'Hurricane' Carter

[Ivich]

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.

I think he is overated,good puncher ,but lost to too many guys to be considered a title holder -in -waiting.I believe he was also a nasty piece of work.

[Willie Pep 229]

I disagree that he was an unfinished product. I think he reached his peak and fell short and then he nosed dived into self destruction.

The street life didn't seduce him out of a career he ended up there because he had no where else to go.

That man was profoundly disliked by the people unfortunate enough to live around him, i.e. Paterson, NJ

One friend told me, in the last year, the conversation at church every Sunday morning was "Who did Carter beat up last night."

He stalked the night clubs drunk and high, hitting on other guys' girls and then trashing them when they objected.

Most were happy when he was gone. There was even very little reaction several years later when he lost his retrial.

[QueensburyRules]

- - Dylan is supposed to have disavowed his previous works concerning Carter when it became painfully apparent they were a busted sham.

Boxing referee Ron Lipton was a regular sparring partner back then gave us an idea of Carter's Jeckel and Hyde personality before he was released. He was a witness in the prosecution and later release of Carter who seems to have died a slow, embittered death after release.