Aristide Pozzali

Aristide Pozzali
Data
Birth Name	Pozzali, Aristide
Weight class	Flyweight
nationality	Italian
birthday	October 12, 1931
place of birth	Cremona , Lombardy
Date of death	1979
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	36
Victories	31
Knockout victories	10
Defeats	3
draw	2

Aristide Pozzali (born October 12, 1931 in Cremona , Lombardy , † 1979 ) was an Italian boxer . It was 1951 European champion of the amateurs in the flyweight .

Career

Amateur career

Aristide Pozzali started boxing as a teenager in his hometown of Cremona. He was a member of the Cremona Academic Boxing Club . He was very light and initially fought in flyweight and later switched to bantamweight . He was Italian flyweight champion in 1952 and bantamweight in 1953 and 1954. All that is known of these championships is that he defeated Piani in the semifinals in 1953 and Giuseppe Velitti in the final on points.

He played his first international fight in 1950. He defeated it in Naples in an international fight against Turkey in the flyweight Sevindik Ercis on points.

In May 1951 he represented the Italian colors at the European Amateur Championships in Milan. He defeated there in the flyweight Josef Frankreiter from the Federal Republic of Germany on points, then came to a knockout victory in the first round over Hans Schmöller from Austria and defeated Pentti Hämäläinen from Finland in the semifinals and Hendrik van der Zee from the Netherlands in the final Points and became European champion. In October 1951 he also started at the Mediterranean Games in Alexandria / Egypt. He defeated there in the final of the flyweight Kalash el-Seyed from Syria.

In May 1952, Aristide Pozzali defeated in Rome in an international match Italy against the United States flyweight Kenneth Wright on points. In July 1952, he also started at the Olympic boxing tournament in Helsinki in the flyweight division. In his first fight there he defeated Andrew Reddy from Ireland on points, but was defeated in the round of 16 against Anatoly Bulakow from the Soviet Union on points, with which he was eliminated and came in 9th place.

In April 1953 he fought in Venice in an international match between Italy and Finland in the bantamweight division against Pentti Hämäläinen, who had become Olympic champion in Helsinki in this weight class , and lost this fight on points. At the European Championships in Warsaw in 1953, he was not at the start.

In April 1954, Aristide Pozzali played one of his last fights as an amateur in Milan in an international match against the Federal Republic of Germany. He parted in the bantamweight division from Alfred Schweer from Bochum in a draw.

Profile career

In 1954 Aristide Pozzali became a professional. Geo Castellani became his manager. He played his first professional fight on August 30, 1954 in Brescia, where he defeated his compatriot Cosimo Pezzuto on points in the flyweight division. In the further course of his professional career, he played only two title fights. On November 13, 1955 he won the Italian flyweight championship in Cremona by a knockout victory in the second round over Franco Lambardozzo and on March 2, 1957 he fought in Milan against defending champion Young Martin from Spain for the European flyweight championship. Aristide Pozzali lost this fight by knockout in the fourth round.

The last fight of his professional career he denied on March 31, 1958 in Modena in flyweight against Stefano Urbani, against whom he won on points.

In total, Aristide Pozzali played 36 professional fights, of which he won 31, including 10 by knockout. Only three fights, one of them by knockout, he lost and twice he boxed a draw.

Aristide Pozzali died in January 1979 at the age of only 48.

Explanations

• Flyweight, then weight class up to 51 kg, bantam weight, up to 54 kg body weight (only amateur area)
• KO = "Knock Out"

literature

• Box Sport magazine

Web links

• Aristide Pozzali in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• Record from Aristide Pozzali