There were atempts to make this fight. Would the Pitsburgh Windmill have been a two division champion?
Carpentier did not want to fight Greb - a well documented fact. Now this is probably because he was 1) Very Dirty & 2) Very good. Carpentier was a fine boxer, a real cutie who has yet to be properly chronicled in the eyes of today’s fans, but Greb was just the right type of fighter to get to Georges' fencer-like boxing and clean nature, and batter him to defeat over 15 rounds.
Carpentier knew better than to fight Greb. It would have been a one sided loss. Carpentier's entire style depended on him landing his right hand. You cant bank on landing one punch against Greb and expect to win.
That was a rough fight, but Greb's 'roughness' was part of his A-game - Carpentier liked to box and probe from a distance and would of found it hard to contend with Greb's hectic, rule altering assaults.
Carpentier would have lost, brutally. Probably by TKO on cuts or just because he was getting all hell beaten out of him. I think Carpentier was an ATG light heavy, but Greb would have been just the type of fighter to rough him up.
I'd pick Greb also especially because of their styles but Carp is very underatted, I for one believed he edged his fight with a prime Jeannette as well as starching Wells and Beckett. Add in the win over an admittedly faded Levinsky and you have a solid resumee. Still Greb too fast, tough, dirty (Carp himself was no angel) and unotherdox fot the Frenchman.
Jeannette, Wells, Backett, and fixed fight against an old fat Levinsky make a great resume? interesting...
Considering he lost to Jeannette, his fight with Levinsky was allegedly fixed and Wells and Beckett were little better than club fighters Id say solid is even a stretch.
Allegedly means what? Reading the reports from ringside Carp put up a good show against Jeannette and Allegedly was robbed...Wells defeated the likes of Kennedy and Porky Flynn which probably means that there were only about 15-20 fighters of that period who wern't club fighters.
What about Carpintiers win over Gunboat Smith for the white heavyweight title? The win might have been on a foul but from what the contemporary sources say smith was getting decidedly the worst of it and might even have fouled out. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E2DE1430E733A25754C1A9619C946596D6CF
