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...first three rounds of his often postponed fight with Jack Sharkey, Monster Primo Carnera last week danced about a Brooklyn ring with confident aplomb. He smiled for the benefit of 25,000 spectators, whenever Sharkey's right hand reached up to graze his lantern jaw. In the fourth round Sharkey, outweighed 261 Ib. to 2021. thought of an old trick, one which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right...
When Referee Gunboat Smith had counted six, Carnera started to get up. He then sank back and rested on one knee, finally rose eight seconds after the knock down. Sharkey, maintaining his reputation for hysterical behavior in crucial moments, seized Referee Smith, screeched that he had won the fight by a knock out, then tried to jump out of the ring headfirst. His seconds persuaded him to resume the fight. For the next eleven rounds Sharkey adopted the brilliantly aggressive style which he uses when he is confident of winning, Carnera, devoid of aplomb, countered Sharkey's punches with...
Less widely known is the early history of Primo Carnera. Born in Sequal, near Venice, oldest son of a mosaic worker, he quickly outgrew an apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager...
...Monster Carnera has partially absorbed his manager's point of view. No longer a placidly exaggerated cement-mixer or a down-at-heel and hungry wrestler, he has grown proud of his monstrosity, now regards his own size as the proper one and smiles at the deficiencies of normal-sized persons.* In the ring, he grunts loudly and grimaces, dances lightly on his great feet, lunges quickly with his fists. Out of the ring he dresses in loose, bright-colored clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment...
...Monster Carnera would be unable to smile at Orchestra Leader Paul Whiteman who once weighed 305 lb., is now reported to have reduced to 210. He would have been impudent if he had smiled at the late William Howard Taft who weighed 340 lb. while in the White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest...