in the early hours after the mickey walker vs harry greb fight...this happened...

You might want to check this with Klompton.

 

:rofl

 

Never happened.

 

Walker, like a lot of fighters, couldnt accept that he had been thoroughly schooled by a guy that a lot of people thought was ripe for the picking so he invented a fantasy where he actually won. In reality Walker was immediately taken to Polyclinic hospital to have his cuts stitched up and then returned to his hotel room where his sparring partners spent the night taking turns applying ice packs to him. I had a contemporary newspaper article that detailed this but lost it and since I couldnt cite the source I left this out of the book but Walker and Greb never fought in the street. Even without the source its laughable to think that Walker would suffer the kind of beating he did in the ring (with rules and a referee) and then turnaround and fight the bigger, fresher Greb in the street (where there are no rules and no referee). As I said in the book, Walker left everything in the ring. He gave that fight everything he had and came out the loser and suffered a good hiding for it as well. He was reduced to tears when the fight was over. He didnt go out and party and certainly didnt fight Greb again. All he was physically capable of doing was laying down and being nursed. Its also telling that Walker was where this story originated and Walker was the only person who was there that ever mentioned and that came nearly a decade later and the story changed every time he told it. When in reality Greb went out that night with friends who all denied (when Walker made it up) that they had even seen Walker. Like I said, never happened.

 

Mickey Walker was full of blarney, but lovable ...

 

I'm researching Tom Sharkey at the moment, at ten years old he hammered 4 older boys, then was ship wrecked 4 times(once for 4 days without water) went Indian hunting in the west indies, gold mining in Australia- i Forgot to mention he ran away from home at nine to jump on a ship-suffered -64 degrees frost bite before he settled down and joined the US navy(true) in 1893 at the age of 19....know what I mean?

 

Interesting read, but as everyone before me (and more credible than me) says: It didn't happen.

Fun stuff, though. A window into the mind of Mickey Walker.

 

For years the yarn that Greb and Mic fought again that night was among the bigger "stories" from boxings by gone days, up there with Willy Pep's no punch 3rd round against Jackie Graves.

 

different days indeed! :good

and thats what a lot of these internet mouth pieces don't realise or wont except. A different breed of people in bygone days - head down and just do whats required.

the early fighters were crude in style generally, but had the mind & mentality of killers, were built for endurance and strength as good as any modern day gym rat. they also didn't waste their day away with TV, Computer Games, the Internet or any other modern distractions. People were always doing something and this 'mental' disipline made for a Hard Breed of people in Hard & Demanding times.

a lot of people today underestimate such demands or worse they disregard them altogether.

and the evidence is often seen in the ring, with tiring & laboring fighters, many wwho don't have the fitness and many more who don't have the mentality, mindset nor disipline!!! :deal

 

Well, I'm glad this has been cleared up. I was under the impression that this post-fight fight really did happen since I've read that it supposedly happened in at least one boxing book.

 

According to klompton's book, this did not happen.

 

The Oracle speaks!

But, as John Ford said "print the legend".