MW from the divisions history with the best equipment to take out Greb?

Lets first look at the tools they will need.

The guys who did best against Greb were those who went after him with a sustained body attack and di not give him room to set up his whirlwind attack. Tommy Loughran nwrote the blueprint.

Anybody who tried to outbox him from range was toast.

If you have to choose between Carlos Monzon and Marvin Hagler then you definitely want Hagler.

 

Not bad choices. Like with Tiger Flowers Greb would not have the power to take advantage of RJJs most critical weakness eg his chin.

 

Tiger Flowers had no problem outboxing Greb from long range, without getting toasted. Let's not make Greb some invincible monster. Plenty of middleweights in history have a chance to beat him.

 

Jones had a better defense than any of multiple fighters who made Greb miss most of his punches, and he was a FAR better counter-puncher than anyone Greb faced in his career.

 

Greb was not better than James Toney or Bernard Hopkins skillwise, very far from it. He wasn't tougher, he didn't hit harder. In all, as a boxer Greb was inferior to both.

 

Beating Greb would not be harder for Jones than beating Hopkins. Jones was eating pressure fighters for breakfast in all of his fights except Glen Johnson, having far more trouble with counter-punchers, as is the case with most counter-type boxers-punchers.

 

I disagree.

While his style was verry diferent he was just as skilled in his own way and in terms of natural talent he vastly surpases both. Perhaps even surpases Jones.

 

The closest analogy to Jones among Greb's opponents would probably be Tommy Loughran. Young inexperienced Loughran arguably beat Greb the first time (I have a semi-local round by round report that gives Loughran 4 rounds, Greb 2, with 2 even) or, if he lost, only by very narrow margin (Philadelphia Inquirer sports editor) due to the difference in experience, and he was coming up strong, fighting the last round better than the first, having figured Greb's style by that point. He showed excellent defense and gave Greb a lot of troubles in the other bouts too, deserving the win in several of them, still before he reached his peak. Yet Loughran wasn't as good a counter-puncher and didn't have Jones' punching power and accuracy.

 

Yes but Greb did better as the series progresed and they both gained in experience.

Also I am not too sure about the Loughran Jones analogy.