Weird losses

It also showed when he fought George Chaplin the second time. Biggest waste of talent in the last 30 years or so.

I think the moment Greg was hit with those body shots against Berbick, and broke his thumb, both in the second round, it was a wrap for Greg in that fight. Both Witherspoon and Tubbs said Greg did a lot of amateurish things in the ring, which was true. After 1985, Greg was really done as a fighter, as to a lesser extent Dokes was.

 

Six Heads Lewis quit in a fight against Denny Dalton in order to (hopefully) avoid publicly ****ping his pants.

 

I feel badly for Greg, and how his Ali worshiping father shoved his boxing fantasies down his son's throat. I don't know how far Greg could have gone in basketball, but maybe he would have gotten a college scholarship and four year degree out of it at the very least. Ron Lyle already showed that one could go a long way in professional HW boxing even after turning 30 before undertaking punch for pay, and Greg would have been no older than 22 after graduation if an NBA career was beyond him.

We should not be discussing him on boxing sites, only on basketball forums if in any sports related context. Also can't help but think his cigarette addicted father died of lung cancer at 45, and his widow Patricia at 51, while he was gone at 50. Maybe a long life just simply wasn't in the cards for this clan. (Muhammad Ali will turn 74 in another week and a half, while both his parents died at 77. He's outlived a few of his younger opponents, and apparently feels like Dempsey did after Tunney died, as if a part of him left with Frazier's passing.)