George Carpentier vs. James Scott

The KD in the fourth and Smith supposedly getting a long count was a non issue cooked up by Descamps when his performance and the idea that Carpentier should have been DQd was thrown around. The films of the fight showed that Smith beat the count.

McKetrick's story needs to be framed in its proper context. At the time McKetrick managed Young Ahearn. Young Ahearn had been discussed as Carpentier's next opponent but when the Smith bout created so much controversy an immediate rematch was proposed. Had the rematch taken place Ahearn and McKetrick would have been out of a lucrative payday. This put McKetrick at odds with Jim Buckley, Smith's manager and he even mentions being thrown out of the arena at Buckley's insistence in that article, so he was hardly going to give a favorable account of Smith against Carpentier.

Here is another first hand account that states Carpentier was faking:
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Many contemporary people said that Carpintier was one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Klompton says that he was a paper tiger.

The truth most likely lies somewhere betwixt.