Entries tagged with "Harry+Greb":
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The matching radio call with the Long Count film is no revelation, but it offers a fresh perspective—to both see, and hear, the highlight of this classic fight…
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“No-one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” So they say. And those people are right…
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Rob Brant is more physical than Murata and has fought the better opponents. He is more vocal and exudes confidence...
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The sudden public emergence of Brooks as a heavyweight colossus was undoubtedly the handiwork of his manager, Mickey Curran, nicknamed “Ballyhoo”…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the standout boxers from a state which includes Stanley Ketchel, Kid Lavigne, Ad Wolgast and James Toney…
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Several generations of Milwaukee youngsters learned to box from him, among them Spencer Tracy, later one of the greatest actors in movie history...
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“I would like to be remembered as a game-changer. Someone who was not afraid to do what it takes to make change that is needed…”
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Despite The Ring ranking him seventh in 1929, third in 1930, and sixth in 1931, Smith never got a shot at middleweight champion Mickey Walker…
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Just three years into his career, Gibbons caught the sometimes highly critical eye of a very significant spectator, Gentleman Jim Corbett…
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Frazier is the guy who plays havoc with the minds of traditionalists and revisionists alike whenever they shuffle their all-time rankings…
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Lew ran up a remarkable record and was virtually unbeatable for a stretch of five or six years and well over one hundred matches...
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We shake our heads at such dreadful tragedies, gripped by a naïve belief that such men are somehow ageless and invincible and will outlive us all…
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Tunney thought Dempsey was getting a bit long in the tooth. Gene smelled blood in the water. But first he had to take care of Risko…
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One thing that is certain is, no matter the era or the competition, the object of the game is to be the best...
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“It was a fight, pure and simple,” according to the New York Tribune, “one of the most brutal and ghastly ever seen in the city...”
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Early life is often harsh and it’s this yearning to escape these harsh realities that instills a dogged determination to make it…
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Greb Lite – November 10th, 2014
Harry Greb reincarnate he wasn't, nor even a shirttail relative of the legendary middleweight champion...
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“The greatest thing about boxing might not be the characters, fights or inspirational stories, but the promise that more are on the way…”
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Quite simply, Gene Tunney just didn't fit most people’s perception of a fighting man, and for the usual trite and unfair reasons…
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There comes a time on any such list when, although not quite great themselves, the fighters considered are capable of brutalizing even the best...
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He was both a top defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers football team and a Top 10 heavyweight contender…
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Jimmy and Jack were not strangers. Dempsey and two of the three Darcy brothers, Jimmy and Alex, were all managed by Jack Kearns…
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You looked into that distinctive face of Flowers, with its penetrating eyes, and wondered what stories he would have to tell if he really opened up…
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Something for everyone might as well mean something for everyone to complain about as far as a list such as this goes...
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Fighters shrugged off major defeats with the resigned and philosophical air of a horse flicking away the flies…
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When McFarland exploded onto the world stage in the spring of 1908, he was hailed as a boxing wizard without a discernible fault…
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Dave Shade had a successful, lengthy and newsworthy career finishing with a record of 131 wins, 28 losses and 59 draws...
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“Such a hold has boxing on the boys that take part in it, they are willing to risk, very foolishly, Nature’s most handsome gift – sight...”
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Many years from now, with a silver goatee and an absence of Yes-Men, the fighter spots the businessman who short-changed his legacy...
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The short yet amazing careers of both Les Darcy and Dave Sands resemble the beauty and ensuing emptiness of a shooting star...
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When Tex Rickard and Jack Dempsey faded away, along came Mike Jacobs and Joe Louis. Not a bad substitution…
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Mike Gibbons was one of the early pioneers of the “sweet science,” wherein footwork, timing, distance and balance were fundamental to the art…
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I started fighting professionally at age fourteen and promoters who liked my style called me Battling Siki, which is better for a boxer than Louis Fall…
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There was a lot at stake, a great deal of money to lose, a social and political cost, and possibly jail. Race riots were not going to be an option…
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I don’t let good fortune change me. I’m still polite and friendly. Let some say I have the manners of a servant. The Lord will decide…
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No matter what Ward does, however skilled, however effective, however beautiful to watch, it will never be enough for some…
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We are rewarded with accounts of his major fights so detailed as to be the best possible substitute for actual film, film which sadly, has not survived...
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You don’t batter great boxers unless you train all the time. Ask some competitive distance runners who do road work with me…
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I wouldn't have been in Ketchel’s corner, as I was jailed after my third arrest for smoking opium in a cathouse. Stanley cried when they handcuffed me in court…
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Before sampling the punches of New York, Jack Dempsey had taken the blows meted out by his hard life in the Old West...
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His role model in the ring was the ex-heavyweight champion, the great Jim Corbett. Jack tried to model his private life after “Gentleman Jim” too…
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With my wife I saw a movie based on the life of Paul Gauguin and, after maybe three viewings, I said I've got to try that…
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“As a fan who held my precious baseball in such high regard, it was a kick in the balls to learn that Johnson was allowed to fight and win a heavyweight title…”
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When most active fighters are prematurely judged against the masters of the past by the boxing fraternity, the usual thing happens...
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“Ketchel must have been one of the most frightening guys to fight. You were probably lucky to get knocked out early by him…”
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An unglamorous apprenticeship began in dingy saloons, teaching this gaunt choirboy how to intimidate the uneducated and the quick-tempered...
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I know, in my own mind, who ninety-six of the top one-hundred fighters are—but separating the top four, for me has been all but impossible...
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A destructive vapor of leans, feints, sells, pulled-punches and hard counters, he is a prototype too complex for mass production...
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These men can be “argued” higher, but can the men still to come be seen to be lower? Welcome to the annals of the forty greatest boxers in history...
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Will Rosado vs. Love be a revisiting of Stanley Ketchel’s final and literally thunderous slugfest with Billy Papke? Um, no...