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Giovanni " Nino " Benvenuti (born 26 April 1938) is an Italian former professional boxer and actor. He held world titles in two weight classes, having held the undisputed super-welterweight championship from June 1965 to June 1966 and the undisputed middleweight championship twice, from April to September 1967, and from March 1968 to November ...
Benvenuti's manager throws in towel. Benvenuti was knocked down once in the 2nd and again in the 3rd. The towel was thrown in after he rose from the 2nd knockdown.
Nino Benvenuti is an Italian professional boxer, Olympic welterweight and world middleweight champion. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Benvenuti won the Olympic welterweight title in 1960. He turned professional the following year and won his first 65 matches and the Italian.
May 21, 2022 · He currently ranks No.32 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time. In 1968, Benvenuti was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2011, The Ring magazine...
Defeated Griffith by a unanimous decision to regain the world middleweight title in 1968 and was named The Ring Fighter of the Year. Acted in the 1969 western Alive and Preferably Dead. Lost the world middleweight title to Carlos Monzon by a twelfth-round TKO in 1970.
When Nino Benvenuti, an elongated middleweight who looks a bit like a muscular Beatle, won the middleweight championship of the world by drubbing stubby Emile Griffith in Madison Square Garden...
NINO BENVENUTI was an Italian sports legend before his first pro fight. He won European junior middleweight amateur titles in 1957 and 1959 and captured a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
The fighters exchanged early knockdowns but Benvenuti, at his best, took advantage of his size and reach advantages to win a clear unanimous decision to become champion of the world and a hero in Italy in the 1967 Ring Fight of the Year.
A handsome and stylish boxer, Nino Benvenuti became a national hero in 1960 when he won the Olympic welterweight title at Roma. His amateur record was nearly perfect, with just one loss in 120 matches, claiming five Italian and two European titles besides the Olympic crown.
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