Nice head movement inside and always pressed the fight I love looking at Armstrong but I wish there was more footage of him such as both fights with Ambers. He also fought Robinson but people forget that because Armstrong was way past it by then while SRR was in his prime.

 

That he was. For the record, there's nothing like watching an intelligent boxer break someone down. It takes focus & commitment and I would take watching that over an early ko anyday. Nothing like a puncher behaving like a surgeon and just picking their shots wisely to eventually stop their opponent. Beauty. I love those Cotto-Hagler-Trinidad-Duran kind of punchers. Trinidad & Duran could spark guys out but that was mainly in the later rounds but I prefer surgeons anyways. Nothing like intelligent pressure & shots.

 

Do you think this was due to him wearing them down first?

Saying that, the twenty seven consecutive knockouts you mentioned were mostly in the early rounds. I guess you'd have to look more into his opposition to see how impressive this really is.

 

Precisely why I agree with Manassa's point on him being quite underrated as a proper banger. By all accounts, his "black-out punch" was a force to be reckoned with all in its own.