Celebrated as much for his charisma as his boxing skill, he was a 1960 gold medalist in Rome, where he overshadowed a young ...

Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title ... middleweights Emile Griffith of the Virgin Islands and Carlos Monzon of Argentina turned into poignant friendships when his ...

Nino Benvenuti’s path to a world championship began not in a ring, but on a bicycle. As a young boy, he would ride 20 kilometers to Trieste to fight in amateur, ...

Nino Benvenuti, who has died aged 87, was a three-time, two-weight world boxing champion of the 1960s; he was Italy’s ...

Now all boxing biopic attention turns to the still-untitled Christy Martin movie, which filmed last year, is penciled in for ...

At the height of his fame, Italy's most beloved boxer was ... both Griffith and Carlos Monzón (87–3–9), the Argentine legend who would later be jailed for killing his wife.

A legend has passed away. This was, in Italy and in the world, Nino Benvenuti, who has died in Rome at the age of 87. He was ...

In sad news, it has been reported by Italian media that the great Nino Benvenuti has passed away, this at the grand old age ...