There are only 2 Men who in the history of the Light Weight division that I would even consider betting with against Duran. One is Benny Leonard the other is Armstrong. Henry had the heart, chin, and punch to compete with Duran at this weight. His weakness of course was his tendency to bleed. This could turn into a Zivic - Armstrong affair, with both Men pulling every dirty trick in the book. I would give this one to Duran by a shade based on Henrys' suseptability to cut and because of Durans better defensive skills.
Duran was the far more technically skilled of the two, and would out-point and out-skill Armstrong throughout enough of the bout to take the decision over 15, but rest assured Armstrong would take his share of rounds based purely on his non-stop workrate while Duran was in a more coasting mode. 10-5 type decision for Duran in a barn-burner.
It would of been a good close fight, but Duran just had abit more of everything. I would of love to have seen this
Could go either way, but Duran would probably pull out a majority decision over Armstrong by the thinnest of margins.
I agree with the above, but I will add one lightweight I saw at his best ringside. Fellow by the name of Ike Williams, who "uncuffed" and at 135 pounds was just "under" the WW Ray Robinson in the early 1940s...Ike was a lean and mean conmbination puncher who had these guys as competition all in their primes...Beau Jack, Bob Montgomery,Sammy Angott, Willie Joyce, Freddie Dawson etc...Which LWs did Duran beat that compared to those guys above ? Ike Williams was so feared as a lightweight great that the 2 great featherweights of those halycon days, Pep and Saddler,though they tackled LWs, never challenged Ike Williams. They KNEW better...
armstrong 2/1 in a trilogy duran seems at his best when he convinced himself he hated his opponent, hank seems like he was a fun guy to be around from the v.small footage ive seen of him outside the ring plus armstrong had a harder headbutt
