Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
Of course we cant say who was the better technically.

Not too hard to work out who would have more grit though ,they were much tougher men back then .
HArry Creb middleweight but fought up to light heavy ,fought 294 times and lost eight of them in 13 years. named 'the human windmill 'cause he would come forwards and land from any direction and was booed frequently as the villian in fights from where hits would land.
He had been blind in one eye for about 3 years and retired from the game at 32 (I think the soft boys of today would be at the eye clinic) not still in the ring fighting other champs off their world title with only one eye.
(6 defences).
Turns out Harry should of stayed in the ring they accidently killied him in the hospital with too much anastetic when he did go to get his good eye improved on! These men fought more rounds every fight than they do today and they went all out for every one of them.
With Gene Tunny saying he never wanted to ever fight him again after Harry took his light heavyweight title off him,and Mickey Walker stating Harry as the toughest fighter he ever faced,gives you an idea it wasn't just luck.
Makes Gene Tunny look better than the records too, cause after he took a 15 round beating off Harry and had said he doesn't ever want to face him again he stayed away for a while and worked out how to beat Harry, which he then did on four occasions.

Yeah but lets not kid ourselves, the middleweights and LHW's of his day were smaller physically than the middleweightts and LHW's of today. Even Gene Tunney never weighted in more than than 200lbs even when fighting heavyweight.