"since his arrival in the u. s., backed by a group of prosperous but shady entrepreneurs, carnera's career has been less glorious than fantastic... suspicion concerning the monster's abilities became almost universal when another adversary, bombo chevalier, stated that one of his own seconds had threatened to kill him unless he lost to carnera. against the huge, lazy, amiable negro george godfrey (249 lb.), he won on a foul. but only one of 33 u. s. opponents has defeated monster carnera—fat, slovenly jim maloney, whom sharkey beat five years ago. in a return fight, at miami last march, carnera managed to outpoint maloney."