"It is all true" - Primo Carnera, 1948 Fill your boots. If by, "connected", you mean having to deal with them sometimes? Sure. Primo was a 100% owned asset of The Mob. I know where you're going with this. You're reaching. Enough testimony has been provided to draw a fair conclusion. If you can't refute the testimony (which you cannot); not just simply dismiss or ignore it, then that's a considerable weight of evidence of Carnera having been a manufactured product.
You are cutting off the ring well- you do have him on the ropes but finishing Jan there is another animal.
Exactly what I meant by your ignoring and dismissing evidence. How do you know it's a throwaway comment? You don't. That Carnera follows up with: "But I wish [Schulberg] had come to me. I would tell him so much more." rather pours cold water on that meaningless retort of yours.
You might want to look at Joe Louis's management. Almost e very significant fighter of that era, whether it was Joe Louis, or Sugar Ray, had links to the mob! I don't have to refute that testimony. The people making it, have to prove it. Anything that is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. If I claim that there is a purple penguin, you don't have to prove that there isn't one. I have to prove that there is one, or there is noting to debate!
Carnera knew that his management were corrupt, and he did not have a very high opinion of them. He was not saying anything very specific. This is not the nuclear weapon that you seem to think it is!
But it clearly wasn't! That was probably a tongue in cheek response, by a man who had English as his second language, possibly misquoted. I am sorry, but this does not amount to a confession, and if it is, then it is not clear what it is a confession about. Also you don't get to cherry pick testimony from random magazines. If Carnera's testimony counts for something, then all of it counts.