Harry Greb

Harry Greb
Data
Birth Name	Edward Henry Greb
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	US-american
birthday	June 6, 1894
place of birth	Pittsburgh
Date of death	October 22, 1926
Place of death	Atlantic City
style	Left delivery
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	299
Victories	261
Knockout victories	48
Defeats	21st
draw	15th
No value	2

Harry Greb (* 6. June 1894 in Pittsburgh as Edward Henry Greb ; † 22. October 1926 in Atlantic City ) was an American middleweight boxer.

Career

Greb fought 299 fights from 1912 to 1926, many of them in the so-called "No Decision era". He didn't lose a fight by knockout , but two prematurely by injury.

As a typical pressure fighter , he won against the light heavyweights "Battling" Levinsky, Tommy Loughran (four out of five fights), Maxie Rosenbloom , Tommy Gibbons (two out of three fights) and his brother Mike (one win, one loss) and before especially Gene Tunney , who later became world heavyweight champion. Against Tunney he became US light heavyweight champion in 1922, but was later defeated four times, two results are considered controversial. Other renowned light heavyweights he defeated were Hoosier Bearcat and Jack Dillon , whom he beat twice. Other known defeated opponents were George Chip, Al McCoy, Jeff Smith, Mike McTigue, Eddie McGoorty and Jimmy Slattery.

Bill Brennan and "Gunboat" Smith were even heavyweights. According to legend, he was once a brief sparring partner for Jack Dempsey and looked so good that he was sent away.

In 1923 he became world middleweight champion against southpaw Johnny Wilson, defended the title in 1925 against one of the best welterweights of all time with Mickey Walker and lost him in the year of his death in 1926 to the black southpaw Tiger Flowers. It was unusual to box southpaws at the time, and boxers like Dempsey didn't box against blacks either, so that wasn't a problem for him.

He fought his last fights with a blind eye. Greb died at the age of 32 after complications from a nose operation.

The Ring Magazine considers him the third-best middleweights of all time, after Sugar Ray Robinson and Carlos Monzón and above Stanley Ketchel and Marvin Hagler . The sister magazine KO Magazine voted him in 1994, behind welterweight Fritzie Zivic, as the second unfair boxer of all time. Greb is also a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame .

Others

Greb was the son of a German father (his father was a German immigrant from Roßdorf near Amöneburg ( Hesse )) and an Irish mother.

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personal data
SURNAME	Greb, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Greb, Edward Henry (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American middleweight boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1926
Place of death	Atlantic City