Harry Greb vs Heavyweights champions

I think Greb can beat Sharkey, Perhaps Baer, Braddock, L Spinks and a few others.


I cant give Greb much chance againsts the GREATS like Louis or Ali or even Dempsey or Marciano. But than again who knows.

 

I would make Greb a favorite over Braddock and Sharkey among who you have listed. Isn't it amazing that you would have a middleweight champion who would be favored against some of the heavyweight champs?

 

dpw, his name alone evokes greatness, but as you so well posted, we tend to forget Greb was only a MIDDLEWEIGHT. What other fighter in history at 160 lbs. , would we even contemplate him as an opponent against the top heavyweights ? The answer is NONE, because Greb had a UNIQUE style , never seen before, and never seen since ! Yes amazing indeed !

 

I feel Harold Greb loses to each dude you listed there... Greb challenging Jim Braddock would be my choice of match-making if I were handling Greb in a time machine... However, I see the "Cinderella Man" being too elusive and slick for the smaller, more rugged Greb... Braddock decs. Greb....

MR.BILL:hat

 

Does anyone really care what you think, Bill?

 

Dude, you are pissin' up the wrong tree...:bbb

MR.BILL:hat

 

Braddock too elusive for Greb??? LOL thats one of the funniest things Ive ever heard. Someone hasnt watched Braddock get made to look absolutely stupid by Tommy Loughran.

 

WTF? Loughran is also one of the best 175 pounders of his era.... Still, even Tommy has his share of losses.... WTF?
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MR.BILL:hat

 

I like Greb as much as any fabled fighter, and at 160, I rate Greb in my top-5... BUT! I don't think Greb is special when pitted against world class guys who are / were 175 pounds and above.... Tunney of '26 would batter Greb by a wide margin... As would guys like "Loughran and Braddock" would do to Greb in circa--'30 in a time machine....

Note:

Greb croaked in 1926....

MR.BILL

 

atsch

You're aware that Greb beat Loughran and 6 other world champions at Light Heavyweight, correct? His resume at Lt. Heavyweight is among the best of all time, just as it is at Middleweight. The man was even ranked among the top 10 Heavyweights for something like 7 years running, I believe.

Face it, Bill. You just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

 

**** you, dickhead....:twisted: Thomas Loughran was pretty green prior to 1926 for Christ sake..... Greb was primed in the early 1920s, and was still capable in 1925.... By 1926, Greb was going blind cuz of retina problems, etc... Greb kicked-off later in the year on the doc's table undergoing surgery for his eyes and nose....
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So, suck me dry---Homo.......:fire

MR.BILL:hat

 

He'd been half-blind well before 1925. His prime was around 1919, when he still had two working eyes. The fact that he was still "capable" in the early to mid 20's is a testament to his greatness and nothing else. As for Loughran being green prior to '26, I don't know about that. He'd been readily mixing it up with the best available fighters around Middle and Lt. Heavy for the past 3-4 years, and had had fights with the likes of Tunney, Bogash, McTigue, Clark, Delaney, Smith, Wilson, Carpentier and multiple goes at Greb. That doesn't sound like the resume of a green fighter to me.

It's clear you haven't done the basic research necessary to even leave fly-by comments on Greb, and yet you make statements like you're some kind of authority figure. It's laughable.