Word: carnera
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...heavyweight champion of the work can, by rights, beat anyone who will fight him without weapons. There were last week possibly half a dozen men in the world capable of beating Champion Primo Carnera but it seemed unlikely that Max Adelbert Baer was among them. An exuberant young pugilist who enjoys night life more than fighting, Baer had trained so nonchalantly that a member of the New York State Boxing Commission threatened to have the fight cancelled because the challenger was in such pooi physical condition. Even after a committee of physicians had examined Baer's 210-lb. hulk...
...crowd of 60.000 Baer's reaction was amazing. With a blow of his right hand, which he swings as if it still held the meat axe with which he used to butcher heifers, he knocked Carnera down...
...Baer won the World's Heavyweight Championship from Prime Carnera by a technical knockout in the 11th round at the Madison Square Garden Bowl. Carnera was repeatedly knocked down, from first round to the last...
...York, April 30-Max Bear, the Casanova of clout, returned to New York's from California today an announced in stentorian tones that on the night of June 14th he will, by virtue of knocking Prim Carnera loose from his mornings, become world heavyweight champion...
...Bear also made it known that he dislikes Adolf Hitler, that he dislikes women until after the Carnera fight, and that he is hopeful of marrying into nobility and acquiring a title