There are so many great Italian boxers it's so hard to say who is the greatest. I'll have to get back to this. This interests me as well because I am from Italian descent as well.
Would've never figured. Although the basis of your ethnicity shouldn't tint your vision, it often let's you see the best out of men (And fighters). Pep is my pick.
Willie Pep was Sicilian, and there were a few others from sicily, They call Marciano Napolitan but he was from a town in between Rome and Naples I think I read
dempsey will have had some italian blood if you delved deep enough.he had everything else. irish,scots,cherokee indian,,wigan,jewish all went into the dempsey melting pot.