the greatest vs the mythic

sugar ray robinson UD.

sugar ray robinson UD.

that'd be the logical conclusion considering we got no footage of greb,but i've read incredible shit about greb.

that'd be the logical conclusion considering we got no footage of greb,but i've read incredible shit about greb.

so sad there isn't any footage of him fighting, if they got the fight of fitzsimmons-vs corbett in ****ing 1897 then how on earth dont they have harrt grebb's? :nonono:

so sad there isn't any footage of him fighting, if they got the fight of fitzsimmons-vs corbett in ****ing 1897 then how on earth dont they have harrt grebb's? :nonono:

that's what i don't understand,i'm telling you somebody has to be holding out.
check this shit out from his website.

http://www.harrygreb.com/homepagewithframeset.html
------"It is not generally known however, that Greb and Dempsey did actually meet in the ring. It was at Jack's Atlantic City training camp. They were to box four rounds with sixteen ounce training gloves. Jack Kearns refereed. Harry came snorting out of his corner raising hell with the heaveyweight champion's middle. Dempsey looked confused, he hesitated about throwing punches at first. But he became desperate along about the second round and started putting ginger behind his left hooks. But Greb raced around so fast and poked so many jabs into Jack's face that the great Mauler couldn't land one solid wallop during the entire exhibition. The next day, in bold black type the size off an egg, some papers carried the headline "GREB MAKES DEMPSEY LOOK LIKE A KITTEN."

As I posted in the Robbinson vs Greb thread in the history section, I'll go with Robinson, but it will be by far his hardest win. IF he wins, I think it will be razor close. I really think if they fought several times, each would win his share. Greb really was a great and very under-rated fighter. And if anyone under 175 was going to be Ray Robinson, I would bet it would be Greb. He had a miserable style of boxing for another fighter to have to contend with.

BTW Antonim, that story you posted about Greb & Dempsey is also written about extensively in that book on Gene tunney.

that's what i don't understand,i'm telling you somebody has to be holding out.
check this shit out from his website.

http://www.harrygreb.com/homepagewithframeset.html
------"It is not generally known however, that Greb and Dempsey did actually meet in the ring. It was at Jack's Atlantic City training camp. They were to box four rounds with sixteen ounce training gloves. Jack Kearns refereed. Harry came snorting out of his corner raising hell with the heaveyweight champion's middle. Dempsey looked confused, he hesitated about throwing punches at first. But he became desperate along about the second round and started putting ginger behind his left hooks. But Greb raced around so fast and poked so many jabs into Jack's face that the great Mauler couldn't land one solid wallop during the entire exhibition. The next day, in bold black type the size off an egg, some papers carried the headline "GREB MAKES DEMPSEY LOOK LIKE A KITTEN."i like your signature antonim.

dempsey & grebb :fing02:

i like your signature antonim.

dempsey & grebb :fing02:

they look like ol' timey gangsters.:D

I imagine from what i have read that the fighter nowdays that come closest to Greb stylistically would be Calzaghe and I think because of the styles Robinson wis.

http://www.harrygreb.com/sparringvideopage.html i found these clips of him he looks riduculous when he shadow boxes

I imagine from what i have read that the fighter nowdays that come closest to Greb stylistically would be Calzaghe and I think because of the styles Robinson wis.

http://www.harrygreb.com/sparringvideopage.html i found these clips of him he looks riduculous when he shadow boxes

those are all timey times...........if i hear about some guy that just throws a ton of punches with incredible speed,that he fought mickey walker gene tunney,and was rumored to have whipped dempsey's ass,shit i don't care what he looks like shadowboxing.