Ive heard Max Baer adopted some unusual training methods for the Carnera bout ?
Sportswriter Harry Grayson reported the following on May 9, 1934 as Max trained to fight Primo Carnera for the Heavyweight title. Baer Trains Seriously “Baer labors like a galley slave once he gets around to it. He trained like a fighter of the old school in preparing for Schmeling, working too hard, if anything. He relishes boxing with capbable partners. I’ll never forget Mike Cantwell, the old-timer who passes for his trainer, standing over him as he lay flat on his back, and firing a heavy medicine ball at his midriff. That went on for days over the protests of numerous well wishers who realized that the practice could result in nothing more than tearing the curly-haired Californian apart. But Baer has his own ideas in regard to training. When he first entered the Garden four years ago to meet the late Ernie Schaaf, he was found bumping his noggin against a stem pipe in the dressing room. “How’s Schaaf going to hurt me after this ?” he beamed. And because Carnera stepped on Tommy Lo
Sportswriter Harry Grayson reported the following on May 9, 1934 as Max trained to fight Primo Carnera for the Heavyweight title. Baer Trains Seriously “Baer labors like a galley slave once he gets around to it. He trained like a fighter of the old school in preparing for Schmeling, working too hard, if anything. He relishes boxing with capbable partners. I’ll never forget Mike Cantwell, the old-timer who passes for his trainer, standing over him as he lay flat on his back, and firing a heavy medicine ball at his midriff. That went on for days over the protests of numerous well wishers who realized that the practice could result in nothing more than tearing the curly-haired Californian apart. But Baer has his own ideas in regard to training. When he first entered the Garden four years ago to meet the late Ernie Schaaf, he was found bumping his noggin against a stem pipe in the dressing room. “How’s Schaaf going to hurt me after this ?” he beamed. And because Carnera stepped on Tommy Lo
