Would Film Of Greb Confirm His Legendary Status,Or Could It have An Adverse Effect?t

Likely both .. his style was on occasion not described as pretty but no doubt effective as his record against top competition shows ..

 

I very much suspect that he would be diminished in our eyes. He had some hard fights and for some reason a fighter nowadays that doesn't destroy the opposition with contempt is "exposed". Yet, he nearly always found a way to win.

 

In shadowboxing the fighter is visualizing how he would fight an opponent, his moves and punching would be at an imaginary opponent. Shadowboxing gives you an idea of how he would fight. The existing clip of Greb shadowing shows the punches he would throw, his moves, offensively and defensively. If you know what you are looking at the short clips of Greb showing how he threw punches, his short clip of sparring O'Brien, and shadow boxing shows his moving around and punching style including parrying. There is plenty of shadowing boxing clips of various fighters throughout boxing history compare that to the way they fought, and you will see that as they shadowboxed they fought. Since the question is " would film of Greb have an adverse effect I believe it might, cos while his results standout, his awkward jumping bean style would not be pretty. Greb, is #1 in career win's, SRR would be the best stylistically.

 

All one has to do evaluate Harry Greb's record with a fine-tooth comb. He has one of the best records in boxing history, possibly the best with all things considered. As a result, Greb was one of the best fighters in boxing history with a terrific case of being the best. The probability that he had an unorthodox or awkward style is immaterial.

- Chuck Johnston

 

Since a lot of his fights were newspaper decisions I would say it could have an adverse effect because Greb is regarded as a true legend and top 3 p4p fighter of all time. I think it would just disapoint our already outrageously high expectations.

 

If anything it should cause the viewer who is not impressed to reconsider what they know of effective boxing. By virtue of his incomparable record, Greb is the definition of highly effective boxing.

 

Well just look at Monzon,who many regard as the best middleweight ever.
Aesthetically he doesn't look the best but he was mighty effective.

 

It would have an adverse effect from the people who unknowingly judge historic fighters based on the the quality and style of the film. Which I think is most people.

 

Mc you explained it perfectly thank you. Most people wouldnt know most of the fighters Greb fought, but addressing your question many wouldnt like the way he fought, and it would have an adverse effect just on seeing that YT clip.

 

Maybe you didnt understand the question, as I said before about you things have to be explained 3 or 4 times. The question was "would FILM", adversely effect Greb, nothing about record. So again in your rush to make your brilliant statement you didnt fully understand or answer the question. My answer is I believe it would.

 

Films of some of his 155 newspaper decisions would absolutely diminish his mythological status.
I'm positive that some of those decisions would be overturned or AT LEAST make him look like a mortal.
In conjunction with his "step up" losses to Tiger Flowers, Gene Tunney, and Tommy Loughran would
knock him off his Olympic pedestal.

Seeing their hero get punched in the face, throw and miss punches and win a newspaper decision he probably lost would be too much for some of his admirers to stomach; epileptic fits would follow.

 

Get a life, dude. My point was cogent and complimentary to the topic. Seriously, you are adding nothing.