Thanks for that. Looking at his accomplishments, hearing how highly other fighters thought of him at that time and seeing footage of some of the fighters he beat certainly indicates he was something special.

That website link you posted in the other thread has a few newspaper articles about the possibility of Greb fighting Dempsey. It mentions the sparring sessions and of a deal being close at one point around 1922, but doesn't say why they never fought. Why was that? Did Dempsey just decide against it and to continue touring the country? The articles date to about 1920 when it talks of a possible Greb-Dempsey match, and Dempsey only fought 6 times between 1920 and 1926 against Miske (for whom he sparred with Greb), Brennan, Carpentier, Darcy, Gibbons and Firpo.

Or was it because Greb lost twice to Tunney and once to Loughran in 1923, killing the possibility of a Dempsey fight? Just curious as to why it never happened when the articles indicated it was almost a done deal