VILLEPINTE, France — The Italian Boxing Federation said it would not accept any prize money from the banned International Boxing Association. IBA president Umar Kremlev had announced in a video that ...

ROME (AP) — 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 ...

LONDON – Italian Olympic boxer Vincenzo Mangiacapre demonstrated Thursday how an unidentified attacker killed a policeman on the grounds of Parliament in front of the shocked members of his boxing ...

Irma Testa, who over the summer became Italy’s first olympic boxing champion, came out as queer in a recent interview with Vanity Fair Italia. Testa said she doesn’t believe her identity fits into a ...

Entitled "The Art of Boxing - 100 years of emotions", the exhibition celebrates a century of the sport in the country. Alberto Brasca, the President of the Italian Boxing Federation, was also on hand ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. The two female boxers who found themselves at the center of a global controversy have ...

As always professional boxing in Italy heats up during the summer and it´s not because of the sunshine but rather due to the fact that networks have more dates when the soccer/football has closed for ...

MARCIANISE, Italy (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy punches a boxing bag with a pair of big gloves. Nearby, his father is training a group of wannabe champions. Out in the street a poster reads: ...

The greatest of the greats come to light in this wonderful history of Italian-American boxers--Rocky Marciano, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, and Willie Pep. In his intro, Hauser (Muhammad Ali: His ...

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