I've seen footage of Tunneys fights with Dempsey and i wonder is there any tape of his fights with Greb?
Greb-Tunney I was filmed as well a broadcast on Pittsburgh's pioneering radio station KDKA from Madison Square Garden II (which Mickey Walker called, "the old smelly one"). KDKA did record their 1920 broadcast of the General Election returns which announced Warren G. Harding as the next President of the United States for posterity, which survives in pristine form, but they apparently did no such thing for Greb-Tunney I. There are also no reports of the film ever even being viewed in movie theaters so far as has yet been determined. The potential for Greb-Tunney I to be the first major bout to have the radio broadcast synchronized with the film did exist, and would have been historic at the time. This was the year the earliest modern sound films were shot, with Eddie Cantor, Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle performing in experimental clips. If only we had just a few far thinking pioneers in key positions, we'd have an incredible document on our hands. This is what's really weird about Harry's career. His matches were both filmed and broadcast on radio by his hometown station, so he had far more coverage by modern visual and electronic media that most any other fighter of the early and middle 1920s, yet we we've been left with virtually nothing of it, save some promotional footage for Greb-Walker.
Klompton has the full Tunney and Greb career sets and as he watches them cackels to himself 'I'll take these DVDs to the grave, THEY ARE ALL MIIIIIIIINE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA'
Dammit, PP, now if anything happens to him, do you realize how many fight fans will be showing up to pay their respects with picks and shovels, instead of flowers? Now he'll have himself buried with those Greb career DVDs like George Pullman and Abraham Lincoln, in a steel cage covered with two tons of poured concrete.
The Greb-Tunney film is very rare, possibly lost. The most recent alleged viewing of it I know of from a reliable witness is 1944/'45. But I've heard of other Greb fights being viewed in the 60s and 70s. Not sure where the films have ended up.
