Middleweight Tournament Round 2: Tiger vs Greb

I think that from the third fight on, that might be true. I also think that Greb was fighting a lot cleaner though, and Tunney was perhaps able to take advantage of the additional time and space Greb provided. It seems that Tunney mixed and matched as appropriate after this, but he was throwing a lot of body shots. It's hard for me to invisage Tunney leading to Greb's body and getting away with it. Certainly, Greb is described in these fights (perhaps the last one aside) as "the aggressor", "swarming". I think the difference that you have put your finger on is that Tunney was very happy to meet Greb face to face and slug it out when Greb was "on". But I don't think that Tunney abandoned his countering strategy entirely.

I think making weight hurt him in the first fight. After all, he had two pounds to take off the day before, and ended up taking off four by "drying out". The second fight, I think he got the weight thing right.

Also, Greb looked great against Gans in between the Tiger fights, as you'll know, Gans was a good fighter. Greb himself opined that he wouldn't have lost to Tiger had he been in that sort of shape for the first title fight with Flowers, and he seems to have won that fight in traditional Greb style (strong finish, high work-rate, loads of punches).

There was also less satisfaction at the decision for the second title fight.

Regardless, this was Greb. The wins are still very impressive. It was a past-prime Greb that out classed and outfought Mickey Walker after all!