After Lou Ambers took the lightweight championship from Armstrong, hard-hitting counter-puncher Lew Jenkins stunned everyone by obliterating Ambers in just three rounds. The non-title showdown between Jenkins and Armstrong in front of 23,000 fans at the open-air Polo Grounds in New York was one of the most anticipated of Armstrong’s career. To everyone’s astonishment, Armstrong dropped Jenkins seven times in six rounds and the referee stopped the fight after a delirious Jenkins fell off his stool.
After losing two decisions to Arizmendi that he felt should have gone his way, Armstrong was seething for a third go at the Mexican slugger. Chapter three in an all-time great rivalry went down in front of nearly 11,000 fans at L.A.’s Wrigley Field as Armstrong established himself as the top contender in the featherweight division by outslugging his rival from start to finish. “Double barreled destruction vomited in the Baby’s face sixty seconds of every minute and every minute of every round,” reported The Los Angeles Examiner. Featherweight champ Petey Sarron sat pale as a ghost at ringside and was heard to mutter, “I’m glad I’m not in there with Armstrong tonight.”
A little less than fifteen months after his first win over Arizmendi, Armstrong challenged lightning-quick and rugged Hall of Famer Sarron for the featherweight championship of the world. Most expected Sarron to carefully box the feared “Hurricane Henry,” but he surprised everyone by outworking Armstrong in the early rounds. Badly trailing by the sixth, Armstrong unleashed a fuselade of blows “with the suddenness of a cobra striking its prey,” and Sarron was counted out on his knees. It was the only knockout loss of Sarron’s 135-fight career. Henry Armstrong had won his first world championship.
Three titles in three divisions at the same time. It’s the first thing anyone learns about Henry Armstrong. His defining accomplishment came against the skilled and rugged lightweight champion Ambers at Madison Square Garden in one of boxing history’s most vicious wars. His mouth severely cut early, Henry spit out his mouthpiece and spent several rounds swallowing his own blood to keep the fight from being stopped. Fighting like “a perfect little demon,” he dropped Ambers twice in a ferocious back-and-forth war to win a unanimous decision in The Ring’s Fight of the Year. Years later, Henry still remembered it as the hardest fight of his career. Even so, it wasn’t truly his best performance.
Success comes at a cost. Henry Armstrong, with damage visible around both eyes, receives 15 stitches to a lip wound in the aftermath of his historic 15-round split decision win over Lou Ambers at Madison Square Garden in 1938. Henry commented: "That was about as hard a fight as I ever had... don't let anybody tell you Lou can't punch. Love taps didn't do this."
Featherweight champion Armstrong was hurdling up two full weight classes to take on welterweight champion Barney Ross; it was unprecedented. And Ross was no typical champion. A skilled, quick, and tough-as-nails competitor, he had shared the ring with legends, was a multi-division champ, and was considered by many to be the best boxer in the sport. It didn’t matter. Despite a noticeable size disadvantage, a prime Henry Armstrong unrelentingly battered Ross from corner to corner of the Madison Square Garden Bowl ring for fifteen straight rounds. Though he made it to the finish line, Ross “looked like one who had been crushed by a threshing machine,” wrote Nat Fleischer.
Some will say Ross was an old, worn-out fighter when Henry got to him, and it was true he he’d had many hard scraps against some of the very best of all-time, but Armstrong was in fact the older man (Henry claimed 1912 as his birthdate, but he was born in 1909), had engaged in more pro fights than Ross, and Henry always fought hard. So, if anyone should have been affected by age and activity, it should have been “Homicide Hank.” The facts are, Ross was younger (even if only by a few days), had less miles on him, and had every physical advantage. More to the point, Ross was a 7-to-5 betting favorite going into the fight. If Barney appeared ruined after facing Armstrong, it was only in hindsight. “You’re the greatest,” Ross told Henry after the final bell. After such an astonishing performance, no one could disagree.
Images from Henry Armstrong vs. Sugar Ray Robinson on August 27, 1943. Armstrong was past his prime at this point in his career and needed a financial payday and sought the match with Robinson. Robinson initially refused, stating, "I can't fight you, Henry. You were my idol."
Henry Armstrong vs Chalky Wright on February 1st, 1938 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
"Hammerin' Hank" went right after Wright and forced him to cover up from round 1 onward. In round 2, a sustained assault sent Wright to the canvas and he held fast until the bell. In the 3rd, a right hand put Wright down. He got up and absorbed a number of punches, then ate a right hand that put him down for the count.
Savage photo of Henry Armstrong landing a hard left square to the face of Fritzie Zivic in Madison Square Garden, New York, New York on January 17, 1941.
An official rushes to intervene after Henry Armstrong knocks down Johnny Cabello at Griffith's Stadium, Washington DC on August 21, 1937. Henry Armstrong won the fight by corner retirement (RTD) in the 1st round. This victory was part of a legendary, rapid-fire 26 knockout streak for Armstrong during his historic 1937 run.
Henry Armstrong had 101 career knockouts, one of the highest knockout totals in history. He once had a 27-knockout streak, which is one of the longest even by modern standards. His smothering pressure and work rate contributed to his high knockout tally, the sheer volume of punches he threw wore fighters down until they could no longer take it.
Eddie Meade, famous singer Al Jolson, and Henry Armstrong. It's fascinating how these three got together. Al Jolson was one of Henry Armstrong's co-managers and financial backers who helped launch his historic championship career. In 1937, Jolson and fellow Hollywood actor George Raft pooled $10,000 to buy Armstrong's contract after being impressed by his dynamic fighting style. Jolson placed Armstrong under the day-to-day management of his friend Eddie Meade, guiding Armstrong as he achieved the unprecedented feat of holding three world titles simultaneously in different weight classes.
ESPN
Little Big Men: Henry Armstrong
Armstrong was the only boxer to hold three world titles simultaneously.
Henry Armstrong was a physical loan shark, a fighter who adopted General Clausewitz's theory that the winning general is the one who can impose his will upon the enemy. One hundred fifty-one times Armstrong imposed his will on his opponents, suffocating them in his swarming style, firing off his punches and then running over them, much like a runaway locomotive, with a ten-ton truck rumbling over their remains for good measure.
But the perpetual-motion machine might have been a mere footnote to boxing history had it not been for the fact that one of the members of his managerial brain trust was entertainer Al Jolson. And that Armstrong's greatest year, 1937, was also the year of Joe Louis. Until 1934, Henry Armstrong had been a struggling featherweight, fighting in and around Los Angeles with mixed results against opponents who remain almost as unknown as the soldier under the tombstone in Arlington. During one of the weekly Hollywood Legion fights, in front of a star-studded crowd, Armstrong distinguished himself, scoring a sensational knockout. Two of the stars, Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson, took a liking to the human hurricane and underwrote the purchase of his contract for their friend, Eddie Meade. All of a sudden his fortunes improved. And so did the caliber of his opponents.
By 1937 betting on Armstrong was like getting money from home without writing. He fought an incredible 27 times that year and won all, and all but one by KO. Together, Armstrong and his manager didn't care what the opposition weighed or what their credentials were. They took on anybody and everybody regardless of race, creed, or weight, fighting featherweights, a few lightweights, and a sprinkling of welterweights as well. But because Joe Louis had just won the heavyweight championship, and because Armstrong never shared Louis's celebrity status, they determined a course of action that would make more money. And, not incidentally, make ring history at the same time.
Armstrong remembered the meeting between Meade, himself, Jolson, and George Raft, another financial backer: "Joe Louis was going to take all the popularity, everything away from me, from all the fighters, because everyone was saving their money to see Joe Louis fight." That's when someone hit upon the idea that rivaled all the promotional ideas that emanated from Hollywood in those days, all spelled "colossal," "stupendous," "bigger-than-life." The idea, simply stated, was to go after three titles.
Now Meade & Co. started moving Armstrong along in the boxing world willfully, their collective eye on three brass rings. Armstrong took the first olive out of the jar in October 1937: the featherweight title, beating Pete Sarron in six rounds. With the 126-pound title stashed safely away, Armstrong and Meade turned to heavier -- and more lucrative -- challenges. Fourteen more fights, and 14 more wins followed, and then Armstrong was matched with welterweight king, Barney Ross. Despite a 9-pound pull in their weights, the Perpetual-Motion Machine took the fight to Ross and the crown from the gallant warrior, halting his whirlwind attack only long enough to carry Ross through the last five rounds.
With the welter title now added to his collection, the man who sought more crowns than Charlemagne now played the part of the original Indian rubber man and dropped down to lightweight to wrest the crown from Lou Ambers in a brutal fight that had Armstrong swallowing his own blood for the last six rounds in fear the bout would be stopped. Three titles in a little more than nine months, a hat trick that was indeed something "stupendous, colossal, and bigger-than-life." (Armstrong would try for yet another crown, the middleweight title in a fight against Ceferino Garcia. But even though Armstrong won handily, the decision came down a draw, one of boxing's little prearrangements that weigh more heavily than any opponent.).
No one who ever saw this fighter, known as "Hammerin' Hank" or "Homicide Hank" or "Hurricane Hank," will ever forget him: a nonstop punching machine, his style more rhythmic than headlong, his matchstick legs akimbo, his arms crossed in front of his face, racing the clock with each punch, and each punch punctuated by a grunt. His likes will never be seen again. The feats of Henry Armstrong are a benchmark against which all future generations will be measured.
Man, the new layout on the forum is terrible, it's uncomfortable, and you can't even edit mistakes after a post. If this is going to be permanent then the forum is now a shell of it's former self. Why mess with something that's already perfect?
Henry Armstrong has his hand raised after his historic victory over Barney Ross on May 31, 1938 at Madison Square Garden. With this win, Armstrong captured the World Welterweight Title and became the first fighter in boxing history to simultaneously hold three world titles (featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight).
Henry Armstrong has his hand raised after capturing the World Lightweight Title over Lou Ambers on August 17, 1938 at Madison Square Garden. Armstrong put on one of the most savage performances in boxing history that night, Ambers badly cut Armstrong's mouth and tore his bottom lip, causing heavy bleeding onto the canvas floor. Referee Billy Cavanaugh threatened to stop the bout if Armstrong continued to spill blood all over the ring. To keep the blood from pouring out of his mouth or dripping onto the canvas, Armstrong had his corner remove his gum-shield (mouthpiece). He spent the final five rounds swallowing his own blood to ensure the bout would not be stopped, all the while continuing his relentless attack.
I had a chance to buy this photo of Henry Armstrong a while back but somebody got to it before me. Nice up close image with the hood from his robe over his head.
Ring Magazine championship belt awarded to Henry Armstrong after his victory over Lou Ambers in 1938 which recognized Armstrong as World Featherweight Champion, World Lightweight Champion and World Welterweight Champion at the same time. This was the first time in boxing history anyone had held three titles at the same time. This treasure is currently for sale, with an asking price of $1 million.
This image really captures the epitomy of what Henry Armstrong was about as a fighter, his head on Ernie Roderick's shoulder, outworking him down in the trenches in 1939.
I have to say it again, the new layout of the forum is horrible, it's ugly and extremely uncomfortable. Should have stayed with the old layout, it was perfect. If this is going to be permanent, it's going to be a shell of it's former self.
Sir Henry Cooper, British heavyweight remembered for his legendary left hook is up next. That left hook was known as "Enry's Hammer", and he almost took a young Muhammad Ali out with it in 1963. He was the British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion for 12 years and a multiple-time European heavyweight champion. We'll start with a 2011 Ringside Boxing Round Two - Turkey Red - Base - Henry Cooper.
I can't get used to the new layout on the forum, the atmosphere sucks. Anyway, here is an awesome uncut panel 1969-70 Panini - Campioni Dello Sport - Henry Cooper/Bjoern Wirkola.
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Lew Jenkins, TKO 7, March 1, 1940.
After Lou Ambers took the lightweight championship from Armstrong, hard-hitting counter-puncher Lew Jenkins stunned everyone by obliterating Ambers in just three rounds. The non-title showdown between Jenkins and Armstrong in front of 23,000 fans at the open-air Polo Grounds in New York was one of the most anticipated of Armstrong’s career. To everyone’s astonishment, Armstrong dropped Jenkins seven times in six rounds and the referee stopped the fight after a delirious Jenkins fell off his stool.
Baby Arizmendi, W 10, August 4, 1936.
After losing two decisions to Arizmendi that he felt should have gone his way, Armstrong was seething for a third go at the Mexican slugger. Chapter three in an all-time great rivalry went down in front of nearly 11,000 fans at L.A.’s Wrigley Field as Armstrong established himself as the top contender in the featherweight division by outslugging his rival from start to finish. “Double barreled destruction vomited in the Baby’s face sixty seconds of every minute and every minute of every round,” reported The Los Angeles Examiner. Featherweight champ Petey Sarron sat pale as a ghost at ringside and was heard to mutter, “I’m glad I’m not in there with Armstrong tonight.”
Petey Sarron, KO 6, October 29, 1937.
A little less than fifteen months after his first win over Arizmendi, Armstrong challenged lightning-quick and rugged Hall of Famer Sarron for the featherweight championship of the world. Most expected Sarron to carefully box the feared “Hurricane Henry,” but he surprised everyone by outworking Armstrong in the early rounds. Badly trailing by the sixth, Armstrong unleashed a fuselade of blows “with the suddenness of a cobra striking its prey,” and Sarron was counted out on his knees. It was the only knockout loss of Sarron’s 135-fight career. Henry Armstrong had won his first world championship.
Lou Ambers, W 15, August 17, 1938.
Three titles in three divisions at the same time. It’s the first thing anyone learns about Henry Armstrong. His defining accomplishment came against the skilled and rugged lightweight champion Ambers at Madison Square Garden in one of boxing history’s most vicious wars. His mouth severely cut early, Henry spit out his mouthpiece and spent several rounds swallowing his own blood to keep the fight from being stopped. Fighting like “a perfect little demon,” he dropped Ambers twice in a ferocious back-and-forth war to win a unanimous decision in The Ring’s Fight of the Year. Years later, Henry still remembered it as the hardest fight of his career. Even so, it wasn’t truly his best performance.
Success comes at a cost. Henry Armstrong, with damage visible around both eyes, receives 15 stitches to a lip wound in the aftermath of his historic 15-round split decision win over Lou Ambers at Madison Square Garden in 1938. Henry commented: "That was about as hard a fight as I ever had... don't let anybody tell you Lou can't punch. Love taps didn't do this."
Barney Ross, W 15, May 31, 1938.
Featherweight champion Armstrong was hurdling up two full weight classes to take on welterweight champion Barney Ross; it was unprecedented. And Ross was no typical champion. A skilled, quick, and tough-as-nails competitor, he had shared the ring with legends, was a multi-division champ, and was considered by many to be the best boxer in the sport. It didn’t matter. Despite a noticeable size disadvantage, a prime Henry Armstrong unrelentingly battered Ross from corner to corner of the Madison Square Garden Bowl ring for fifteen straight rounds. Though he made it to the finish line, Ross “looked like one who had been crushed by a threshing machine,” wrote Nat Fleischer.
Some will say Ross was an old, worn-out fighter when Henry got to him, and it was true he he’d had many hard scraps against some of the very best of all-time, but Armstrong was in fact the older man (Henry claimed 1912 as his birthdate, but he was born in 1909), had engaged in more pro fights than Ross, and Henry always fought hard. So, if anyone should have been affected by age and activity, it should have been “Homicide Hank.” The facts are, Ross was younger (even if only by a few days), had less miles on him, and had every physical advantage. More to the point, Ross was a 7-to-5 betting favorite going into the fight. If Barney appeared ruined after facing Armstrong, it was only in hindsight. “You’re the greatest,” Ross told Henry after the final bell. After such an astonishing performance, no one could disagree.
Images from Henry Armstrong vs. Sugar Ray Robinson on August 27, 1943. Armstrong was past his prime at this point in his career and needed a financial payday and sought the match with Robinson. Robinson initially refused, stating, "I can't fight you, Henry. You were my idol."
Henry Armstrong vs Chalky Wright on February 1st, 1938 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
"Hammerin' Hank" went right after Wright and forced him to cover up from round 1 onward. In round 2, a sustained assault sent Wright to the canvas and he held fast until the bell. In the 3rd, a right hand put Wright down. He got up and absorbed a number of punches, then ate a right hand that put him down for the count.
I can see we have a new format on the forum, I sure hope this doesn't last, it's horrible. If something isn't broken, people shouldn't try to fix it.
Savage photo of Henry Armstrong landing a hard left square to the face of Fritzie Zivic in Madison Square Garden, New York, New York on January 17, 1941.
An official rushes to intervene after Henry Armstrong knocks down Johnny Cabello at Griffith's Stadium, Washington DC on August 21, 1937. Henry Armstrong won the fight by corner retirement (RTD) in the 1st round. This victory was part of a legendary, rapid-fire 26 knockout streak for Armstrong during his historic 1937 run.
Henry Armstrong with the bloody eye during his fight with Fritzie Zivic on October 4, 1940. Armstrong was a savage.
Henry Armstrong knocks out Joe Brown in the 2nd round of their bout in 1937. Brutal photo.
Henry Armstrong had 101 career knockouts, one of the highest knockout totals in history. He once had a 27-knockout streak, which is one of the longest even by modern standards. His smothering pressure and work rate contributed to his high knockout tally, the sheer volume of punches he threw wore fighters down until they could no longer take it.
Eddie Meade, famous singer Al Jolson, and Henry Armstrong. It's fascinating how these three got together. Al Jolson was one of Henry Armstrong's co-managers and financial backers who helped launch his historic championship career. In 1937, Jolson and fellow Hollywood actor George Raft pooled $10,000 to buy Armstrong's contract after being impressed by his dynamic fighting style. Jolson placed Armstrong under the day-to-day management of his friend Eddie Meade, guiding Armstrong as he achieved the unprecedented feat of holding three world titles simultaneously in different weight classes.
ESPN
Little Big Men: Henry Armstrong
Armstrong was the only boxer to hold three world titles simultaneously.
Henry Armstrong was a physical loan shark, a fighter who adopted General Clausewitz's theory that the winning general is the one who can impose his will upon the enemy. One hundred fifty-one times Armstrong imposed his will on his opponents, suffocating them in his swarming style, firing off his punches and then running over them, much like a runaway locomotive, with a ten-ton truck rumbling over their remains for good measure.
But the perpetual-motion machine might have been a mere footnote to boxing history had it not been for the fact that one of the members of his managerial brain trust was entertainer Al Jolson. And that Armstrong's greatest year, 1937, was also the year of Joe Louis. Until 1934, Henry Armstrong had been a struggling featherweight, fighting in and around Los Angeles with mixed results against opponents who remain almost as unknown as the soldier under the tombstone in Arlington. During one of the weekly Hollywood Legion fights, in front of a star-studded crowd, Armstrong distinguished himself, scoring a sensational knockout. Two of the stars, Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson, took a liking to the human hurricane and underwrote the purchase of his contract for their friend, Eddie Meade. All of a sudden his fortunes improved. And so did the caliber of his opponents.
By 1937 betting on Armstrong was like getting money from home without writing. He fought an incredible 27 times that year and won all, and all but one by KO. Together, Armstrong and his manager didn't care what the opposition weighed or what their credentials were. They took on anybody and everybody regardless of race, creed, or weight, fighting featherweights, a few lightweights, and a sprinkling of welterweights as well. But because Joe Louis had just won the heavyweight championship, and because Armstrong never shared Louis's celebrity status, they determined a course of action that would make more money. And, not incidentally, make ring history at the same time.
Armstrong remembered the meeting between Meade, himself, Jolson, and George Raft, another financial backer: "Joe Louis was going to take all the popularity, everything away from me, from all the fighters, because everyone was saving their money to see Joe Louis fight." That's when someone hit upon the idea that rivaled all the promotional ideas that emanated from Hollywood in those days, all spelled "colossal," "stupendous," "bigger-than-life." The idea, simply stated, was to go after three titles.
Now Meade & Co. started moving Armstrong along in the boxing world willfully, their collective eye on three brass rings. Armstrong took the first olive out of the jar in October 1937: the featherweight title, beating Pete Sarron in six rounds. With the 126-pound title stashed safely away, Armstrong and Meade turned to heavier -- and more lucrative -- challenges. Fourteen more fights, and 14 more wins followed, and then Armstrong was matched with welterweight king, Barney Ross. Despite a 9-pound pull in their weights, the Perpetual-Motion Machine took the fight to Ross and the crown from the gallant warrior, halting his whirlwind attack only long enough to carry Ross through the last five rounds.
With the welter title now added to his collection, the man who sought more crowns than Charlemagne now played the part of the original Indian rubber man and dropped down to lightweight to wrest the crown from Lou Ambers in a brutal fight that had Armstrong swallowing his own blood for the last six rounds in fear the bout would be stopped. Three titles in a little more than nine months, a hat trick that was indeed something "stupendous, colossal, and bigger-than-life." (Armstrong would try for yet another crown, the middleweight title in a fight against Ceferino Garcia. But even though Armstrong won handily, the decision came down a draw, one of boxing's little prearrangements that weigh more heavily than any opponent.).
No one who ever saw this fighter, known as "Hammerin' Hank" or "Homicide Hank" or "Hurricane Hank," will ever forget him: a nonstop punching machine, his style more rhythmic than headlong, his matchstick legs akimbo, his arms crossed in front of his face, racing the clock with each punch, and each punch punctuated by a grunt. His likes will never be seen again. The feats of Henry Armstrong are a benchmark against which all future generations will be measured.
Man, the new layout on the forum is terrible, it's uncomfortable, and you can't even edit mistakes after a post. If this is going to be permanent then the forum is now a shell of it's former self. Why mess with something that's already perfect?
Henry Armstrong training.
This is an awesome image of Henry Armstrong in an artistic way. Reminds me of the little boy in the Picasso painting, "The Tragedy." A deep painting.
"The Tragedy" (1903) by Pablo Picasso, this painting has literally changed lives.
One of my favorite photos of Henry Armstrong, hats off to you.
Wicked image of Henry Armstrong flexing.
Henry Armstrong nursing a swollen eye after his fight with Lou Ambers on August 22, 1939. They had one heck of a rivalry.
Henry Armstrong bangs away speed bag.
Albert "Chalky" Wright and Henry Armstrong taking a jog. These two greats combined for 190 knockouts, Wright (87 KO) and Armstrong (101 KO).
Henry Armstrong has his hand raised after his historic victory over Barney Ross on May 31, 1938 at Madison Square Garden. With this win, Armstrong captured the World Welterweight Title and became the first fighter in boxing history to simultaneously hold three world titles (featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight).
Henry Armstrong has his hand raised after capturing the World Lightweight Title over Lou Ambers on August 17, 1938 at Madison Square Garden. Armstrong put on one of the most savage performances in boxing history that night, Ambers badly cut Armstrong's mouth and tore his bottom lip, causing heavy bleeding onto the canvas floor. Referee Billy Cavanaugh threatened to stop the bout if Armstrong continued to spill blood all over the ring. To keep the blood from pouring out of his mouth or dripping onto the canvas, Armstrong had his corner remove his gum-shield (mouthpiece). He spent the final five rounds swallowing his own blood to ensure the bout would not be stopped, all the while continuing his relentless attack.
One of my favorite photos of Henry Armstrong in a fight pose.
I just ran across this, really cool, the 1955 Fantomen Comic - Masters of the Ring - Henry Armstrong.
"I used to knock out so many guys, my trademark was the skull and crossbones."
Henry Armstrong wearing the mask headgear. I love this image, he looks like he's straight out of a horror movie.
I had a chance to buy this photo of Henry Armstrong a while back but somebody got to it before me. Nice up close image with the hood from his robe over his head.
Ring Magazine championship belt awarded to Henry Armstrong after his victory over Lou Ambers in 1938 which recognized Armstrong as World Featherweight Champion, World Lightweight Champion and World Welterweight Champion at the same time. This was the first time in boxing history anyone had held three titles at the same time. This treasure is currently for sale, with an asking price of $1 million.
Henry Armstrong with the shadow behind him.
The "Perpetual Motion Machine."
Nice sequence of photos showing Henry Armstrong in his prime.
Awesome image of Henry Armstrong photographed with his arms folded while training for Lew Jenkins in 1940.
"Homicide Hank" on the cover of the November 1937 issue of The Ring magazine. Awesome cover art.
The famous photos of Henry Armstrong taken in 1937 by artistic photographer Carl Van Vechten.
I love this image of Henry Armstrong speaking into the microphone after winning the World Welterweight title in 1939.
This image really captures the epitomy of what Henry Armstrong was about as a fighter, his head on Ernie Roderick's shoulder, outworking him down in the trenches in 1939.
The great Henry Armstrong, aka "Homicide Hank."
Henry Armstrong, defensive slips and rolls.
Henry Armstrong, legendary champion.
THE book on Henry Armstrong, highly recommended.
I have to say it again, the new layout of the forum is horrible, it's ugly and extremely uncomfortable. Should have stayed with the old layout, it was perfect. If this is going to be permanent, it's going to be a shell of it's former self.
Sir Henry Cooper, British heavyweight remembered for his legendary left hook is up next. That left hook was known as "Enry's Hammer", and he almost took a young Muhammad Ali out with it in 1963. He was the British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion for 12 years and a multiple-time European heavyweight champion. We'll start with a 2011 Ringside Boxing Round Two - Turkey Red - Base - Henry Cooper.
2011 Ringside Boxing Round Two - Base - Henry Cooper.
2011 Ringside Boxing Round Two - Base - Henry Cooper.
Monster card right here, the 2010 Ringside Boxing Round One - Cut Signatures #1/1 - Henry Cooper.
I can't get used to the new layout on the forum, the atmosphere sucks. Anyway, here is an awesome uncut panel 1969-70 Panini - Campioni Dello Sport - Henry Cooper/Bjoern Wirkola.