CARNERA'S COMEBACK UNLIKELY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 14

CARNERA'S COMEBACK UNLIKELY

london writer s opinion I have told how it has been planned to bring the towering Italian heavyvvcight boxer, Primo Carnera, back into the ring by a young London promoter who found him in Venice (writes B. Benhison). For good or for ill, the fight has been banned by the Boxing Board of ControJ, and, though the decision has been received with defiance, I do not think it will take place. For the foreign boxer must receive a permit, and this is scarcely likely to bfe glveh by the Home Ofiice v/ithout the approval of the board. The board's objection to Carnera is 011 medical grounds. They have pointed out that when the Italian was last in the ring -in America he was so severely beaten that he Sliffered partial paralysis, and he was advised not to box again if he valued his life. "Nothing has happened to change that position," said the board. "We have nothing else against Carnera, but if he is to come back, it should be in his Owii country or America." Carnera himself declares that he is again thoroughly fit, and the promoter vows that he will go on with his plans to match him against a British opponent. "The board can't stop me," he said, "Other boxers have been badly beaten, and have been given another chance. 'The board did not object to' Max Baer and King Levinsky, and they have sanctloned another liight for Walter Neusel, for which he is to feceive £3200. It is unfalr to put the bar up hgaifist Carnera." But I shall be sUrprised if the position changes. After all, it is the duty of the board to protect public interests and there is nothing unreasonable in the suggestion that Carnera should ijUstify himself at home before being brought to London. About 9. year ago ■b? gtmoimced- rettremenL