Description
Primo Carnera
Alias: The Ambling Alp
Born: 1906-10-25
Hometown: Sequals, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Died: 1967-06-29 (Age: 60)
88-14-0
71 KOs 5 KOs
Division: heavy
Bouts: 102
Career: 1928-1946
Debut: 1928-09-12
Culturally and historically, Carnera is important for being one of the heavyweights who helped keep the sport alive after the retirement of Jack Dempsey and during the bleak trials of the Great Depression. He proved to be a thrilling curiosity for the public who set attendance records just to see him flatten overmatched local pugs. In this way he reflected the circumstances and outlook of the world during the Great Depression and the Second World War
