Did Primo Carnera suffer from acromegaly?

[Vae Victis]

Does not appear this was the reality however. Willard is certainly taller.

Yes, Willard is taller; however, Carnera is the bigger, stronger man. Check the Internet, Google Image, for Carnera photos. Look at him in any number of photos (with men of a variety of heights). He's a legit 6'5.5" tall with an 85 inch reach, and his bone structure is gigantic. Then do the same for Willard. Willard was the 6'6.5" tall lanky man (narrow shoulders and wide hips) with an 83 inch reach. Willard was supposed to be very strong too, I'm not saying he wasn't. But he certainly wasn't the larger more developed man. Taller he was, but not larger. Stripped to the waist and standing next to Carnera (prime to prime), Willard would look like the oversized neighbor who'd help move your furniture. Carnera would look like the guy who'd crush your bones to make his bread.

[QueensburyRules]

--- All this bone crushing negativism in multiple threads ignores Australopithecus Africanus used to split skulls and big bones of his own kind to slurp the brains and marrow...used to be legal a million or so years ago.

From that early beginning to free range chicken and organic skittles, who'd have thunk it?

[Anthony342]

Yes, Willard is taller; however, Carnera is the bigger, stronger man. Check the Internet, Google Image, for Carnera photos. Look at him in any number of photos (with men of a variety of heights). He's a legit 6'5.5" tall with an 85 inch reach, and his bone structure is gigantic. Then do the same for Willard. Willard was the 6'6.5" tall lanky man (narrow shoulders and wide hips) with an 83 inch reach. Willard was supposed to be very strong too, I'm not saying he wasn't. But he certainly wasn't the larger more developed man. Taller he was, but not larger. Stripped to the waist and standing next to Carnera (prime to prime), Willard would look like the oversized neighbor who'd help move your furniture. Carnera would look like the guy who'd crush your bones to make his bread.

Interesting screen name. Are you a student of Latin, a fan of the Legacy of Kain series or a little of both?

[Vae Victis]

Interesting screen name. Are you a student of Latin, a fan of the Legacy of Kain series or a little of both?

My wife took Latin in high school and really picked up a lot, so throughout our marriage, I've been trying to stump her with bits of Latin (I read quite a bit, and as such I encounter Latin often enough). It's amazing just how good an education she got in a small farming community school.

[Anthony342]

My wife took Latin in high school and really picked up a lot, so throughout our marriage, I've been trying to stump her with bits of Latin (I read quite a bit, and as such I encounter Latin often enough). It's amazing just how good an education she got in a small farming community school.

So you're not a gamer at all? Well you should be, or at least try that series, you'd love those games, they have a real medieval fantasy setting and they say that phrase quite a lot when you vanquish a foe in battle. That is, whenever you get to play as Kane rather than Raziel anyway.

[OctoberRed]

So you're not a gamer at all? Well you should be, or at least try that series, you'd love those games, they have a real medieval fantasy setting and they say that phrase quite a lot when you vanquish a foe in battle. That is, whenever you get to play as Kane rather than Raziel anyway.

Like Game of Thrones?

[DreamFighter]

he didnt have it.

[OctoberRed]

he didnt have it.

Valuev sure looks like it.

[DreamFighter]

Valuev sure looks like it.

he sure does.

poor guy wont be with us for long.

Like the giant guy from game of thrones, funnily enough.

[Vae Victis]

So you're not a gamer at all? Well you should be, or at least try that series, you'd love those games, they have a real medieval fantasy setting and they say that phrase quite a lot when you vanquish a foe in battle. That is, whenever you get to play as Kane rather than Raziel anyway.

I appreciate your advice about gaming, but for the last fifteen years I've had too many family related crises for any dedication to gaming. I'm going on seventy, and any free time I get I spend it on exercise: strength, fitness, coordination, timing and such. I like being able to do now what I could do when I was a kid, and I'll continue to focus on that (if I possibly can) for the remainder of my life.