On resume and legacy, despite there being no fight footage Harry Greb surely has to be right up there? His resume is about as good as any in history on paper. Willie Pep on skills, accomplishments and his record too. Those two stand out and then you've got Benny Leonard. You can't just say Ottke is better than those guys because there's more footage.
I guess you've got to measure relative to their era's and those three are on basically every single top 10 all-time list I think you'll see from Boxing historians. Gene Tunney, Tommy Loughran, Mickey Walker, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, Jimmy McLarnin etc; will be considered greater than Calzaghe or Marciano too. There's a lot of folks on here that will dismiss them because they haven't bothered to learn their era and assume that other era's were trash but rating relative to their era those are all-time greats.
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