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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 was an Italian boxer who held the WBA and WBC middleweight titles from 1967 to 1968. He fought 90 bouts, winning 71 and losing 17, with 42 KOs. See his full record, stats, and highlights on BoxRec.
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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.
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Jul 11, 2019 · One of the best single punch finishes in a World title fight ever! Established World Middleweight Champion, Nino Benvenuti of Italy, takes on the challenger...
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Nov 14, 2020 · 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.
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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.
