Inside Job
"Carnera's bout with Riccardo Bertazzolo on 30 August was his twenty-firts fight in the U. S., all of which he had won buy only three of which had not been fixed in advance...Bertazzolo, a proud and gutsy fighter, was refusing all proposals by his manager, one Aldo Linz, that he should take a dive in return for a percentage of the gate that would earn him $10,000 against Carnera's purse of $6000. When Linz failed to persuade him to accept even a points win by Carnera, Linz pulled a ruse out of his sordid bag of tricks that, had Carnera known about it, would surely have revolted him, hardened though he must have been by now to the iniquities of the fight game. Between the second and third rounds of the fight at Atlantic City, Linz used a concealed razor blade to make a cut just above Bertazzolo's left eyebrow, pasting over the slit immediately with vaseline. With the first blow that landed on the fighter's brow, the cut opened up, the blow flowed and the referee stopped the fight, awarding Carnera a technical knockout."(1) (2)
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(1)Linz own testimony , several years later, as quoted by Aldo Santini . Carnera, Milan 1984 p.53
(2) Primo. The Story of 'Man Mountain' Carnera World Heavyweight Champion by Fredric Mullally. London. Robson. 1991 . pp. 63