Can Anyone Name What Among Modern Boxers Was Unique About Nino Benvenuti?

Hmm... I don't know, what you have in mind. It could be any number of things.

But I'll take a guess: He's the only Olympic champion, who lost his pro world title to someone, he had defeated in the Olympics?

 

Not the answer but I like what a young Cassius Clay said to him in Rome at the 1960 Olympics: "You the best white fighter in the world"!

 

He said that with Ingo and Fullmer still active?

 

I’ll take a guess and suggest that Benvenuti was the only Professional World Middleweight Champion to have won an Olympic Boxing Welterweight Gold Medal.

 

No clue, in context of Benvenuti

 

Fought without a mouthpiece until he came to the US to fight Griffith

 

I didn't know that… good question!

 

Thanks for this McVey..I always think that I know quite a bit about 60's and 70's middleweights (my favorite era & division)....but this I did not know. More threads like this would be appreciated if you are ever again so inclined.

 

Good thing he had that mouthpiece going when he fought Griffith

 

I’d have got there eventually, once I was out of the achievement train of thought... ...but shows me what I’ve come to take for granted.