(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 20 – Italian boxing has lost its “monument now that Nino Benvenut has died at 87, Italian Boxing Federation President Flavio D’Ambrosi said.
“Today Italian boxing loses its monument, and I feel like saying ‘goodbye, great Nino'”, said FPI chief D’Ambrosi, who in the past also refereed many matches.
“Great men make sport great, Nino has left us, he has left his ring, his noble art and those who loved him, however, his memory will remain indelible, his figure is already myth and legend.
“Italian boxing and the entire sporting world will remember him forever: he was style, elegance and refinement inside and outside the 4 ropes.
“My father often told me about his extraordinary victories and his being a man of the people of boxing”, recalled the 55-year-old D’Ambrosi, who underlined how Benvenuti “from Olympic champion to world champion, gave Italians that sense of belonging and pride that only great people can give. “Nino was that ray of sunshine that illuminated Italian boxing even at the twilight of modern times. “Nino, you are in history and in the hearts of all those, many, who loved you”, he concluded addressing the former champion who passed away today. (ANSA).
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“Today Italian boxing loses its monument, and I feel like saying ‘goodbye, great Nino'”, said FPI chief D’Ambrosi, who in the past also refereed many matches.
“Great men make sport great, Nino has left us, he has left his ring, his noble art and those who loved him, however, his memory will remain indelible, his figure is already myth and legend.
“Italian boxing and the entire sporting world will remember him forever: he was style, elegance and refinement inside and outside the 4 ropes.
“My father often told me about his extraordinary victories and his being a man of the people of boxing”, recalled the 55-year-old D’Ambrosi, who underlined how Benvenuti “from Olympic champion to world champion, gave Italians that sense of belonging and pride that only great people can give. “Nino was that ray of sunshine that illuminated Italian boxing even at the twilight of modern times. “Nino, you are in history and in the hearts of all those, many, who loved you”, he concluded addressing the former champion who passed away today. (ANSA).
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