If Greb footage is found and it is mediocre how would it change your view of his opposition??

Stolen thoughts, but it would force me to consider how little I must know. Look at his record, he's in the right I couldn't possibly be.

 

We have tons of footage of his opponents. Cant we judge them accurately now?

 

We have footage of the guys he fought and some of them look good even by modern standards. For instance Tunney looks like a modern boxer plying his trade from behind a great jab. If Greb looked awful and it was one film I'd assume that maybe he'd had an off day. If he looked shyte across 3-4 films then I'd have a puzzler on my hands.

 

This kind of question is only asked by disgruntled Tyson fans, who don't want to admit that Greb dominates their hero and knocks him silly.*


* Assuming Greb existed.

 

Finding footage of Greb would be horrible. The peanut gallery would be shrieking that he "failed the eye test" and saying stupid stuff about how he would lose to K-9 and Johnny B.
Never mind that, in general, the average boxing fan has little to no understanding of what he is seeing. Never mind that what matters is the effectiveness of what you do, not that it conforms to what someone thinks it should look like. Especially when that someone couldn't do it themselves, or doesn't understand what is being done.
If the video had commentary by Howard Cossell saying "Greb is the greatest" every few seconds then, over time, it would become accepted fact, no matter what the video showed.
Something I don't understand...when people say that a fighter looks like a modern fighter. Is that meant to be a positive thing? In my opinion the boxers of today, for the most part, are not impressive at all. The decline started in the early 90s and the decline built momentum and became a free fall.

 

No, his competition just looks that good on film.

Greb probably won't pass the eye test to most casuals, since they don't know anything about his style. Chances are he won't look very technical if film is found due to his insanely weird style (which the casuals will call outdated, since they've never seen footage of Greb's opposition)

I've literally seen people call Willie Pep primitive. No, I'm not kidding. You just can't please everyone

 

A likely story!

Next you'll be telling me that you're not working with the Lewisites, who refuse to admit that the Once And Future Greb would beat Lennox. Jealous *******s.

 

I think it's because that how they exercised with pulleys.

I have nothing to back this up except that it's identical to how it looks on film when they're using pulleys.

 

Casual fans generally can’t comprehend what they are watching. They generally go with what their told and stuck to their narratives and biases. So, I don’t think it would change much. Casual fans will ridicule him, those who understand context will continue to marvel over his resume and understand there’s a lot of footage of his victims.

 

If they had fought c.100 years ago and the only footage we had of Calzaghe and Kessler were their respective stoppages of Peter Manfredo and Allan Green, people would say Calzaghe was too primitive to be successful in the modern era, whilst Kessler passes the eye test.

We shouldn't conflate aesthetically pleasing styles with effectiveness.

Amazing hand speed, absurd stamina/work rate, high ring IQ and excellent footwork can take a fighter far, even when allied with wild or sloppy punching technique.