Michael Moorer top 20 all time heavyweight scenario

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Feb 1922 Tunney at 174 1/2lbs was a big LHvy fighting a Greb who, at 162 1/2lbs was a middleweight.


Too much is made of Tunney's wins over Greb imo.Posters forget the weight differential.

Tunney was the superior Lhvy ,his natural weight. Greb was a natural middleweight.

When two fighters draw in the second to last of their series ,and one weighs175lbs and the other166lbs and the majority think the lighter man deserved the win.
Who is the superior fighter?
Two out of three Cleveland papers scored it for Greb (the other called it a draw).Stuart M. Bell from Cleveland Plain Dealer scored for Greb 6-3-1, the Massilon(Ohio)Evening Independent scored it for Greb;
Lima News (AP) called it a win for Greb, but reported that many ringsiders thought Tunney had the edge; Ray Coll in Pittsburgh Gazette-Times scored it a draw;
Zanesville Signal (INS wire) gave edge to Greb 5-4-1; Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune/Milwaukee Journal (United News wire) said newspapermen gave Greb "all but the tenth round"; Jim Jab from Pittsburg Press scored for Greb 7-3.


Level weights both prime who wins?

Greb was just "Greb." He had enough skill to fight up with the handicap. I trust the news guys much more than judges. I look at their fights as a case where two ATG fighters were able to give a good account, with neither man showing consistent domination, enough to be declared the winner with no caveats...

Greb most certainly was a middle weight and Tunney a light heavy. This obviously was a major physical advantage for Tunney.