It was no surprise that Harry Greb and Tommy Loughran both missed weight on the morning of their Christmas Day fight in 1923. In what was supposed to be a defence of Greb's world middleweight title at ...

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 ...

Harry Greb once fought 45 times in a year (1919). And he missed the first two weeks of January and clocked off three days before Christmas. The man was a machine. He didn’t start boxing until he was ...

No less an authority on embellished sports tales than Damon Runyon once said, "Ninety-five percent of sports tradition is fiction. Lies, if you like. But harmless. Who the hell cares if the facts get ...

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 ...

Harry Greb once fought 45 times in a year (1919). And he missed the first two weeks of January and clocked off three days before Christmas. The man was a machine. He didn’t start boxing until he was ...