Armstrong would've been huge for 130 even in the same-day weigh in era. With 30 hours to rehydrate? Armstrong by a lot. Decision win (nobody below 147 stops a prime Julio), but one that's never close.
Armstrong's defense was his offense. This is a bad way to attack chavez. Bodywork + crippling shots for round after round = Chavez KO
Yeah, but that's underselling him; his head movement coming forward was one of the best there ever was, that guy was elusive coming in, even more so than Chavez. Would be an incredible fight; both men are natural infighters, but they both had the ability to be more circumspect & it'd be interesting to see which one of them if any would come out that way. I can picture Chavez being to one to let Armstrong come to him and try to catch him coming in with straight shots, which he was slightly more vulnerable to. But it could just as easily be Armstrong using his superior legs & speed to try and control things. Bottom line though, either way, after 6 or 7 at the most it'd inevitably turn into a phone booth war.:fightme: Body shots or not, I'd lean towards Armstrong there.
When your offense consists of throwing upwards of 200 punches around, it's not necessarily a bad thing. especially if your opponent will all but concede the first round to you (as would be the case here), and you never tire. And it's not like Henry exactly pardoned the body, either.
If you are throwing that many punches, you are wide open to counters early and often. Chavez punished people who gave him openings and Armstrongs "windmill" attack would get him injured in a bad way against someone like Chavez. Chavez would hurt armstrong, consistently. And when you're hurt your body does strange things. And with Armstrong's attitude and style there's no way he sees the final bell.
Let's see how long this argument can go on before somebody has to admit they have never watched Armstrong's fightsopcorn:
