Article on Dempsey and Strangler Lewis with uh, oh a mention of the two Harry’s

Firstly, Greb was also the best lightheavy in the world for some time.

Secondly, the fact that he beat the living hell out of Brennan and Miske and Gibbons... and in the first fight, Tunney... and that Carpentier avoided him like the clap.
Yes I don't think anyone is disagreeing with your two points. If the demand for the fight was so great, why didn't Rickard and all his paid media lackeys build it into another million dollar gate. I am sure even Rickard wouldn't past that up even if it meant making his golden child look bad and any good/greedy promoter will see the value in a Greb - Dempsey II fite if Dempsey happened to lose. Rickard, Kearns and Dempsey, I believe were interested in making money. Why they never forced the issue to fight with the two "uncrowned" heavyweight champions, the two Harry's, who could pass up the chance to have not one but two or three million dollar gates. Yes I can see Kearns and Rickard, saying, "nah, let's continue making peanuts instead of making our golden cash cow, suffer. Money talks and everybody listens cos they want some of that loot, and Kearns and Rickard were no shrinking violets when money was involved. So again if there was such a hoop and a holler to make the two Harry's why wasn't it made? Please don't say Dempsey was afraid, cos nobody can prove that, no matter how many articles you can come up with. With Wills, it was the "colorline", but there was no such obstarcles in making the Greb fight, so why????

 

I found two interesting takes on the Dempsey - Greb fight, here they are for what its worth. I expect the nitpicker will look to find some nits to pick.
GREB IS AFTER JACK DEMPSEY
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]), 17 June 1922
By Damon Runyan
HARRY GREB "the Pittsburgh Windmill." light heavyweight
champion of America, desires a limited go at Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world.
George Engel, manager of Greb, so informed the writer yesterday. "Harry will bet his end of the purse that Dempsey cannot stop him in eight or ten rounds," said Engel. However, the match is by no means ridiculous Over a long route, yes. As a sprint, no.
If any fighter Dempsey's size had Just taken decisions over Charley Weinert, Tom Gibbons and Gene Tunney, he would be generally accorded a chance against Jack for the championship. The fact that Greb is comparatively small seems to cause many persons to think Dempsey would have an easy time with him. Yet it must be remembered that Greb's specialty is licking big men, and
that it is the men smaller than himself who have given Dempsey the most trouble.
Fistic World Guffawed.
WHEN little Charley Mitchell was matched against
big John L. Sullivan the fistic world no doubt guffawed.
Yet Mitchell gave Sullivan a thundering battle and carried him to thirty nine rounds for a draw at Chantllly, France.
Old-timers claim that Sullivan one of the greatest fighters
that ever lived. He weighed 196 pounds and was 5 feet 10 1/2 inches tall. Mitchell weighed 165 pounds and was 5 feet 9 inches tall. Here is at least one case where
the old ring adage that a good big man can always beat a good little man was set at naught And Greb has certainly proved three times hand-running that the bigger they are the higher he can climb on them. Greb is an inch shorter than Mitchell and weighs between 162 and 164 pounds. Dempsey is six feet one and a half inches tall
and his best fighting weight is probably a little above 190 pounds.
Dempsey gave away to Willard fully as much difference in size as there is between himself and Greb.
Took Him Twelve Round
STANLEY KETCHEL once attempted to concede Jack Johnson much more in point of size than Greb would be giving to Dempsey, and it took Johnson twelve rounds to cut him down. The lamented middleweight champion, one of the greatest hitters of all time, was five feet
nine and three-quarters inches tall, and never weighed mors than 158 pounds. Johnson weighed 210 pounds, and was six feet and one half inch tall. If Greb could hit like Ketchel he would have a chance against two Dempseys in the ring at the same time. But it is the difference, in strength and hitting ability that Harry ls apt to be at greatest disadvantage with the heavyweight champion, because he has nothing in which to stop Jack from coming on, not even the threat. Tommy Burns sawed off to five feet seven Inches, and weighing 185 pounds, got a hand hold on heavyweight title by out smacking Marvin Hart, five feet eleven and one quarter inches and weighing 190 pounds, but somehow we believe Greb could have done the same thing.
We Worked With Dempsey
GREB has worked with Dempsey in the gymnasium. Perhaps it is on his personal knowledge of the champion's style that Harry bases his belief that he can travel a short route with him. Engel claims that Dempsey a
noted knocker-out of sparring partners, could do nothing with Greb in the gym. George says the Pittsburgher smothered Jack's attack the same as he blanketed
Welnert, Gibbons and Tunney. I don't pretend to believe that Greb would have any chance with
Dempsey in fifteen rounds," said George, "and Harry has no illusions on that point. But an eight or ten-round gallop is a different proposition Jack would never catch Greb In that distance.

QUERIES OF ALL SORTS ABOUT SPORTSBY BILLY EVANS.
The Ogden standard-examiner., April 25, 1922
What chance would Harry Greb have against Jack Dempsey'' Was Greb's defeat of Tommy Gibbons a decisive one?
Of Greb or Gibbons which would make the best showing against Dempsey in your opinion?
R D G

Greb would have an outside chance in a bout with Jack Dempsey. After the Gibbons fight I talked such a match with Greb, and he expressed the belief that he would be able to outpoint Dempsey in 12 to 15 rounds as
decisively as be did Gibbons. "Unless Jack should rock me to sleep before the finish," Is the way Greb put it
Giving away from 25 to 35 pounds, as Greb would be forced to In a match with Dempsey, there would always be the danger of the big fellow putting over the knockout punch. Greb decisively outpointed Gibbons In their New York bout He had 10 of the 15 rounds. Yet pitted against Dempsey. Gibbons might make a better showing than Greb. The style that Dempsey would use differs widely to that of Greb and there would always be the chance for Gibbons to sweep over his dangerous right against the champion.