Better All-Around Fighter: Primo Carnera or Riddick Bowe?

Yeah if youre talking about head snapping blows.
But not body moving blows.

Feather fists dont move bodies with punches.
carnera almost tipped Gaines over with a body blow.

The Gifs are from the fight videos on youtube.
Campolo, Gains, Sharkey

 

Why does every writer give Carnera crap for fighting no names at the start of his career?
Every boxer does it, but for some reason Carnera is guilty of it.

There was and still is clearly an unfair expectation of Carneras ability as a boxer due to his size.
He got knocked down by people 100lb smaller then him? Yeah, of course, it's boxing.
If you let someone nail you on the chin you can go down. They probably thought Primo could take any punch from any smaller man because they haven't watched 10,000 knockouts on film like we have, and weren't astute to the realities of getting punched on the chin.

 

QUOTE="reznick, post: 18521422, member: 54206"]Withholding purses was more common back then.
You think they would've given out the purses to Klitschko and Fury for their fight?[/QUOTE]
Yes of course.
Name 5 fights in which purses were withheld from 1928 -1933, fights in which Carnera was not involved ,that's just one a year..

If you had a signed confession from 20 of Carnera's opponents stating that they went into the tank for Primo I don't think you would accept it ,just as you wont accept Carnera's manager Leon See's written statement that many of Carnera's fights were fixed and he gave details and dates to support it.

 

There is simply no way that the second Sharkey fight was fixed.

A knockout of that nature would be almost impossible to stage.

Why even bother quoting the rabblings of somebody recalling the events of the fight, when you can watch the footage in slow motion a dozen times yourself?

Neither Gallico not See should be regarded as reliable sources.

 

Gains beat Carnera easily, I spoke to him at the RAH, he was a lovely old gentleman,happy to big up Jack Dempsey,and George Godfrey , but when I mentioned Carnera ,he just laughed and would not be drawn.

 

Have you seen the fights they say were fixed? Because they did!

 

Why because you don't agree with them?

 

It seems like some of his fights may have been fixed. But it's overstated by writers suspicious of foreigners.
Carnera wasn't a fraud like you imply.

He won the HW title of the world fairly.
Louis and Baer didn't expose him like they would a fraud.

 

No, because of their motives, and the numerous contradictions in their testimonies.

 

I have seen the Sharkey fight, and I know that their testimony regarding that was full of factual errors.

Why then would I trust their testimony on fights that I have not seen?