It was already fake. Especially on carnival circuit.
I said he was a trainer wrestler. It seems you tried to dispute it. Carnera himself claimed he'd wrestled on the European continent from the age...
I don't think it's a bad fight at all. Forget the silly title and weight class, this is a reasonable fight for these two heavyweight fringe...
Full article for anyone interested : https://classicwrestlingarticles.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/carnera-likes-the-rassling-dollars/
Plenty of sources describe his pre-boxing career as including circus freak, strongman and carnival/circus wrestler in Italy and France. From a...
But Carnera's people had tried all that before, with Primo hitting people normally with his gloved fists, with opponents flopping to the canvas,...
For a start, this "punch" very possibly wasn't a FIST at all, and was in fact a FOREARM. Which alone should be cause for considering it unusual.
I don't assume anything's legit unless I'm 100% convinced. There are lots of KOs that are questionable.
That's not true. It is normally assumed that the people who fixed it were mostly in Carnera's camp anyway. Watched it hundreds of times....
Why not ?
Well, lots of things cannot be 100% proved. This isn't a court of law. My opinion is that the footage doesn't show anything that is 100%...
It wouldn't be at all hard to stage if both were in on it and the bounce off the ropes was the signal. Especially when one of the parties...
It appears from what is shown on film that Carnera/Sharkey may well have pulled a move known in pro wrestling as the "European uppercut". Those...
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Not really. Obviously when faking a KO, that's precisely the impression they aim to give. But it could easily have been faked.
