Second Best Italian Boxer of All Time

I have to say the second because I guess everyone will say Benvenuti is the GOAT Italian.

The run for the second best is good though, take a look at this:

Bruno Arcari
Salvatore Burruni
Mario D'Agata
Duilio Loi


Carnera was the HW champion of the world when there was only one belt... but I guess no one will pick him, right ??

 

Funny thing that italian-americans heavily outnumber actual italians as far as great boxers go... I mean, Italy has 60 million people !
Not the same happens in Mexico for example....

 

You´re right as far as where he was born, he was born in Italy so he is italian... he is naturatlized as a american so by law he loses his italian nationality.
I guess he is american in the end though, and even if we consider him italian, which would be fair, was he better than Benevenuti though ?

 

Yeah, he is in the discussion. I think I would go with:

Benvenuti
Arcari
Burruni
Antuofermo

Again, Dundee is listed as an american fighter as far as Boxrec goes..... even if he was born in Italy (even though he was born in Sicily actually, which back then, you know, it was complicated, I doubt very much Dundee considered himself italian as I know for a fact being from italian ancestry myself on both sides that the southerners in those days did not understand this Italy thing, they were sicilians, calabrians, napolitani and so on.. not italians)

Of course guys like Pep, LaMotta, Giardello, Marciano don't qualify, they were as american as any american that ever lived. Otherwise this gets crazy, Eder Jofre was from french ancestry, Bonavena was from italian, Pascual Perez was from spanish... so you see where I'm going ?

 

Seems unfair that Duilio Loi is in the Hall of Fame and Bruno Arcari isn´t.
From what I read on italian websites Arcari does seem to be rated as the guy next to Benvenuti as the biggest italian 'pugile'.