Fay Keiser

 

 

Fay Keiser fought the great Hall of Famers during his time including Gene Tunney, Harry Greb, and Tommy Loughran. Keiser is best known for his 8 fights with Harry Greb. Fay Keiser made a bid for the world middleweight championship belt when he fought Harry Greb on 3/24/1924. Kaiser lost that bout by a TKO in the 12th.

It is said styles make fights. It's also known that some fighters simply have another boxers "number". Well, Fay Keiser had Harry Greb's number by winning 4 of their 8 fights, not a small feat. Although the only two official decisions were won by Greb, 4 newspaper decisions between 1914 and 1915 were given to Keiser. These were the 2nd and 3rd years of Greb's early professional career. Fay Keiser has argueably the most defeats applied to Greb by any boxer.

 

Keiser was also able to take Gene Tunney too the distance in both of their fights in 1922. That year was Tunney in his prime when he won the American Light heaveyweight title against Battling Levinsky. That year Tunney also beat Greb, Tommy Loughran, and Whitey Wenzel. Keiser showed his true grit by taking Tunney to the distance twice that year.

In March 1924 there was a contreversial stoppage in his battle against old rival Harry Greb in Baltimore. The referee was woefully unfit, was puffing from early in the fight, and "rescued" the outraged Keiser in round 12, because he feared, by his own addmission, that if he let it go on any further he might himself collapse with a heart attack.

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RING RECORD AS OF 1924: 32 wins - 10 losses - 8 ND's -10 draw - (79 total bouts)

 selected bouts

 

---AMATEURS---
1913
Dec 23	1913	M.C. Ferguson			Pitts.			Win   (recorded in the Pittsburgh post. Dec 24, 1913.  Page 12)



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1914
Apr 14	1914	Harry    Greb			Pitts.			ND 6 (L news)
May 13	1914	Harry    Greb			Pitts.			ND 6 (W news)

1915
unknown	1915	Joe      Chip			unknown			W 6
May 31	1915	Harry    Greb			Connelsvil.		ND 6 (W news)
Jun 25	1915	Harry    Greb			Maryland		ND 10 (W news)
Jul 22	1915	Harry    Greb			Maryland		ND 10 (W news)
unknown	1915	Whitey Wenzel			unknown			W 10

1916
unknown	1916	Al     Rogers			unknown			KO 3
Sep 4	1916	Harry    Greb			Maryland		L 10 
unknown	1916	George KO Brown			unknown			KO 3
unknown	1916	Jackie  Clark			unknown			Draw 10
unknown	1916	KO    Sweeney			unknown			W 10
unknown	1916	Jackie  Clark			unknown			Draw 10
unknown	1916	Leo     Houck			unknown			Draw 10

1917
Jan 29	1917	Harry    Greb			Maryland		L 20

1919
unknown	1919	Bob    Martin			unknown			L 10

1920
unknown	1920	Leo     Houck			unknown			W 10

1921
Mar 5	1921	Buck   Crouse			Pitts.			W 10
Oct 14	1921	Billy   Shade			New York		L 15
Dec 6	1921	Harry    Greb			Philad.			ND 8 (L news)
unknown	1921	Bob Fitzsimmons			unknown			L 8

1922
Feb 7	1922	Tommy Loughran			Philadel.		ND 8
Mar 3	1922	Gene   Tunney			GrandRap.		ND 10
unknown	1922	Happy Littleton			unknown			KO by 15
Jul 7	1922	Gene   Tunney			New York		L 12

1923
unknown	1923	Jeff     Smith			unknown			ND 12

1924
Mar 24	1924	Harry    Greb			Baltimore		TKO by 12
Mar 31	1924	Jimmy Slattery			Buffalo			KO by 3
Nov 11	1924	Young Stribling			S.Carol.		KO by 4
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