"Loi Had Everything: Former Welter Champ Close to Being The Perfect Fighter"

God knows what he was really like.There simply isn't enough footage.

It's safe to say he was damn good though.

 

To only knock out 26 of your 115 wins and only lose 3 means the man must have had some extraordinary boxing skills. I might have to look around for some footage.

 

Dulio Loi was the "Mystery Champion". I have alwys been a boxing fan, and I know very little about him except rather positive things. I know the ony negative about him was the lack of big ko power, but everything else is positive about him. He was perhaps avoided to the exclusion of him as a world class force in boxing. He was perhaps too good for his own good. Anyone who has 100 or more fights with just 3 losses without being stopped has to be very great, with Carlos Monzon as a good comparison. Loi was no doubt a very great fighter.

 

I've heard that he was a very slick pressure fighter, which is quite a combo. One that would certainly cause trouble for most any style.

 

Well he beat two great fighters like ortiz and eddie perkins, so that has to hold him in a high regard h2h wise.

 

And let´s not forget that he beat them when both of them where in their prime, Loi himself wasn´t, he wasn´t the same after his car accident in 1956, but even though he beat this 2 great fighters, knocked even both of these iron chinned fighters down, etc...

 

Footage of him is rare, I know it exists fights of him against Perkins, Ortiz, Famechon, Visintin, etc., but not easy to find.

 

Loi was ducked for a long time, that´s also the reason he stepped up to the 140 lbs division. He beat so many good fighters, not only Ortiz and Perkins, also Hansen, Visintin, Garbelli, Manca, Flanagan, etc. He was never knocked down, and he had no real weaknesses, he lacked a big punch, but even though he was able to score some nice KO´s over ranked opponents, knocked down many iron chinned fighters like Ortiz, Perkins, Galiana, etc. He was never knocked down or reportely hurt, was pysically very strong, I read from an interview from Perkins that he said that Duilio was the strongest fighter he ever faced, he bullied his opponents around the ring. He had an unbelievable stamina, high pace and workrate and gave his opponents never a break. In his 1st Ortiz- fight he was robbed, the decision was badly booed although the fight was in Ortiz backyard, in California. That´s why the rematches happened. Normally Loi won all 3 fights against a peak Ortiz, although he himself was a bit shot, that´s something I wouldn´t even dare that to a LW- Duran or so. To McGrain´s question, head-to-head I would favour him over most Lw´s and LWW´s, his combination of an iron chin, high workrate, great technique, stiff punches from different angles and pysically very strong. These combination of a fighter is very, very rare.