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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 1970.
Nino Benvenuti (born April 26, 1938, Trieste, Italy) 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.
May 21, 2022 · In 2011, The Ring magazine ranked him as seventh on their list of the "10 best middleweight title holders of the last 50 years." #NinoBenvenutiknockouts #NinoBenvenutiHighlights # ...
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.
Won the Val Barker Trophy as the best boxer of the Olympic Games. Professional Career. Stopped Tommaso Truppi in eleven rounds to win the vacant Italian middleweight title in 1963. Stopped Sandro Mazzinghi in the six rounds to win the world light middleweight title in 1965.
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. All of Benvenuti's early fights took place in Italy.
Jun 7, 2023 · Nino Benvenuti was a legendary boxer who dominated the boxing world for more than 10 years. During his professional career, he fought 90 fights, out of which he won 82 and lost 7, and drew once. He won 35 fights via knockout, including 3 title-fight KO wins.
