Maybe Harry Greb?

[Dempsey-Louis]

Check out this clip at 2:17 - is the fighter throwing and missing the right hand haymaker possibly Harry Greb?

[Bundana]

For years fight collectors (such as Jimmy Jacobs and Steve Compton) have been searching high and low for even the tiniest clip of actual fight footage of Greb - but all we have is that training video before the Walker fight, where he can be seen doing some weird shadow boxing.

Though it's impossible to tell from the ultra-short clip, I think it's highly unlikely that Tunney's opponent at 2:17 is Greb. If that was the case, it would be a huge sensation!

[KidDinamita]

99.9999% its not him, since he was shorter then Tunney, his hair is different and even the movement (from the training clips), but somewhere on Youtube there is a highlights video of Tunney that shows a fighter that is very similar to Greb.

Because of quality of the video though its difficult to say.

[The Old LefHook]

I'd recognize him anywhere.

[dan_cov]

Pretty sure that's Georges Carpentier loading up on his signature overhand right.

[dan_cov]

Definitely Carpentier

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[Dempsey-Louis]

Definitely Carpentier

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Yea! Damn! - the punch appears just round the 4 minute mark in the clip you posted. Thanks

[Dempsey-Louis]

How about this clip - at (around) 1.14 -- or is that just Carpentier again, with a drop card mistakenly calling it Greb?

[Bundana]

It looks very much like Dempsey, in that latest clip (at 1:14).


Edit: I was looking at the fighters just before the drop card, where I'm sure the opponent is Dempsey… but now I'm thinking, that you probably meant after the drop card. I can't tell who that is - but Greb was much smaller (about 4") than Tunney, and I think these two look about equal in size. So, again, I doubt very much this can be Greb.

Also, if this is indeed him, I'm sure word would be out, that fight footage of Greb actually exists. It would be a pretty big thing!

[Dempsey-Louis]

It looks very much like Dempsey, in that latest clip (at 1:14).


Edit: I was looking at the fighters just before the drop card, where I'm sure the opponent is Dempsey… but now I'm thinking, that you probably meant after the drop card. I can't tell who that is - but Greb was much smaller (about 4") than Tunney, and I think these two look about equal in size. So, again, I doubt very much this can be Greb.

Also, if this is indeed him, I'm sure word would be out, that fight footage of Greb actually exists. It would be a pretty big thing!

You would think - no doubt the up-loaders sometimes have no idea what they are looking at - there was that one Louis-Sharkey fight where the up-loader thought Louis was Dempsey. - You are correct the fight right before the drop card is definitively Dempsey, but the fighter after the drop card looks a little too wild to be Dempsey; more likely Carpentier. I need to look at the Tunney-Carpentier fight again closely and see if I can find that moment.