88 years ago today!!!

It has chapters on Plimpton sparring with Archie Moore, in Stillman's Gym.
Travelling on the Ali bus, "Big Red".
John L fighting Lord Lonsdale,dining with Hemingway .
Norman Mailer,Liston Clay,Ali Quarry,Ali Foreman.
Thumbnail sketches of various authors like Updike,Capote,Williams,etc.
Angelo Dundee,Bundidni Brown etc ,not strictlya boxing book per se ,but well worth reading imo.Published by Andre Deutsch.

 

I wonder if people consider Greb's massacre of tunney to be worse or on par with Dempsey's destruction of willard. When peoplee say thik of the worst beating a man took, most think of Dempsey-willard, perhaps if there was more on the fight with Greb-Tuney people would see it differently because the fight sounds really brutal.

 

Gene Tunney is an overrated ******, probably the most overrated behind Duran

 

Abdullah, so true...One of Greb's victiims once said of Greb;s style, "I feltbthat the ceiling opened up, and a carload of gloves landed on my head ". Such was the style of the " Iron City Express "...Regards b.b.

 

i get a vibe that everybody that has posted in this thread is white, old as **** and homosexual

 

I won't get in the gutter with you Pachilles!!

 

Anybody seen this? footage of the fight exists...or at least it once did. ive never readf the whole article before, quite intereesting.


http://www.harrygreb.com/homepagewithframeset.html


Also this:

http://www.harrygreb.com/sparringvideopage.html

apparently, this guy was friends with jim jacobs and is responsible for those training vids of greb, he makes a good point about SOME footage of greb existing somewhere, anywhere. hopefully it can be found someday. Grebs grandson said that he doubts very much that footage exists, still, its always possible.

 

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I am white ,and coming up for 62, but heterosexual.
Any gay posters are more than welcome, I would presume?
Which actually , may be not the case where you are concerned.
NUMB NUTS.

 

why are you so disrespectful?

 

you never know, atleast we know it once existed, this fight with tunney which leaves a possibility that it may be out there, optimism i guess, hopin it may be out there, like im optimistic that il get to see Dempsey-Miske and Fulton. thats abit different though cuz i knw it exists and whos got it, only thing is WHEN i hopefully see them and not IF i get to see them as is the case with Greb footage. But as the articleightly says, if there footage on John L theres deffinetly footage of Greb. Optimism man, you never know it may show up someday.