'Hurricane' Carter

[TheGreatA]

Impressive display of punching power.

[LondonRingRules]

Impressive display of punching power.

** Brilliantly efficient and compact punching, one of the best briefest displays ever.

Fernandez was one of the big bulls of the era and a major upgrade in Carter's comp. He got chopped down after barely clearing the starting gate.

Carter threw away a fine career. Interesting how this intimidator would only look down at his shoes in the intros. Heard so many stories about Carter hanging out in bars in sleeveless shirts staring down unwary patrons with his mere presence.

Muchos garcias mi amigo.

[Smokin'J]

The movie where Carter is played by Denzel was which made me first research Carter, great great fighter.

[jmc617]

[TheGreatA]

I believe it was you who posted the Hurricane Carter-Florentino Fernandez video on youtube. Thanks for uploading some great boxing footage.

[BennyST]

Similar to his blow out of Griffith. He did have an amazing left hook. One of the best, short seen I think.

[MarkScott]

Great clip, thanks.

[QueensburyRules]

** Brilliantly efficient and compact punching, one of the best briefest displays ever.

Fernandez was one of the big bulls of the era and a major upgrade in Carter's comp. He got chopped down after barely clearing the starting gate.

Carter threw away a fine career. Interesting how this intimidator would only look down at his shoes in the intros. Heard so many stories about Carter hanging out in bars in sleeveless shirts staring down unwary patrons with his mere presence.

Muchos garcias mi amigo.

- - Dead links from the live links past for Shoulder who thinks the Internet immaculate.

Big shout for The Great A who was #1 in youtube links, most sadly blown up in the youtube purge.

[Willie Pep 229]

Similar to his blow out of Griffith. He did have an amazing left hook. One of the best, short seen I think.

Didn't Truman Capote once comment about 'On the Road: "This isn't writing, it's just typing."

Oh! I am giving a dead man from 2009 a hard time about his signature.

[The Old LefHook]

He had a great punch and an amazing set of traps. Not enough to make you great. Of course he was an unfinished product, whereas Joey was complete. Carter had no clue how to cut the ring off and merely followed opponents around. He also did not know how to feint. The movie was a fake that did nothing but play the race card all night long and vilify the wrong person. Shortly after Carter was released he wailed the tar out of his new WOKE blond wife who had helped gain release. He beat up her son as well. The fake movie had Carter nearly killing Joey in the ring of what was a close fight. Joey sued the producer and won an undisclosed sum easily.

Joey won the fight with Carter because of his defense and body punching, though the official scores were wider than they should have been. I realize that folks who think Carter won are ignoring all the punches he missed. The black and white quality was OK but not particularly clear, so may punches which looked like they landed, did not. You can tell by how many times the referee told you a punch of Carter's missed or was caught on the elbows, when you had thought it might have landed, because of weak video quality. Given time, if he had learned to feint and cut the ring off, Carter might have developed into a champ or better. In the meantime Joey was feinting him goofy with every feint from the toes to the head. However, it probably only required a few more basics for Carter to beat him handily.