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Primo Carnera

1906 - 1967

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Primo Carnera (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpriːmo karˈnɛːra]; 26 October 1906 – 29 June 1967), nicknamed the Ambling Alp, was an Italian professional boxer and wrestler who reigned as the boxing World Heavyweight Champion from 29 June 1933 to 14 June 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Primo Carnera has received more than 1,340,465 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Primo Carnera is the 22nd most popular boxer (down from 13th in 2019), the 1,562nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,175th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Boxer.

Primo Carnera was most famous for being the first Italian heavyweight champion of the world.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Primo Carnera ranks 22 out of 326Before him are Floyd Patterson, Carlos Monzón, Vitali Klitschko, Teófilo Stevenson, Ingemar Johansson, and Roberto Durán. After him are Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Rubin Carter, Trevor Berbick, Nino Benvenuti, and Sugar Ray Leonard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Primo Carnera ranks 86Before him are Markos Vafeiadis, Hans Aumeier, George Wald, Horst Schumann, Rezső Kasztner, and Luis Federico Leloir. After him are Jacques Becker, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Heinrich Schwarz, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Carol Reed, and Joaquín Balaguer. Among people deceased in 1967, Primo Carnera ranks 67Before him are Paul Muni, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Tom Simpson, Günther Blumentritt, Dorothy Parker, and Woody Guthrie. After him are Géza Lakatos, Roger B. Chaffee, Basil Rathbone, George Kelly, Marcel Aymé, and Walter A. Shewhart.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Primo Carnera ranks 1,562 out of 4,668Before him are Rita Pavone (1945), Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626), Cesare Ripa (1555), Giorgio Basta (1550), and Chiara Lubich (1920). After him are Accursius (1182), Francesco del Cossa (1436), Carlo Blasis (1797), Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770), Myia (-600), and Jacopo Amigoni (1682).

Among BOXERS In Italy

Among boxers born in Italy, Primo Carnera ranks 1After him are Piero Toscani (1904), Carmelo Bossi (1939), Carlo Orlandi (1910), Fernando Atzori (1942), Aureliano Bolognesi (1930), Sandro Lopopolo (1939), Arturo Gatti (1972), Francesco Damiani (1958), Franco De Piccoli (1937), Cosimo Pinto (1943), and Spartaco Bandinelli (1921).