If you had to Guess, Whos style would be closest to Harry Grebs?

Vito Antuofermo at 100% every round.

Or Aaron Pryor?


Anyone other fighters come to mind? Granted, we have to piece together his style by reading newspaper accounts. But we have enough info to make an educated guess.

I think personally his style sounds like Vito's , with more stamina.

 

Perhaps Ray Mancini with more power and better defense?

 

From what I've read this sounds pretty near.

 

Jack kid berg for his punch output

 

Joe Calzhage, a big middleweight swarmer with speed and movement that throws slashing punches in bunches.

 

Good pick.

 

Henry Armstrong?

 

This

 

Yes I think Calzaghe is a good pick as berg was compared to greb by some Americans during his time while fighting over there as he threw a huge number of punches

 

The great but unappreciated middleweight Ken Overlin who once beat Ezzard Charles, amongst many others had a style of frenetic punching and bouncing around the ring, that he was nicknamed " the poor man's Harry Greb".
Overlin responded to this compliment by saying "I am convinced that Harry Greb, would have beaten me and my top challenger on the same night with no time between fights". Unquote ! Heady words from a great rugged MW indeed.. Greb was unique in style because unlike another great swarmer Henry Armstrong also of unlimited stamina, Greb was bouncing around with what was described as rubber like legs in an out. Impossible to time with a solid blow...The best description of him I read was "like a patient who broke out of his straight jacket from an asylum "...
P.S. On youtube you can see Ken Overlin against The Aussie Fred Heneberry
to get a slight idea of what Harry Greb looked like. Truly one of a kind...

 

Good one, Burt.

 

Awesome post and thanks!

 

Hard to say, high workrate, speed, workrate and very hard to hit. From the tiny amount of footage we can guess he led with the jab, 1-2s and flurries. He'd use allot of footwork but be solid inside and out.

The comparison thrown around is Calzaghe, which has some merit but he's probably more technically sound I think but who knows? He was certainly rougher on the inside. Maybe a sub 30yo Bernard Hopkins would be comparable although Hopkins is very foundamentally sound, where as Greb wasn't considered so. Either way he was a stamina machine like both men in their primes who wouldn't worry about throwing 100 punches round on round.

lol just forget about boxing, ok?

 

Done a bit of digging and found this it's a quote from a writer of the time called Alfred Dayton

" He varies from the average run of foreign fighters in as much as he possesses an intimate knowledge of in-fighting. In close , his arms work like pistons and he is such a busy individual that he has been termed the English Harry Greb, and in Some instances, the English Ace Hudkins . But both these cognomens are slightly in error . Berg boasts much more skill along with his whirlwind tactics than either


I'd also like to add as I've read it was often used by sportswriters of the late twenties that " Greb spelt backwards is Berg

 

Non-Smokin' burt really nails it again, didn't he? An aside, Greb was FAR more than a "skilled Mancini".