Nino Benvenuti, who has died aged 87, was a three-time, two-weight world boxing champion of the 1960s; he was Italy’s greatest ever fighter and one of the best from Europe. But the man who used to ...
He lost the middleweight title to Nino Benvenuti of Italy in April 1967, won it back from him, then lost it again in their third bout. He briefly held the new junior middleweight title in the early ...