For some reason Benvenuti has slipped under my radar, and I am hoping to watch and learn some more about him during the next month or so...so help me get started. What are his best fights (I have really only seen monzon???) that I need to check out... how would you describe his style, who might you compare him to (I thought I saw a little DLH?) Any cool stories about him??? How would you rank him at Jr. middle...or middle??? Anything else you might feel like adding! Thanks in advance.
I don't remember where I heard out. Someone like Senya might be able to verify. As for the other: you don't divert Pittsburgh. Like a tsunami you can only get out of its way.
I heard he drank wine in training, but he's european. They brush their teeth with wine so it's not really that big a deal. ..................And that is what I know of Nino Benvenuti.
Standup classical European style fighter with a bit of an edge. He wasn't above the rough stuff. I always thought Monzon out-Benvenuti'd him. Very good fighter as evidenced buy his fights with Emile Griffith. Luis Manuel Rodriguez was schooling him a tad with his superior mobillity but Benvenuti pulled it out with a bomb. That's about as far as I can go with him because he's just not one of the guys I enjoy studying. Doesn't have that wow factor.
Nino Benvenuti after boxing took up acting, opened up a high class restaurant and became a successful businessman but in 1995 Nino turned his back on the material world and went to India to Join Mother Teresas hospice. Catholic Benvenuti asked boxing rival Emile Griffith to be Godfather to his son and also helped out the late Carlos Monzon financially during Monzons legal troubles. It Is believed that Nino never wore a gumshield for the first FIFTY fights of his pro boxing career. Still the Greatest Italian boxer of all time and recently was voted number 63 in Boxing News 100 greatest fighters of all time
a good write up on Nino http://www.fightsaga.com/tidbits/item/2970-Nino-Benvenuti-A-Different-Mold a good interview with Nino http://boxingnewsmagazine.com/view-Article.asp?ArticleID=265 both in English no need to translate
