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Primo Carnera vs Wladamir Klitschko?

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  1. I almost never find a reason to disagree with glactus, but in this case, I have to point out that Lamont Brewster and Cory Sanders flattened Wladamir.  If guys like than can expose Klitschko's chin, Carnera would have shattered Wlad's jaw like an egg shell.

    Carnera walks through about ten nice quick jabs, and lands a big right hand.  Lights out for Klitschko.

    Primo Carnera by KO.


  2. Easy one.  Klitschko.

    Wladamir is a careful boxer.  He will peck you to death with the jab until you become a sitting duck. Then he will blast you outta there.   I'd like to see him make better use of the power he has.  He's like Lennox in that he will have a bazooka in one hand but beat you with a stick instead of just finishing you with the bazooka.  

    Carnera will enter the ring a ''sitting duck''.  His size was his greatest handicap.  Wladamir would not have to soften Primo up because he's alrady there to be hit.  Wladamir would hit him hard and fast in the early going.  PRimo would not know how to deal with a guy his size but with Wladamir's abilities.  He would be totatlly befuddled and wiped out early.

    Klitschko by KO in 2

  3. I don't agree that Carnera would be a sitting duck at all. Look at some films of Carnera fighting. He actually had a very hard, jolting jab (look at the Ernie Schaaf fight) and a fair left hook and right. He gets a bad press because of the Baer fight and some of his later performances, but do we say the same about Frazier or Norton because of their performances against Foreman and Cooney? I think Carnera's problems were twofold 1) although tremendously strong he tended to lack explosive power, which made his punching puzzlingly inconsistent - sometimes he would cleary jolt or even lift (as he did to Sharkey) an opponent with a seemingly innocuous punch (like the jab that killed Schaaf), and at times the same punch would seem completely innefective 2) this probably combined with his problems timing and judging distance on his punches - when he "got lucky" and his timing was on his punches could be very effective but a lot of the time his timing was just that bit off. Baer also teed off on him in their fight, but failed to put him away cleanly, so I don't think he had a glass jaw, certainly no more than Klitchko has.

    But back to the question in hand, comparing their boxing and punching and who they were stopped by in their primes  (Baer and Louis for Carnera, Brewster  and Sanders for Klitchko) I would certainly say Carnera had a chance. And if he was in there he could knock Klitchko out.

    I'm going to give Carnera the benefit of the doubt and say he kayos Klitchko in 6.

  4. Primo Carnera was a circus freak, uncoordinated and for a big boy like Klitschko with some skills and coordination to be in the ring with him is an awful mismatch.  Wladamir would finish him up by KO 8.

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