Amateur Highlights
- 1956 Italian Welterweight Champion
- 1957 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1957 European Light Middleweight Champion
- 1958 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1959 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- 1959 European Light Middleweight Champion
- 1960 Italian Light Middleweight Champion
- Won the Welterweight Gold Medal for Italy at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. Results were:
- Defeated Jean Josselin (France) points
- Defeated Ki-Soo Kim (South Korea) points
- Defeated Chichman Mitzev (Bulgaria) points
- Defeated Jimmy Lloyd (Great Britain) points
- Defeated Yuri Radonyak (Soviet Union) points
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“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
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