Nino Benvenuti vs Fraser Scott

What do you need it for?

 

Oddly enough, I was watching a very old, and in bad condition film of Carlos Monzon vs what looked like Fraser Scott (they met in a non title bout).....and Fraser wasn't doing very well to say the least, but like I say, the vid was in pretty bad shape...some kind of Argentine archive...it then jumped to Monzon vs Bogs abruptly.

 

Well, best of luck to you in your quest of finding this fight on film,...I remember reading about Fraser Scott and his fight with Benvenuti...sort of an off night for the sometimes erratic Nino. The Italian usually redeemed himself in style in the rematches.

 

I remember the NWest boxing review-that along with Flash Gordon and Canada's ruckmaker First Round Boxing were newsletters that I always read.Good luck on your quest and thanks for the memories!

 

All I will say about it is that when a fighter gets DQd for ducking punches you know its home cooking. At this point in his career Nino was not Nino and was relying on homecooking to win fights. Ask Doyle Baird.

 

It was more like the second Doyle Baird fight in which the referee stopped the fight for no reason at all, or rather because it was in Italy and Benvenuti was Italian.

Scott may not have won against Benvenuti, who will ever know, but he shouldnt have been stopped. Weakest stoppage Ive ever seen.

 

I can't recall for the life of me what Scott's sin was that caused a DQ in a title bout.

 

He was DQd by the ref for "ducking his head too low", which A. he wasnt doing and B. wasnt a violation of the rules governing the bout. The referee "incorrectly" applied a rule used in amateur boxing and in some European bouts to warn and then DQ Scott. However, as I said those rules werent governing this bout so he was wrong anyway. In reality Scott was slipping and ducking Benvenuti's punches. Apparently making the hometown boy miss was a no no.

 

BSiebol- Sounds like an exciting work. When do you expect it to come out? Are you including Alaska, also?

 

Well, that sort of thing is shameful, to say the very least,...and the thing about it is that on most occasions, Ninoacquitted himself very well, and maybe the Italian officials felt somewhat skittish about their hometown hero, the dashing Sr. Benvenuti...like he was getting inconsistant on them all of a sudden or something...and the same thing happened in with Monzon vs Denny Moyer...but really, the great Monzon really never had any need for protective treatment like that. It's the sort of thing that a visiting challenger gets the heebie-jeebies about, unfortunately,...like when Saoul Mamby was robbed of winning the light welter title in Thailand vs Muangsurin...a classic robbery, so when he got another chance, this time vs Sang Hyun-Kim, this time in Korea, he took all that partisan **** out of the hands of the ever-protective officials there by uncharacteristically going for the the kill...the ko (tko)...and persevered.