page_title: Art Lasky
section_title: Meeting Primo Carnera and Joe Sekyra, 1932
hierarchical_section_title: Art Lasky / Professional career / Meeting Primo Carnera and Joe Sekyra, 1932
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Foto di Primo Carnera
context_page_description: Arthur Lakofsky, also known as Art Lasky, was a heavyweight professional boxer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
context_section_description: Future World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera defeated Lasky in a ten-round newspaper decision in St. Paul on September 1, 1932.  The loss appeared to do nothing to hamper Lasky's career but it was a brutal battle, as were many of Lasky's fights. In an odd spectacle of a fight, Lasky, at 188, was outweighed 78 pounds by the Italian giant, though Carnera had only a one-inch height advantage at 6' 5".  The fight did not feature continuous blows by either boxer until the eighth round, and the decision was a close one according to one reporter.  In the final rounds, the Italian giant's strength proved too great for Lasky.
  Lasky became the first opponent to knock out Joe Sekyra in a brutal battle at the Auditorium in Minneapolis on November 29, 1932.  The knockout, occurring one minute into the seventh round, came after Lasky's strong right to the chin and two powerful hooks to the jaw of his opponent. Earlier in the bout, Seykra reached Lasky with strong blows to the body and chin, but Lasky was able to fight on. The bout featured blows from both boxers landing almost continuously from the opening bell.  Jack Blackburn, an exceptional Black lightweight, trained and seconded Lasky for the bout.  Lasky started a strong offensive attack in the second round, and in the third, Sekyra retaliated with strong blows to the chin.  Lasky took the fourth round with lighting lefts from a distance, and an occasional right to the chin. On the advise of Blackburn, he opened the sixth with a rapid two-handed attack that rocked his opponent who managed to stay on his feet.  Showing determination, though exhausted, Seykra attempted a  comeback by the end of the round.  Pushing his advantage in the seventh, Lasky doubled his efforts and achieved the knock out. The win was one of the most convincing of his career, coming against a recognized heavyweight contender.
  Lasky immediately embarked on a six fight winning streak, including a fifth-round knockout of Black heavyweight Tiger Jack Fox, a  boxer with a 50-5 record, at Chicago Stadium in Illinois.  He achieved the fifth-round knockout with a hard right to the jaw of the black boxer.  Fox attempted to rise at the count of nine, but fell to his feet. His win over the well known opponent spotlighted Lasky as a fighter to watch.
  On March 31, 1933, in his first appearance at Madison Square Garden, the shrine of East coast boxing, Lasky pounded out an eight-round points decision against Hans Birkle, a competent 6' 1" German-born heavyweight. The bout was a semi-final and drew a sizable crowd of 9,000. Lasky put reach advantage and speed to good use against his opponent.
caption: Primo Carnera
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