Miscellaneous Boxing Factoids

[The Old LefHook]

You can't always be right. Here is a quote I dug up from Carnera. I couldn't box. I was a hapless giant stumbling around the ring.

The man knew Primo Carnera.

[Dempsey-Louis]

You can't always be right. Here is a quote I dug up from Carnera. I couldn't box. I was a hapless giant stumbling around the ring.

The man knew Primo Carnera.

That is funny - must been after he quit and became a wrestler. - He was really down on the fight game aftering being used and robbed.

I disagree with him, LOL - he wasn't no where as bad as legend has it; he could box! -- Granted against Bear he looked terrible and that is what everyone remembers, (he would have been better served had there been a mandatory eight count; he jumped up too quickly after the first knockdown and it cost him.)

But I stand by MY factoid, the man was a much better boxer than he is remembered to be (or he even claims to be); look at some of his fights you will be surprised. - He was not an oaf, but he did come to hate the game that abused him.

Later he became a "champion" wrestler and made some good money doing it, which he deserved; his life did have a happy ending.

He did hit like a cream-puff, though.

[The Old LefHook]

So you figure big Primo had better skills than Tony Joshua at this point, but also carried less of a punch?

[Dempsey-Louis]

So you figure big Primo had better skills than Tony Joshua at this point, but also carried less of a punch?

LOL - For whom are you using me to pick a fight with?

[The Old LefHook]

Perhaps Primo's main problem was that he did not do much at all while inside the ring. Some fighters are known for indifference in the ring. I can think of Ray Mercer and Mike Weaver as previous examples, Weaver being the better example of that trait. But even he rose up to mysteriously KO Tate in the last moments of the 15th round in one of the most boring, one-sided championship fights in history where I don't think he had landed a punch before the one producing the KO.

[The Old LefHook]

Factoid or Fact: If you have sex the night before a fight you are probably going to lose. That is one of the worst things a boxer can do.

[Anthony342]

Factoid or Fact: If you have sex the night before a fight you are probably going to lose. That is one of the worst things a boxer can do.

Or as Mickey put it in the original Rocky "Women weaken legs."

[QueensburyRules]

Or as Mickey put it in the original Rocky "Women weaken legs."

--- the reason Stallone needed steroids and hgh.

Manny holds the record for the most Ring p4pers fought, beat, knocked out, as well as the record being continually being rated in ring p4p rankings. Nobody even close.

Wlad holds the record for the most southpaw defenses of his title, nobody even close...

[Dempsey-Louis]

[QueensburyRules]

--- Ye ol' saw prohibiting sex while a fighter is in training is most likely rooted in the greater worry of distractions women typically bring to a fighter, sometimes fatal as Stanley Ketchell found out in his last gasp on this earth.

This Thai has two names typical in his culture, Rungvisai, aka the superfly destroying Ring P4p #1 Roman Gonzalez, is currently more closely related to a steaming bowl of noodles because his girl left him.

Tyson had the misfortune of Givens and her witchy mum that with an able assist by DKing left him psychotic. Dempsey married an actress and moved to Hollywood for a new career.

Harry Greb reportedly invited a bevy of beauties in his dressing room on occasion, and he sorta did ok...