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Which British based Canadian fighter beat a Future (non UK) World Champion in Britain, but many years later lost to the same fighter in a wrestling match?

KOJOE90 wrote:Which British based Canadian fighter beat a Future (non UK) World Champion in Britain, but many years later lost to the same fighter in a wrestling match?

Davey Hilton Sr?

knockout artist wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:Which British based Canadian fighter beat a Future (non UK) World Champion in Britain, but many years later lost to the same fighter in a wrestling match?

Davey Hilton Sr?

No, sorry wrong answer.

Larry Gains.

bennie wrote:Larry Gains.

did Ali fight in a WWF ring against a fighter?

bennie wrote:Larry Gains.

Correct!!!!!

KOJOE90 wrote:

bennie wrote:Larry Gains.

Correct!!!!!

you should of put, no one can enter that saw it happen

REAL_DEAL wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:

bennie wrote:Larry Gains.

Correct!!!!!

you should of put, no one can enter that saw it happen

MEEEOOOW!!!!

REAL_DEAL wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:

bennie wrote:Larry Gains.

Correct!!!!!

you should of put, no one can enter that saw it happen

Larry beat Primo Carnera in this country. I knew Carnera wrestled after his boxing career came to an end (and made more money than he ever did as a boxer, given he was controlled by mobsters when fighting), so put two and two together.

bennie wrote:

REAL_DEAL wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote: Correct!!!!!

you should of put, no one can enter that saw it happen

Larry beat Primo Carnera in this country. I knew Carnera wrestled after his boxing career came to an end (and made more money than he ever did as a boxer, given he was controlled by mobsters when fighting), so put two and two together.

That's right, Im just on the last few pages of the book 'Primo, The Story Of Man Mountain Carnera' by Frederic Mullally.

How he was used and abussed is quite sickening, the book itself is quite interesting and seems well written, but it does leave me with a few questions that I intend to post on this Furom over the next few days.

KOJOE90 wrote:

bennie wrote:

REAL_DEAL wrote: you should of put, no one can enter that saw it happen

Larry beat Primo Carnera in this country. I knew Carnera wrestled after his boxing career came to an end (and made more money than he ever did as a boxer, given he was controlled by mobsters when fighting), so put two and two together.

That's right, Im just on the last few pages of the book 'Primo, The Story Of Man Mountain Carnera' by Frederic Mullally.

How he was used and abussed is quite sickening, the book itself is quite interesting and seems well written, but it does leave me with a few questions that I intend to post on this Furom over the next few days.

Carnera and Tommy Burns are two of the most underrated heavyweight champions of all time. Carnera outjabbed the brilliant-boxing Tommy Loughran for 15 rounds.

bennie wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:

bennie wrote: Larry beat Primo Carnera in this country. I knew Carnera wrestled after his boxing career came to an end (and made more money than he ever did as a boxer, given he was controlled by mobsters when fighting), so put two and two together.

That's right, Im just on the last few pages of the book 'Primo, The Story Of Man Mountain Carnera' by Frederic Mullally.

How he was used and abussed is quite sickening, the book itself is quite interesting and seems well written, but it does leave me with a few questions that I intend to post on this Furom over the next few days.

Carnera and Tommy Burns are two of the most underrated heavyweight champions of all time. Carnera outjabbed the brilliant-boxing Tommy Loughran for 15 rounds.

Loughran was probably paid off. Carnera was awful.

stujones wrote:

bennie wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote: That's right, Im just on the last few pages of the book 'Primo, The Story Of Man Mountain Carnera' by Frederic Mullally.

How he was used and abussed is quite sickening, the book itself is quite interesting and seems well written, but it does leave me with a few questions that I intend to post on this Furom over the next few days.

Carnera and Tommy Burns are two of the most underrated heavyweight champions of all time. Carnera outjabbed the brilliant-boxing Tommy Loughran for 15 rounds.

Loughran was probably paid off. Carnera was awful.

It meant they had to pay off an awful lot of opponents then. He won 87 of 103 fights.

bennie wrote:

stujones wrote:

bennie wrote: Carnera and Tommy Burns are two of the most underrated heavyweight champions of all time. Carnera outjabbed the brilliant-boxing Tommy Loughran for 15 rounds.

Loughran was probably paid off. Carnera was awful.

It meant they had to pay off an awful lot of opponents then. He won 87 of 103 fights.

According to the Carnera book I'm reading Leon See years after the event admitted that about 60% of Carnera's fights up to 1931 were fixed. After that they were legit results.

That's stiil a lot of fighters to pay-off.