Is This Additional Greb Footage?

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  1. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    I never saw these six seconds before … thoughts?

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    If that is him boy is he amazin.
     
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    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    It looks to me like just the same footage of him sparring with O'Brien.

    Edit: Actually, it is different.
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    They are wearing different gloves than in the previous. Yes.
     
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    Greb the best there ever was
     
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    Pd for pd. 1 fight only. 15 rds. Benny Leonard beats him. Would bet the farm.
     
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    Maybe, but greb was unbeatable in a series, it appears
     
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    surfinghb Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Soldier Bartfield turned the trick giving up 14 pounds at that .. Beat a prime Greb
     
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    So was Benny. And thought more of. There are reasons Benny was considered pd fr pd greatest until Robinson and Greb was never mentioned. Only films would show why. So Harry benefits from the lack thereof.
     
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    Yes
     
  11. nikrj

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    This is a great find, dude!
    Hopefully other discoveries are made in the future!
     
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  12. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    I cant say I found it .. just saw what someone else came across .. still , it appears to be new relative to the previous Greg training/O'Brien footage ..
     
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    Would be nice to get some insight from @klompton2 ... tho not sure he still frequents this board.
     
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    Looks gash.
     
  15. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    There was a great thread on here years ago exploring how Greb’s reputation/estimation skyrocketed long after he fought his last fight. He was regarded highly in his day but not as some otherworldly GOAT force. Then he, gradually or rather suddenly (depending on your point of view of what constitutes suddenly over a period of decades), began to rise toward the very top.

    A certain Greb author/fanboi insists that the entire world press conspired against him to make it like he wasn’t good because he didn’t pay them off (which supposes, among other things, that every single highly-regarded fighter from past eras took a large percentage of his purses and distributed that money across the newspapermen who covered fights). There may be a grain of truth to that but there’s got to be more.
     
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