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| PRIMO "DA PREEM" CARNERA was discovered doing a strongman act for a small French circus. He was "developed" into a boxer and brought over to the U.S. where he was promoted like a sort of circus giant / boxer although he stood only 6'6". It is generally agreed his fights were phony, his manager |
| George Moore and Fred Howe |
| (left) "TED EVANS of Wren Avenue, Ashford, Middlesex England was 21 when this was taken in 1946. Being 7'7" tall, weighing 22 stone. He took up boxing because he was too big to get other jobs. He had grown 4 inches in a year from fingertip to fingertip. Shown here with his manager Mickey Wood, ex-lightweight of England and Ben Valentine of Fiji Islands a light-heavyweight." |
| "ME AND HIM" |
| The Carlson Sisters, Flo & Dottie |
| The famous twins MIKE & IKE |
| These two were billed as Gen. Tom Thumb and Major Mite |
| Emil and Herbert Williams as "Moe and Joe" |
| Benjamin Ash and "Zip" Johnson |
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| SIDESHOW PUGILISTS |
| By 1882 boxing had become one of the most popular sports in the free world so it's no wonder that sideshow performers and their promoters got in on the act. But the closest thing that the sideshow world came to a true contender was Charley Freeman, the "American Giant". Some say he was the first American oddity to perform in Europe and the first to lay claim (unoficially) to the World's Heavyweight Title. |
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| (left) Another pair of boxing fat girls - Alice and Vera |
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| being a sort of gangster with ties to the underworld. It is not clear if Primo was in on it all but I think probably not as he was cheated out of large chunks of his earnings. His world as a pro boxer fell apart when he met up with Max Baer in 1934. Though he was knocked down 13 times, it is to his credit he lasted eleven rounds. |
| The famous Magri brothers put on an exhibition in Scotland |
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