Harry Greb top 40 Middleweight?

What is the big hang up with black fighters True Writer? You think white fighters couldnt fight? At that time there were more quality white fighters than black fighters for the simple fact that black fighters made less, had a harder time getting fights, and couldnt go as far. Thus fewer of them entered the game, there were fewer blacks than whites to begin with (thats why they were a minority) and therefore fewer top flight black fighters. You can count the # of top blacks that Greb COULD have fought on one hand and of those he fought as many as anyone else when he didnt have to at all. He could have easily drawn the color line and NEVER faced flowers. Period. As for his resume it stands and the fact that you cant recognize that shows you are either ignorant of those times and the men Greb faced or have an agenda. Im guessing its more than a little of both.

 

Very accurate rebuttal,I couldnt be arsed to respond to this,he clearly picks his info out of the air ,good job!

 

I think some here may be underrating Greb who beat Tunny and Loughran who are in my top 15 p4p and Walker who is top 20.

Still, without dirty tactics, how good was he?

 

Probably pretty good. No one likes to face strong, mauling fighters who are tough to hit...especially those fighters who tend to throw a high volume of punches throughout the fights.

 

So you actually think you can tell from 29 seconds of him throwing fake slow-motion punches to show off his muscles for a camera, 43 seconds of him casually play-sparring, and 23 seconds of him flexing his mucles how he would do in an actual professional fight?

 

Beating them can be debated, but destroying them is just shyte.

 

But we do have footage of many of his key oponents and they clearly are good.

So what if he dosnt look good shadow boxing?

We can watch fighters he beat and see exactly how good they were.

 

Gene Tunney would have beaten all of these fighters you mentioned :good

 

Gene Tunney-better than any of them

Tommy Loughran-better than any of them

Mickey Walker-better than any of them

Tommy Gibbons-better than any of them

And yes all these guys were filmed.

Billy Miske-better than any of them

Kid Norfolk-better than any of them

 

The only thing missing from the Harry Greb/Thomas Hearns youtube video is Benny Hill music whenever the clips of Greb appear.