Primo Carnera - 85" reach?

I just read somewhere that Carnera had a reach of 85 inches. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

I think that would mean that he and Tyson Fury are tied for the longest reach of the HW champs.

 

Yes, but I'd expect the record to be broken soon.

The unofficial reach for reach is Bol vs Perry, a charity boxing match, where Bol who was over 7'5" tall had a reach of 106"

 

Julius Long has a 90" reach.

Here was very close to being champ.

 

Former WBO heavyweight belt holder had an 86 inch reach.

 

Henry Akinwande, forgot to provide the name, sorry.

 

I know this is not a Tyson Fury thread but he is something else to watch, imagine a 240lb 100% focused Tyson Fury moving around the ring and jabbing the sh*t out of you!!!

 

I wonder what Mitus reach was.
You think even longer than Bol?

 

And the fact that he's hard to read, and has an unorthodox rhythm. Oh man, what a combination of pain and confusion it must be to fight him. Screw that.

 

When Fury became lineal champion, he set a new record for height, and tied the previous record for reach with Carnera.

 

But surely having a long reach doesn't automatically mean you must have the most effective or quickest jab?

 

Nobody said it did.
But even so, it wouldn't have to be for his reach to be a very valuable asset.

 

Fury jab is not his most effective but I know that I wouldn't want to be in the ring with someone of that stature...moving & jabbing!

 

The great thing about Tyson Fury is that he still kind of looks a bit crap.
I mean, when you observe him casually or analyse each individual asset of his, it's not impressive, he's clumsy or he's doing it wrong. But when you see what he's doing when he puts it all together you gotta give him credit. He's one of those awkward unorthodox 'genius' fighters, kind of like Michael Spinks.

 

I think Fury is underrated. He's so tall, so long and keep moving. In shape he has decent stamina. Like you said he puts it all together.

I think he can't take a good punch, and his power is nothing special, and because of that fighters should not not be aphrenrsive about pressuring him.

To beat him, you must engage. If you sit back, he has too many advantages.

 

Yeah, it's his size and his footwork that's keeping them from doing that though.
He tends to take the correct steps at the correct angles to neutralize the opponent. He stays that step ahead.
You are right, the best chance for anyone fighting him is to keep applying pressure, to either break his rhythm, wear him down or get in a KO punch.
Hopefully we'll see him in a ring again, and hopefully back to about where he was in 2014-2015.