With Greb rounding into form, he moves on to face some legendary middleweight champions from the first half of the twentieth century . . .
Harry Greb "runs the gauntlet" - part one
“Red” Mason was probably engaged in grandstanding for the sake of selling tickets, but the manager’s optimism when the papers were first signed for his fighter to “Run The Gauntlet” against the lineal Middleweight champions of the world was unbridled. “Harry [Greb] is the best that ever tied on the gloves at this weight, and there’s not a one of these chumps that can stand up to him inside the ropes,” Mason opined at the pre-series presser. “There wasn’t anything like him then, and there ain’t anything close now, and you’ll see that in the ring.”
Suffice it to say that, shameless shilling or not, neither Mason nor Greb himself would have anticipated how things played out as the series got underway . . .
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