Harry Greb has a better Heavyweight resume than Wilder (Not H2H)

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  1. SwarmingSlugger

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    What would the motive be?
     
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    *Chef's Kiss*
     
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    Are they just banning ANYBODY now? The hell's going on?
     
  4. HistoryZero26

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    Depends if you count feats over guys who fought at HW or fights at HW.

    If its the former then sure if its the latter Greb at HW never fought for a belt and had a padded win streak with a much lower SOS than the rest of his resume. Grebs best win specifically at HW is Bill Brennan who was sort of the Derek Chisora of the period. Weinart might have been at HW. Were these other fights there?

    Also Grebs KO rate at HW specifically might have been single digits the exact opposite of Wilder.
     
  5. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The latter, if you look at the mentioned opponent's weights, they were all well above 175. If it was the former, then I would have also mentioned the Tunney, Loughran, Walker and Rosenbloom wins, since they all had moderate success at HW. It wouldn't even be worthy of discussion then.

    Take a look at the resume of someone like Weinert. He is an obscure Heavyweight that very few know about, while Stiverne is still in Boxing conscience since he is a recent fighter. Most people would probably rank the latter higher due to recency bias and not even knowing who Weinert is. Yet Weinert has 2 wins over a young upcoming Jack Sharkey (a future lineal champion, somebody Wilder, much less Stiverne, never beat), as well as wins over Firpo, Willie Meehan, and a slightly past it Gunboat Smith. Greb beat him in between some of those wins. Stiverne only has a win over an aging and inactive Arreola, and lost all his fights aside from one against a nobody after that. Greb's win is better.

    I genuinely couldn't care less about Wilder having an alphabet belt and 10 defences over mostly unranked opposition. There are dozens of Heavyweights who never got a belt that thrash him in terms of resume and must belong higher than him in any sensible list. I firmly believe Greb is one of them.
     
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  6. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Norfolk weighed 178 compared to Greb's 161. So for all intents and purposes, it was a Light Heavyweight fight that was just slightly above the 175 limit, like several other cases. So I count it as a LHW scalp for Greb. But if you disagree and firmly believe he should belong in Greb's HW resume, then that makes my argument even stronger.

    I think the ones who belittle Miske's HW resume just do it to bring down Dempsey, kinda like they do Marciano, mentioning Moore's age despite Moore's great run prior to Marciano etc. His resume at HW is better than Luis Ortiz's. No culty thing going on here.
     
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  8. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Wilder's are over Ortiz x2, Stiverne x2, Helenius, Arreola and Breazeale. All 7 were ranked at one point in their life, but only 3 (Ortiz x2 and Stiverne 1) of those wins came against them when they were ranked at the time of the fight. The other 4 had dropped off.

    Greb on the other hand beat Rojas, Renault x2, Weinert, all of whom were ranked by the first ring magazine ratings in 1924. After that he's got the 4 wins over Brennan, as well as the 2 wins over Meehan, who were current contenders at the time (prior to the first official rankings), and an old Gunboat Smith who was definitely not a contender at that point, but was actually once thought to be the divisional #1 and the white hope to beat Jack Johnson (even beating an unprepared Langford) before Langford knocked him out in 3 in the rematch when he was in shape.
     
  9. JohnThomas1

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    Sounds bang on to me mate. So he's got three.
     
  10. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

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    Yup, Greb's got 10. And the 2 over the former divisional #1 Gunboat smith.

    So Greb's 10 current out of 12 total > Wilder's 3 current out of 7 total.

    And as I argued in the op, Greb's are also higher quality.
     
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  11. JohnThomas1

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    Fair call, resume wise.
     
  12. GlaukosTheHammer

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    I just responded to a man with a similar claim ... You do not get to place men in division based on your thoughts. That is revisionism. If you guys want to revise history, cool, I am down to do that too, but if you're talking to me about who is what, dude they had a career. They sold fights. This isn't hard.

    Secondly, stating Miske is about as much a HW as Norfolk is not focusing on Miske vs Greb, it's focusing on Miske's career in relation to Norfolk's career. The weights when fighting Greb are anecdotal at best but don't detract or add to my point.





    I know youse lot are using boxrec because you report their mistakes at me. If you want real weights check sources. Boxrec will give you a source for 170 then you read the source to find the actual report says between 150-165. Just did that with fitzs like a week ago. Boxrec is ****.

    You're adding to Boxrec's shitty weight keeping this idea you get to place men in divisions based on reports of their actual weight like as if their billing didn't happen.


    Daniel Mendoza was 150, and HW champion. He's a HW because he fought as a HW. His actual weight does not matter. Get me? Billy Miske being a ****ing LHW is not meant to be the point of contention. It's meant to be matter of fact. You guys took that as the insult when I was clearly saying Norfolk is a better win than Miske ever was. At HW included. If we are using men who did not exclusively fight at HW and are backing that with but they did well against HWs then Norfolk is above Miske and also why TF ain't Tunney here?
     
  13. GlaukosTheHammer

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    That's for youse to tell me I guess. If I even have a guess all that happens is I get reported and a bunch of people crying at me.


    Why does this forum pick out random mid-tier HWs to pretend like they did much more than they actually accomplished? I have no idea. None at all and any allusion that I might have some idea is surely an accident. Likewise, I have no idea how a man gets a title fight after losing to another man who is never given the same opportunity to move forward in their career.
     
  14. GlaukosTheHammer

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    That's called ducking bro. You know what I said to you. You avoided addressing it at all and just restated your fallacy. Revisionism at your convivence ... cool, I'ma call this a spanking.


    Yo, Boriken still love you homie, but you wrong and you damn well know it. Git yer ass of Boxrec, stop circlejerking writers who convince you of ideals that fly against the history logged, learn something. All the sources you ever needed are online and if you're unwilling to read newspaper from the turn of the century then stfu and let those who will speak to the subject.
     
  15. Greg Price99

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    Relative to the eras in which they competed, which is the basis for my rankings, Greb by a good distance.