Second Best Italian Boxer of All Time

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  1. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If being born in Italy to Italian parents determines a fighter as Italian, then Nino Benvenuti is the 2nd greatest Italian boxer of all time imo, just edging out Johnny Dundee, with YCIII a clear #1 imo.

    If based on nationality as defined by Wiki, then Loi just edges out Burruni for 2nd spot, imo, with Benvenuti the greatest.
     
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  2. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    The great Rocky Mattioli warrants a mention at least. :D Born in Italy, emigrated to Australia at age 6. Fought as an Italian-Aussie, oi, oi, oi! Post retirement, he settled in Milan.
     
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  3. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It is not defined by wiki though, it was propably what it was writtten in his ID. By law (at least in many places) you can't have two nationalities, once you get naturalized as being of a certain nationality you end up losing the previous one.
    Anyway, I guess this is getting too technical and annoying, I know what you meant.

    Btw, talking about this, Sumbu Kalambay was born in Congo but he was naturalized italian.
     
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  4. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Sandro Mazzinghi was a star in Italy. As far as star status goes, I talked about Bruno ARcari but I think Carnera was probably the biggest though.
     
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  5. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Thought this was an easy question until I saw the criteria didn't include "Italian Americans"...............I'm gonna tap out here :rolleyes:
     
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  6. skandinavija

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    Roberto Cammarelle!

    Even though he is an amateur he is a three-time Olympic medalist!

    2008 Gold in Bejing
    2012 Silver in London
    2004 Bronze in Athens

    He beat guys like Tony Yoka, Zhang, Joshua, Hrgovic, Oscar Rivas, Povetkin and many many more!
     
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  7. Jpreisser

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    One of the most consistently underrated lightweights. How does a former Lightweight Champion, who made four defenses, and beat men the caliber of McLarnin, Canzoneri, Petrolle, Fields, Kansas, etc., get so little love?
     
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  8. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Gianfranco Rosi deserves a mention. Crafty in a John Ruiz sort of way.
     
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  9. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    because "in his/their own time, great fighters though they were, they were great Among Many"
     
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  10. Bokaj

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    Kalambay as nr. 2 or 1 probably.
     
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  11. Greg Price99

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    I thoroughly endorse this post. Peculiar how underrated Sammy Mandell is.
     
    Greg Price99, Nov 12, 2023
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  12. mcvey

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    Mandell probably takes this.
     
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  13. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Italians from Italy? or Italians from the United States? So many great ones from the USA and many of them have Anglo or Irish names. The US had the rough gyms, streets and Americans of Italian blood excelled.
     
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  14. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hey Bummy. I talking about nationality. And since there is no such a thing as one singular italian ethnicity since we are one more different than the other depending on the region, italians are a nationality rather than a ethnicity or something.

    It is a interesting fact that italian-americans had more sucess in Boxing than actual italians...considering the difference in numbers, italian-americans should not be better at boxing than italians, which is obviously moer to do with Boxing being more popular in US I guess.
     
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