Harry Greb...any comparisons stylewise?

Kev Overlin apparently. Watching the brief sparring footage makes me think of Benny Lynch though.

 

Hamed and Pryor is a good parallel, but it doesn't account for the speedy, bouncy legs or the leaping aspect of his attack. For legs, watch Duran-Lou Bizzarro. Lou has the type of bouncy footwork that hundreds of newspaper accounts ascribe to Greb.

My own pastiche of Greb's style:

Armstrong pressure
Pryor busy-ness and punching angles
Bizzarro legs
Ray Leonard speed
Hamed/Gypsy Joe Harris awkwardness and unpredictability.

He's best described as an elusive pressure fighter, which seems to be a contradiction in terms. But Greb's whole style was a contradiction in terms.

 

pacquiao/Sweet Pea/Bruce Lee

 

Reading all those next day reports in Klompton's book certainly reminded me of this... with even faster feet.

 

He was a puncher. And he was very dirty. He windmilled his arms, like BAER or Foreman.

 

Calzage may be but 3ple G looks a lot like Greb from pictures and size although the speaking and style would throw you off but I heard Ken Ovelin fought a lot like him and Calzage

 

WTF? What a bizarre post.

 

I think he would have been like a bigger Duran/Hank Armstrong hybrid.

 

Um, well the dirty part seems right. In his own words he didn't punch as hard as he could have as he would have had to set and it would have made him more open, i.e. his low ko rate. Baer did backhand but neither he or Foreman are thought of as windmillers.