Benvenuti, Nino

Benvenuti, Nino

▪ Italian boxer
byname of  Giovanni Benvenuti 
born April 26, 1938, Trieste, Italy

      Italian professional boxer, Olympic welterweight and world middleweight champion.

      Benvenuti won the Olympic (Olympic Games) welterweight title in 1960. He turned professional the following year and won his first 65 matches and the Italian middleweight championship. In 1965 he claimed both the world junior-middleweight title and the European middleweight title. The next year he boxed outside Italy for the first time, retaining his European title in a bout in Berlin but losing his world junior-middleweight title to Ki-Soo Kim in a 15-round decision in Seoul, South Korea.

      Benvenuti went to the United States in 1967 and took the world middleweight title on April 17 by defeating Emile Griffith (Griffith, Emile) in a 15-round decision. They met again on September 28, 1967, and in the rematch Griffith regained the title by prevailing in a 15-round decision. On March 4, 1968, they fought a third time, and Benvenuti took the title back by winning a 15-round decision. Benvenuti then successfully defended his championship by outpointing Don Fullmer in 15 rounds on December 14, 1968. He made two more successful defenses in 1969, winning on the 7th-round disqualification of Fraser Scott on October 4 and knocking out Luis Rodriguez in the 11th round on November 22.

      After being knocked out in the eighth round of a nontitle fight with Tom Bethea, Benvenuti defended his title in a rematch against Bethea. The May 23, 1970, match also ended in an eighth-round knockout, but this time Benvenuti was the winner. In his next title defense, Benvenuti lost the championship when he was knocked out by Carlos Monzón (Monzon, Carlos) in the 12th round of their November 7, 1970, match. Benvenuti tried to win back his title on May 8, 1971, but Monzón knocked him out in the third round. Benvenuti ended his career following that match with 82 victories (35 by knockout), 7 losses, and 1 draw. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992.

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