Harry Greb v today's MW's - LHW's

I wouldn't be surprised if Abraham was half dead at the end of a Greb fight. That kind of work rate against Greb's frantic pace? Greb could hit him several hundred times if he was sleepwalking.

 

Chin, workrate, number of fighters, resume...

Greb's an enigma. I mean, I can imagine what a lot of fighters were probably like, you can somewhat reconstruct them from a number of sources.

With Greb, I have not a friggin' clue, which makes the complete lack of footage even more frustrating.

 

This is one of the most frustrating aspects when trying to put Greb in a mythical matchup against modern fighters. We don't know what the man looked like in the ring because there isn't any footage of him actually fighting. I'm sure he was a hell of a fighter but what did he look like? It's like trying to picture how a TRex hunted down it's prey. We can speculate based on fossil evidence but the fact is we'll never know. As difficult as it is for me to do, I have to leave Greb out of my mythical matchup musings until some actual footage of him turns up someday.

 

We have no footage of greb making it horribly speculative, I fancy the likes of Calzaghe, Hopkins, Dawson to beat him. Taylor probably has the technique, size, speed and athleticism to beat him but taylor can fight too 1 paced which greb may handle. Pavlik he probably figures out but Pavlik is very underrated if he can get his rythm going by getting his shots off hes a beast

 

I kind of picture him as being a mixture of Pernell Whitaker, Roy Jones Jr. and Joe Calzaghe. That's just how I like to imagine him, though. I'm probably pretty far off.

 

i think greb has the athleticism to beat each and all.

 

True, but the problem with Greb and Tunney is not just that Greb was bigger than him, but he was also faster and a better technician (from what i can work out). Tunney defeats all of todays middles and light heavys and (assuming his chin holds up to superheavy punch) most if not all of the heavys. Greb was able to beat plenty of bigger fighters.

 

Greb is uniquely qualified by resume alone to be forcasted to beat each and all today. I give only Calzaghe a chance to hold his own and not much chance at that.

You want a challenge, pit him against Monzon.

 

We know who Greb beat and we have footage of them, so he's not the complete mystery some of you are making him out to be. If he beat Gene Tunney to a pulp then he had to be some amazing boxer. Greb beat Walker and we have footage of Walker. I'm impressed by Walker. Aren't you? Is there footage of Flowers?

It's just not possible that we could watch footage of somebody with Greb's accomplishments and see something in there that fundamentally changed the character of the record. We know what Greb did. The man is legend, a real beast in the ring. Newspapers of that day talk about a cyclone who just kept coming, growing stronger with every round. Like Henry Armstrong, Greb imposed his will on his opponent.

I think he shines among today's middleweight and light heavyweights. I think he re-energizes boxing, too; his effective reckless abandon would be the talk of the sport.

I'd love to see footage of him boxing, but I don't believe we have to, to recognize that Greb was a special fighter.

 

No vootage of the great man greb so i dont know who you can make comparisons! end of story

 

I agree 100%

You can not compare fighters where no footage exists of one of them, the only footage of Greb is terrible, he looks weak, puney, and pretty inept to put it bluntly. Looking at the footage of him makes me think his whole era is poor at best, this may or may not be true but the impression his videos create.