Five Greatest Fighters from Italy?

Ra's, Arredondo was born in Mexico and fought out of Mexico and the west coast of the U.S. Ncita was from South Africa and fought out of South Africa. He had a couple of fights in Italy (as many as he had in the U.S.), which really shouldn't qualify him. I am still curious however, of who Francisco Rossi is. I never heard of him and can't find him in boxrec. Can you elaborate on the era he fought in and against whom? Are you thinking of Paolo Rosi?

 

Olympic gold medallist and World champ Patrizio Oliva.

 

Hi Scar. He mend Gianfranco Rosi. Jnr middle that fought Honeyghan and Pyatt back in the day, I think.

 

Rocky Marciano
Primo Carnera
Nino Benvenuti
Jake LaMotta
Rocky Graziano

 

Okay, that makes perfect sense. Man, I just couldn't put 2 and 2 together on that one. Rosi is a sound choice, although I hated watching him back in the day. He could really put me to sleep. He was very strong but I recall always thinking, 'well, this is going to be 12 rounds of boredom.' I think the only time he surprised me was when he stopped Duane Thomas. I did not see that one coming. Thanks for the clarification, Eddie.

 

Born in Italy.
Joe Dundee
Carmelo Bossi
Donato Paduano
Franco Zurlo
Fortunato Manca
Sandro Lopopolo

 

Rocco Marchegiano



Edit: For anybody interested in Rocky's origins, this could be interesting:

https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/italian-genealogy/35133

 

Marciano was not Italian,he was born in usa

 

Goddamn. BE knows a bit!

Yeah, Hagler is the greatest Italian boxer He's got the little red passport

 

Uehi! Ma che cazzo dice questo? Sono geni Italiani, puri, quelli!

 

Johnny Dundee been mentioned yet? If not, then I will.

 

Some eyetie sounding guy called Chiariglione knocked Dempsey out, apparently

 

Born in Sinatra's home town Hoboken NJ.

 

I've been to two of the Canary Islands on vacation. Had a lot of fun both times although all the restaurants were English, German or French because of the tourist. Couldn't find any local food. I love Spanish jamon.....do the Canaries have their own jamon?