Harry Greb and Weightlifting

[greynotsoold]

Harry Greb is considered the ultimate guy that stayed in shape by fighting. Look at his arms in this picture.Did he do presses with his opponents?
Harry Greb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[IamInuit]

Fought 49 times in a year once.

[Andre]

You know how some people just have that energy that raises as they fight into long rounds he was one of them so Ive read. Probably the hardest bastard there was, turned out he was blind in one eye and still fought on for a few years. That mans an old style machine.These boys would work with axes or load coal in the sun into rail carts all day long with hardly a break. Tough as they come.Who needs weights?

[beenKOed]

Fought 49 times in a year once.

Sounds like dynamo with some insanity thrown in. Man, once a week. Amazing!

[IamInuit]

Fought 49 times in a year once.

Sounds like dynamo with some insanity thrown in. Man, once a week. Amazing!

I think Young Stribling fought 55 times one year but would have to check.

[powerpuncher]

i always say that the difference between fighters now and then is that at that time, people had to just keep fighting to put food on the table. its not like now to where these fighters will have a match 2-3 times and year and get out of shape in between fights. as you can see now, all of the best fighters of the past decade have stayed in shape year round (mayweather, bhop, jones, etc). this is no coincidence.

i wish more than anything that there were fight tapes of greb. i wish that i could see what his windmill style really looked like.

[Beanflicker]

Fighting once a week sounds impressive until you realize that a lot of those guys didn't belong in the ring with him and were little more than sparring sessions.

It's not like these guys were fighting world beaters every time out. Nobody can do that.

[IamInuit]

i always say that the difference between fighters now and then is that at that time, people had to just keep fighting to put food on the table. its not like now to where these fighters will have a match 2-3 times and year and get out of shape in between fights. as you can see now, all of the best fighters of the past decade have stayed in shape year round (mayweather, bhop, jones, etc). this is no coincidence.

i wish more than anything that there were fight tapes of greb. i wish that i could see what his windmill style really looked like.

He was not a flailing wild man like the term windmill suggests. He was way ahead of his time and like Armstrong probably had an over-sized heart. He got his nickname from throwing over a hundred punches a round and seemed to run on perpetual motion. Dempsey wouldn't fight him.

[IamInuit]

Harry Greb is considered the ultimate guy that stayed in shape by fighting. Look at his arms in this picture.Did he do presses with his opponents?
Harry Greb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@greynotsoold Joe Gans is another mutant and most definitely a top 5 atg lightweight. Fought close to 180 times only losing ten times and scored 100 ko's. Only stopped 5 times and two of those to the crazy man Nelson in the 17th and 21st rounds in scheduled 45 round fights at the very end of his career. On one occasion the guy fought Holly who was 27/0 and after the fight jumped on a train traveled cross country and then fought Langford the next day and at a higher weight. Child's play I suppose for today's crop of elite lightweights LOL.