Giovanni "Nino" Benvenuti

welter to Rome 1960 Been born to Trieste the 26 you open them 1938. For tito conquered them and unquestionable carisma the technical one, he is probably the greatest Italian champion than all the times. Number a national one in ` the 56 (from welter, like to Giochi of Rome), and in ` the 57-58-59-60 (from superwelter), European champion amateurs in ` the 57 and ` the 59, has gained all the 29 encounter disputed in blue mesh. From professional, Italian champion of the means in the ` has graduated itself 63, European in ` the 65: in this same year the title world-wide it of the superwelter has conquered (striking Sandro Mazzinghi). And in 1967, with the historical challenge with Emile Griffith, it landed to the World-wide one of the means, stopped (after the momentary return of Griffith) until November 1970 when it was defeated from Carlos Monzon.