POLL: Was Carnera's knockout of Sharkey legit?

This is one of the most laughably slanted poll questions I have ever seen.

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And there is interesting no clip to go with the question.
Here we go:
https://streamable.com/e6p57

What about a choice for a forearm smash?

 

I'm not convinced it was the forearm that hit him. There's every chance it was the fist.

 

He gives three options to vote for ,I cant see what's slanted about that?


Want to recap some of your own voting threads?lol

 

There's reasonable question marks ovee it, but I currently think no.

I think the over acting, was really just Sharkey trying to move back from it

 

The video proves nothing either way.
Asssuming it was a dive, it's neither a particularly good one, or a particularly bad one.

 

Its possible but given the background to the fight, I tend to think he went for a swim.

 

It looks fake. I don't believe Carnera could beat Jack Sharkey.

 

Sharkey was not an old fighter on the decline, and a bit overweight. So Carner could well KO him legitimately at that point.
But I believe it was a fix.

 

He looked a bit flabby, was that perhaps because he knew what the result was going to be and trained accordingly?
N.B. Sharkey was actually 4lbs lighter than he had been a year earlier when he won the title from Schmeling.

 

Is there footage of it from any other angles?

That could help a lot.

 

True.
He went on to lose to Levinsky and Loughran in his next two fights of 1932, so it's safe to say he was well past his best. That's my point.

 

I have no idea myself. I've read stuff saying it was but I've read stuff saying it wasn't too. I don't think the film gives much away.