Primo Carnera Speaks ...

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  1. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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  2. janitor

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    You have to give Carnera one thing.

    He was up for fighting the best challengers.
     
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  3. El Puma

    El Puma between rage and serenity Full Member

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    I like him based on how he ducked no one and he was loved in Italy and his generousity towards children when he had his ice-cream shop.

    He gets ripped on far too much.
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    You said it all El Puma!

    Change you're avatar please, you're making me feel inadequate.
     
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  5. Unforgiven

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    Carnera was good. He was an okay champion, and a decent and intelligent man.
    He gets ripped because Paul Gallico and Budd Schulberg made sensationalist fictional portraits of him, grossly embellished some negatives surrounding him, and that image of him has been adopted wholesale by generations of American writers and "boxing historians".
     
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  6. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Primo was as brave as any man that entered the ring ... a huge heart ..
     
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  7. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    HE, Primo was a brave soul in an out of the ring. The beating he took from the young Max Baer, in which he was dropped ELEVEN TIMES and took all that punishment with great bravery...A nice gentle giant was Primo...
     
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    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  9. red cobra

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    I agree Puma..he was a kind hearted guy..a "gentle giant" if there ever was one.:good
     
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  10. criceto

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    Because the broklen ankle..people always forgot this detail
     
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  11. red cobra

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    Let's not kid ourselves though..if Baer had fought Primo as he did Schmeling..with that mean streak, he'd have broken more than Primo's ankle.
     
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    "So many fights, so many fun"
     
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  13. criceto

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    Baer broke his ankle, try to do even a light sparring with a broken ankle..then punched Primo several times when Primo was floored..he was beyond cunning.
    Say that Primo would close the distance and outpoint Baer that would lost his focus in the later rounds.
     
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    :deal it is a crime that this ever became the established opinion. Carnera was not a fraud.
     
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