Henry Armstrong vs. Barney Ross

I watched it and it's one of my favorite Armstrong fights!

 

Just goes to prove, one mans meat, is another mans poison !!
For me, I think it showed Armstrong in all his glory, a relentless, unremitting, implacable , fighting machine, and when you consider how much weight he gave away ( not for the first time in WW title fights ) it looks even more impressive, must be in everyone's top 5, no arguments please. keep well.

 

Passing of the torch fight... Ross fought hard and did Ross things in the first couple rounds, then at some point realized that even his best shot on his best day would do nothing to slow Armstrong's assault. From then on out he looks like he's fighting under water... Sad for a great one to go out like that but it happens all the time.

 

Don't need to apologise at all!

 

What is Armstrong’s best performance? ...based on what you’ve seen ?

 

I really enjoyed this fight....

 

Thanks for posting.

I wonder if this outcome was due to Ross going back, or just his running into a fighter with the perfect style to negate his talents. I think Ross's weakness was a lack of power and without power there was no way he could keep Armstrong off. One needs a punch to keep a swarmer off and Armstrong was probably the best swarmer of them all. With Armstrong on top of him all night, all Barney's boxing skills were useless.

Certainly a great performance by Armstrong.

Ross outpointed Canzoneri and McLarnin, but I think they would have had a better shot at Armstrong as each had more power. Such matchups would have been interesting.

 

I'm thinking the same thing!

It's like how I view the Pacquiao-DLH fight. Was Oscar really shot to pieces - or did Pac simply represent a force he had no answer to? In the first round Oscar looked "normal", but after that Pac's relentless aggression took over. I have a feeling, that even the best version of DLH would have been battered by Pac... just like the best version of Ross would against Armstrong.

 

I heard that Armstrong carried Ross in that fight.
I liken Ross to a Phillip Holiday or a Barry Mcquigen type fighter...good, but not great.
The stories about his combat in ww2 are pretty amazing though, if accurately told.
He may not have been as great a fighter as propped up to be, but he was still a real life killer none the less and if his life depended on it in a back alley street fight there's no telling what he might be capable of doing

 

A great, great performance.
I love watching this fight.

 

Personally I think it’s a bad idea for a fighter to carry an opponent...I can’t help but think about Emanuel Steward screaming at Lennox Lewis when he fought Mike Tyson lol