The Most Famous
BOXERS from Slovenia
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovene Boxers of all time. This list of famous Slovene Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nino Benvenuti (b. 1938)
With an HPI of 57.48, Nino Benvenuti is the most famous Slovene Boxer. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Giovanni "Nino" Benvenuti (born 26 April 1938) is an Italian former professional boxer and actor. He held world titles in two weight classes, having held the undisputed super-welterweight championship from June 1965 to June 1966 and the undisputed middleweight championship twice, from April to September 1967, and from March 1968 to November 1970. As an amateur welterweight boxer he won the Italian title in 1956–60, the European title in 1957 and 1959, and an Olympic gold medal in 1960, receiving the Val Barker trophy for boxing style. In 1961, having an amateur record of 120-0, he turned professional and won world titles in the light-middleweight division and twice in the middleweight division. Near the end of his boxing career he appeared in two Italian films, Sundance and the Kid (1969) and then in Mark Shoots First (1975). Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992. He currently ranks No.32 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time. In 1968, Benvenuti was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2011, The Ring magazine ranked him as seventh on their list of the "10 best middleweight title holders of the last 50 years."
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Slovene boxers born between 1938 and 1938. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Slovene boxers include Nino Benvenuti.
