Carmelo Bossi (15 October 1939 – 23 March 2014) was an Italian boxer who was the
undisputed super welterweight
Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight,PeBoxRec/ref> is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing
The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA a ...
champion of the world. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his overall record was 40 wins (10 KOs), 8 defeats and 3 draws.
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Career
Bossi won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. In early 1961 he turned professional and fought through 1971. In 1965 Bossi won the national and in 1967 the European welterweight title. After defending the European title twice he lost it on 14 August 1968 to Fighting Mack. In 1967 he twice fought Willie Ludick for the world welterweight title (South African Version), but lost on both occasions.[Carmelo Bossi]
sports-reference.com In July 1970 he took the Lineal, WBC and WBA super welterweight titles by defeating Freddie Little
Freddie Little (born April 25, 1936) is a retired American professional boxer who held the undisputed junior middleweight championship. He used to work at Anthony Saville Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada as a P.E. teacher but suffered a medic ...
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Professional boxing record
See also
* List of world light-middleweight boxing champions
References
External links
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Carmelo Bossi - CBZ Profile
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1939 births
2014 deaths
Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Italy
Olympic medalists in boxing
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Boxers from Milan
Italian male boxers
European Boxing Union champions
World Boxing Association champions
World Boxing Council champions
Welterweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
World light-middleweight boxing champions