Why isn't Carnera in the IBHOF?

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  1. Legend X

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    True, his health was bad, his kidney had to be removed in 1938.
     
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    Just another thought.

    My Dad is not a boxing fan, and he grew up when Rocky Marciano was champion.

    He probably couldn’t tell you who Jack Sharkey or Max Baer was, but he did recognise the name Primo Carnera when I said it to him.

    We were having dinner in a restaurant where there was a picture of Larry Gains, and he asked me if I knew about this boxer.

    I gave him a brief biography of Gains, and mentioned that he had beaten Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera amongst others.
     
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    Schmeling was an anti-Nazi, who put his own safety in jeopardy to help Jews during the holocaust.

    The man was a bloody hero!
     
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    Yes and it was damaged in his second KO loss to Haynes along with other nasty injuries .. Haynes was far and away his toughest post Louis opponent but not top contender class and he brutalized a still young Carnera twice.
     
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    Maybe if some weren't stupid enough to call Carnera a great fighter these threads would not exist!
     
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    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    Lets not be hasty Mac, there is only 3 of them!
     
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    As a lineal champion with his record, he is way closer to being great than he is to being bad.
    But you're a byproduct of 20th century Boxiana where every fan thought they were the genius, and that the fighter was the dumb mule who could never perform well enough. Including highly accomplished lineal title holders. So it's not completely your fault.
     
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    So proud and mighty of the guy that barely made the other side 4.
    Or is it just three of you now too?
     
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    Who knows?
     
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    And your an immature kid who takes every post he doesn't agree with as a personal affront.
     
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    Tetchy 3, aren't they!
     
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    Did you just call me ugly?!
     
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    Posters can make their own minds up about your personal appearance.All they have to do is watch you beating up that bag,with your frightening power.
     
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    In The Greatest Angelo Dundee is quoted in a discussion about how abstaining from sex before big fights was important and how some fighters used rubber bands to hold back nocturnal admissions said about Carnera " you could have used a whole bunch of rubber bands and it still wouldn't have made Carnera a real fighter. " His assessment on Carnera, not mine.