ALL THIS TALK about Mike Tyson getting involved with wrestling reminds me of some other former heavyweight champions who went to the mat because they were in need of something. In the case of the ...
Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a ...
We were looking at the 1947 movie, “The Harder They Fall,” and I had read it was a fairly close version of Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera’s checkered boxing career. Seeing that movie took me way ...
We were looking at the 1947 movie, “The Harder They Fall,” and I had read it was a fairly close version of Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera’s checkered boxing career. Seeing that movie took me way ...