Dear friends,
the Italian sporting journal "La Gazzetta dello Sport" edited and published a critical issue of the Carnera's manuscript, an autobiographical recollection that his daughter found out accidentally last year. The book reproduces in left side the original Carnera-written manuscript, in right side the transcritption, plus an apparatus of explicative notes.
Many pictures from Carnera's Museum adobe the book, which is on sale at Euros 6.90 together with "La Gazzetta dello Sport". People interested to get has to go to a kiosk which sell international journals and ask how is possible to buy a copy of the book. By the way, the book returns on the old-debated (also here in Boxrec) question of Carnera's height. At the medical check for military service, Carnera was measured at mt 1.96.
Friendly yours
Gherardo Bonini
Carnera's manuscript
for years the only film i had seen of the baer/carnera fight consisted of the knockdown rounds, which makes it look like a one sided slaughter. i always wondered why the knockdowns were spread fo far apart. just recently, on classic boxing tv they showed much more of the fight and it answered a lot of questions. i've read the boxing commissioner before the fight said baer wasn't in good shape, and you can see that here. ( it was said maxie just would never really train). these rounds show that baer expended most of his energy in those knockdown rounds. just went out and swung and carnera went down. but...he kept getting up..and much of the time he was moving forward and jabbing and max was backing up and just fooling around. carnera was too slow to catch him, so max basically just walked around but technically carnera was the aggresive one..and showed a decent jab. (Joe Louis said carnera wasn't a very good fighter "be he had a good left jab. could push you away with it.") to me it was obvious baer was afraid he'd punch himself out if he kept up his barrage,and carnera kept getting up, so he attacked in spurts and of course then it became just a pounding. but...he did land that right hand with all its considerable power....and carnera went down...but when the fight was stopped he was on his feet.
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Gherardo Bonini
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Carnera's manuscript
Dear friends,
As mentioned, the manuscript was a personal recollection made by Carnera around 1939 or 1940. The boxer re-think to his childhood and pictures with emotion his parents, his village, his lady master of primary school (he was high a bit more than her, his mates said “you’re the boy-friend of the lady master !”, he interrupted the school at 4th year) but rapidly goes to his French period and his meeting with Léon Sée (former weightlifting middleweight champion of Britain in 1904) and Dickson. He admits that Sée was very foxy and he introduced him to a fortunate career. During all his writings, the reader perceive the fact Carnera was naïf but not too much, but he has no word of angry for nobody. He apostrophes Baer as a ‘buffone’ (joker), but without acrimony, he say “I was no in perfect condition after 1st round”, indeed he was not hitted but ankle-broken, there’s the reproduction of x-ray analysis, the bone was broken, when he glided on the wet ring. Paradoxically, the cover picture reproduces the cinematographic match between him and Baer. In the movie “Prizefighter and the Lady” (in Italian, absurdely translated in “L’idolo delle donne”, literarily “The idol of women”), Jack Dempsey refereed the match. The photo reproduces Baer knocked out. Maybe a secret dream of the editors of the book……The nightmare of Schaaf’s death occupies several intense pages, he mentioned the message of the Schaaf’s mother who wrote she has not hate for him. Fascist propaganda succeeded in himpering any photo of Carnera down in front of Brown Bomber circulated in Italy, but Carnera has respectful words for Joe. In the late pages, Pina Kovacevic, Carnera’s wife, occupies all the account, Carnera demonstrates that boxing was simply a tool for life, not an obsession. Among pictures, I was touched by that of early days of June 1967, just few days before death (34 exact years after his win over Sharkey, also 29 June 1929 he left Sequals for his life adventure), when Nino Benvenuti visited him at Sequals. Carnera was already destroyed by cancer, the Giant was worn-out, a zombi, but his smile to Nino is full of emotions and live…..
Friendly yours
Gherardo Bonini
As mentioned, the manuscript was a personal recollection made by Carnera around 1939 or 1940. The boxer re-think to his childhood and pictures with emotion his parents, his village, his lady master of primary school (he was high a bit more than her, his mates said “you’re the boy-friend of the lady master !”, he interrupted the school at 4th year) but rapidly goes to his French period and his meeting with Léon Sée (former weightlifting middleweight champion of Britain in 1904) and Dickson. He admits that Sée was very foxy and he introduced him to a fortunate career. During all his writings, the reader perceive the fact Carnera was naïf but not too much, but he has no word of angry for nobody. He apostrophes Baer as a ‘buffone’ (joker), but without acrimony, he say “I was no in perfect condition after 1st round”, indeed he was not hitted but ankle-broken, there’s the reproduction of x-ray analysis, the bone was broken, when he glided on the wet ring. Paradoxically, the cover picture reproduces the cinematographic match between him and Baer. In the movie “Prizefighter and the Lady” (in Italian, absurdely translated in “L’idolo delle donne”, literarily “The idol of women”), Jack Dempsey refereed the match. The photo reproduces Baer knocked out. Maybe a secret dream of the editors of the book……The nightmare of Schaaf’s death occupies several intense pages, he mentioned the message of the Schaaf’s mother who wrote she has not hate for him. Fascist propaganda succeeded in himpering any photo of Carnera down in front of Brown Bomber circulated in Italy, but Carnera has respectful words for Joe. In the late pages, Pina Kovacevic, Carnera’s wife, occupies all the account, Carnera demonstrates that boxing was simply a tool for life, not an obsession. Among pictures, I was touched by that of early days of June 1967, just few days before death (34 exact years after his win over Sharkey, also 29 June 1929 he left Sequals for his life adventure), when Nino Benvenuti visited him at Sequals. Carnera was already destroyed by cancer, the Giant was worn-out, a zombi, but his smile to Nino is full of emotions and live…..
Friendly yours
Gherardo Bonini
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Gherardo Bonini
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Baer knocked.... down
Dear Jaclem,
good to know ! The Italian propaganda hitted again ! The sentence of the book does not say explicitly Baer K.o.'d, but the reader extracts logically what I wrote. However, thanks, I'll bear it in mind, be sure !
Friendly yours
Gherardo
good to know ! The Italian propaganda hitted again ! The sentence of the book does not say explicitly Baer K.o.'d, but the reader extracts logically what I wrote. However, thanks, I'll bear it in mind, be sure !
Friendly yours
Gherardo