Several months ago, while researching and reading newsprint on Jack Dempsey, I ran across an article on Harry Greb done by the great boxing writer of the roaring twenties and beyond Joe Williams in ...

There will always be a corner of the boxing world searching for Harry Greb. Searching for footage, facts, for anything more that can fill out what, on paper, might have been the greatest ring career ...

“I was born dead, with a black eye,” the story begins. “But even that early, I must have been too stubborn to quit.” That’s the opening line of the autobiography Toy Bulldog: The Fighting Life and ...

FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS – Light Heavyweight Semi-Final ... 2nd seeded Sam Langford continued his great performance in Friday Night Fights in defeating Harry Greb. Sam Langford out lasted, out toughed ...

Building the perfect pugilist is a monumental task, but one British boxing legend has had a go. 'The Gentleman' is a keen boxing historian so it's perhaps no surprise that Harry Greb was the first ...

On this day in 1926, Theodore “Tiger†Flowers became the first African American middleweight boxing champion after defeating Harry Greb in Madison Square Garden. Flowers was a religious man who ...

The harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was ...

Gene Tunney, former champion of the A. E. F., emerged from the smoke of a battle in Madison Square Garden holding Harry Greb’s light-heavyweight championship of the world. But the smoke had hardly ...