Mike O'Dowd underrated middleweight?

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Isn't there about 45 min of O'Dowd and Gibbons out there somewhere? BTW thanks for posting.

 

I cringe reading O'Dowd beat Harry Greb, its bull****!

 

Just for ridding the sport of that hack McCoy, O'Dowd should be in the HOF.

But yeah, I've always thought he was underrated. Wins over Greb and Mike Gibbons certainly attest to that. Jack Britton seemed to have his number though.

 

u guys multiple count the same A-P wire service accounts and add em up! Count em once please!

This drives me loco!



Champion O'Dowd insisted Harry make a weight he couldn't fight at for **** 158.

Harry wound up at 155 after spending the night in a turkish bath.

Despite this scenario O'Dowds hometown paps were split on who won this battle and I have them all.

I should add Harry was fighting in the 170 range in the time leading up to this encounter.

Its like ranking Mike Rossman over Victor Galendez

 

Slakka, you couldnt send me afew of them articles could you?

 

Slakka is right, for the most part. I dont agree that making 158 was a huge handicap for Greb. his best weight was about five pounds heavier but he could make 158 and still be better than the vastly underrated O'Dowd. That being said he did indeed over shoot the weight by spending all night in a turkish bath. He weighed in at 155 1/2 and of the six twin cities papers in operation at the time they were split down the middle (I have them all too). The great George Barton, dean of twin cities newspapermen, ex fighter, mentor of Mike Gibbons, and one of the greatest referees ever stated that he thought Greb won. Keep in mind that these were hometown papers, a hometown crowd, a hometown venue, and hometown officiating. Would the result have been more unanimous somewhere else. Maybe. But while he was still champion O'Dowd refused to fight Greb in Pittsburgh or anywhere other than the twin cities for anything less than a kings ransom.

Back to the original question: O'Dowd is incredibly underrated a wonderful little bulldog of a fighter who could also box when he needed to. His problem was he was a bit small for a middleweight and too big for a welterweight so he was typically fighting guys that were larger than him. Hes one of my favorite fighters.