they both lose to ezzard charles.
Charles was a light-heavy/heavy. Greb and Hagler were middleweights. (Yes he started his career at middleweight but never really made a mark there. WWII took him away from the ring.)
Hagler would have destroyed a one eye fighter :poke:
Greb was a one-eyed fighter for the last two years of his career. He died at 32 or so while getting surgery. Tiger Flowers, another great middleweight, also died under surgery. Anesthesiology back then was not as good as it is today (to say the least).
No 1 one here can even post any footage of Greb fighting so how can we judge his style at all?
It would be a great fight. Both are ATGs.
We know Greb beat Tunney and there are professional boxing people who saw Greb, Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, SRR and considered Greb among the best.
Whatever the case I can't see either one of them dominating the other in a series.
Now there is an answer.
Ive read many many stories on grebs ability
Parry shots .
Reading and seeing him in action are 2 different things,no way can you form an opinion of who could win this fight when we have never seen Greb fight at all
Greb was good in his day but I think Hagler would beat him either on points or by KO. I don't think there is any film of Greb fighting as a pro in his prime so everything about how good he was is based on his record and stories about him. I would rate the prime Hagler as one of if not the best middleweight of all time. For some reason he had a harder time beating Duran than I would have thought. But sometimes a great fighter runs into a guy who gives them more trouble than you would think just like Ali had more trouble with Norton than he did with Foreman. I don't think Greb ever fought a middleweight with Hagler's combination of speed, skill, power, stamina and an iron jaw.