Harry Greb and Weightlifting

**IamInuit** · 04-24-2014 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

**powerpuncher** · 04-25-2014 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

im not saying that he was out of control but from everything that i have heard, he was very aggressive in the ring and his opponents said that he tended to use his head and elbows. i hold greb in very high regard. i just think that if he fought today a lot of people would call him a cheater just like people call ward a cheater for his tactics despite his greatness.