Anyone here read "Live Fast, Die Young the Life and Times of Harry Greb"?

No I'm saying it was highly likely and given context of the incident as well as the account of the event it's very probable he was. Sorry but Greb was a racist. A fantastic fighter but a racist none the less and he was in the wrong during that incident. Whatever the black guy did to the white women it didn't warrant an angry mob surrounding him then a professional fighter battering him and mob chasing him into a building. If he had grabbed their asses or touched them/threatened them, etc then it would have said much more than "harassed". Harassing aka being black in a white neighborhood.

 

Mr.DagoWop isn't racist. It's a term that white people gave to us now you're getting on me for using it? That's like calling a black guy racist for calling himself the n word but ending in an "a". I seriously hope you're not a conservative white guy in his 40s. That would be a spot on stereotype.

He wasn't citing a newspaper article so you're lying. He was retelling what happened. I've never seen anyone make that sort of mistake. It's not like a text message or post on a forum where you usually don't reread what you say. It's a published book that I'm sure Compton edited and revised multiple times.

Now unless you have something meaningful to add to the thread then please don't respond. Thank you.

 

I'm just not a fan of blatant and overt bias. The book is dripping with it. Don't get me wrong there's lots of good information but to someone who isn't so bright they might actually believe that George Chip was some great world class fighter.

 

You realize this book was written in the 21st century right?

 

Don't know if you were being sarcastic or not. If you are serious then I say it doesn't weaken your argument really at all. He had close enough to 100 fight. Nobody's perfect, with all these numbers and records flying around nobody should be expected to be 100% accurate all the time.

It's not so much that I don't consider him a legit champ it's that he was a very weak champ. He was definitely not the best in the division and imo the champion should be the best in the division or near it. He had 37 wins and 22 losses by the time he won the championship. Sure he was on a good patch of his career but that was against less than stellar opposition.

I'm not quite sure that those two are equivalent. Tbh I'd consider Mayorga a better fighter than George Chip. Had there been one title then I don't think Mayorga would have been champ. Like you said Mayorga lost to the majority of the world class opponents he faced but he didn't lose to too many non-world class fighters except at the beginning and ends of his career.

I'm sure Compton knows quite a few things about the era than me too but now I'll think it over a few times before taking his word as the end all be all and I advise others to do the same.

Appreciate your posts.