Fixed Fights?

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Rampant? That's awfully strong. Not even Barney Nagler, the man who best covered that era in boxing and decried the roles of Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo etc.

There have likely been occasionally fixed fights as long as there have been fights.

I'd love to know what evidence you have for the Carnera-Sharkey fight as the Boston Gob denied it until his dying day and I've never gotten a good "fix" on that one.

Boxing is the easiest game in the world to fix. Why? It only takes the agreement of one guy.

I'd be shocked if their wasn't occasionally a fixed fight today.

I think you're wrong about the reasons it might be harder today though. There are fewer fights on TV than there were 50 years ago for example. I think the issue is being able to make money on a fix. Seems to me trying to make a score in Vegas is asking to get caught. 50 years ago EVERYONE followed the fights and then so did all the bookies. So one could get bets down on fights easily. With boxing so shrunken today I wonder how many bookies offer odds on anything but superfights.