H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Primo Carnera
Heavyweight · Italy
Primo Carnera ranks #375 in the H&G All-Time Index at Heavyweight, with a 76.77 All-Time Index score and a 88-14-0 professional record. His career span on this page is 1928-1946.
- All-time rank
- #375
- H&G All-Time Index
- 76.770-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 88-14-0Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1928-1946
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Primo Carnera's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 1,743 |
| 1929 | 1,792 |
| 1930 | 1,813 |
| 1931 | 1,817 |
| 1932 | 1,819 |
| 1933 | 1,814 |
| 1934 | 1,778 |
| 1935 | 1,745 |
| 1936 | 1,686 |
| 1945 | 1,398 |
| 1946 | 1,391 |
Why this ranking
Primo Carnera ranks #375 with a 76.77 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Tommy Loughran in 1934, who reached a 1,937 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Young Stribling once, then lost to him in a later fight. The strongest model lifts are major title-control signal (above the typical top-1000 fighter) and dominance over contemporaries (above the typical top-1000 fighter). Peak-form Elo is 1,819 (±146), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
Compare and explore
Put Primo Carnera next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Primo Carnera actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Joe Louis#4 · Index 97 · 1935
- Tommy Loughran#58 · Index 88 · 1934
- Young Stribling#136 · Index 82 · 1929
- Jack Sharkey#408 · Index 76 · 1931, 1933
- Max Baer#573 · Index 74 · 1934
- Ernie Schaaf#951 · Index 71 · 1933
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Billy Conn#52 · Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (1934-1946)
- John Henry Lewis#105 · Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1931-1939)
- Jimmy Bivins#258 · Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1940-1946)
- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (1934-1946)
- Max Schmeling#299 · Heavyweight · 19 overlapping years (1928-1946)
- Melio Bettina#368 · Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (1934-1946)
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- Jersey Joe Walcott#503 · Heavyweight · 17 overlapping years (1930-1946)
- Bob Pastor#539 · Heavyweight · 8 overlapping years (1935-1942)
- Harry Matthews#632 · Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1938-1946)
- Tiger Jack Fox#902 · Heavyweight · 12 overlapping years (1935-1946)
- Al McCoy#942 · Heavyweight · 12 overlapping years (1931-1942)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 70 bouts we hold full data for from 1928 to 1946, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,819 (peak dated 1932-02-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±146 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.