H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Henry Armstrong
Welterweight · United States
Henry Armstrong ranks #3 in the H&G All-Time Index at Welterweight, with a 98.09 All-Time Index score and a 149-21-10 professional record. His best wins on record include Barney Ross, Lou Ambers and Sammy Angott. His career span on this page is 1932-1945.
- All-time rank
- #3Inner Circle
- H&G All-Time Index
- 98.090-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 149-21-10Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1932-1945
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Henry Armstrong's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Signature wins
- Barney Ross - 1938 - signature win
- Lou Ambers - 1938 - signature win
- Sammy Angott - 1943 - signature win
- Tippy Larkin - 1943 - signature win
- Pedro Montanez - 1940 - signature win
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 1,662 |
| 1933 | 1,698 |
| 1934 | 1,726 |
| 1935 | 1,785 |
| 1936 | 1,881 |
| 1937 | 1,957 |
| 1938 | 1,974 |
| 1939 | 1,973 |
| 1940 | 1,949 |
| 1941 | 1,912 |
| 1942 | 1,910 |
| 1943 | 1,905 |
| 1944 | 1,882 |
| 1945 | 1,840 |
Why this ranking
Henry Armstrong ranks #3 with a 98.09 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. In an era with 8 weight divisions, he held titles in featherweight and welterweight at the same time, a strong sign of greatness across weight classes. His standout win in our data is over Barney Ross in 1938, who reached a 2,000 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. Our fight-by-fight records do not add up to his full public win-loss-draw total, so the head-to-head details here are a partial picture. Peak-form Elo is 1,974 (±146), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Compare and explore
Put Henry Armstrong next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Henry Armstrong actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Index 97 · 1943
- Barney Ross#14 · Index 94 · 1938
- Lou Ambers#72 · Index 86 · 1938, 1939
- Sammy Angott#153 · Index 82 · 1943
- Tippy Larkin#223 · Index 80 · 1943
- Beau Jack#261 · Index 79 · 1943
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- Ceferino Garcia#311 · Index 78 · 1938, 1940
- Midget Wolgast#340 · Index 77 · 1935
- Benny Bass#379 · Index 77 · 1937
- Juan Zurita#397 · Index 76 · 1942
- Baby Arizmendi#584 · Index 74 · 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939
- Fritzie Zivic#588 · Index 74 · 1940, 1941, 1942
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Billy Conn#52 · Super Lightweight / Welterweight / Super Welterweight / Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Freddie Steele#55 · Welterweight / Middleweight · 5 overlapping years (1937-1941)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Welterweight / Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Jack 'Kid' Berg#122 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight / Welterweight / Super Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Marcel Cerdan#162 · Welterweight / Super Welterweight / Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Middleweight · 5 overlapping years (1941-1945)
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- Ken Overlin#243 · Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1937-1944)
- Lou Brouillard#253 · Welterweight / Super Welterweight / Middleweight · 4 overlapping years (1937-1940)
- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1937-1945)
- Teddy Yarosz#302 · Middleweight · 6 overlapping years (1937-1942)
- Bob Montgomery#326 · Lightweight · 8 overlapping years (1938-1945)
- Holman Williams#362 · Middleweight · 6 overlapping years (1940-1945)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Henry Armstrong also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 135 bouts we hold full data for from 1937 to 1945, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,974 (peak dated 1938-11-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±146 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.