Nino Benvenuti, the great middleweight champion, has passed away at the age of 87. The handsome Italian, who enjoyed success as an actor, also claimed the world junior middleweight championship when ...

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 ...

ROME — Nino Benvenuti, an Italian former boxer who won gold at his home Olympics in 1960 before earning world championship titles in two weight classes as a pro, has died at age 87. The Italian ...

Ex-Italian two-weight world champion Nino Benvenuti has died at 87, as many tributes have been coming in. Benvenuti’s talent was undeniable. He achieved a 119-1 amateur record, going down as one of ...

Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius ...