Giacomo Bozzano

Giacomo Bozzano
Data
Birth Name	Giacomo Bozzano
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Italian
birthday	April 12, 1933
place of birth	Sestri Levante
Date of death	November 21, 2008
Place of death	Sestri Levante
style	Left-hand boom
size	185 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	34
Victories	31
Knockout victories	15th
Defeats	3

Giacomo "Mino" Bozzano (born April 12, 1933 in Sestri Levante ; † November 21, 2008 ibid) was an Italian boxer.

amateur

Bozzano took part in the 1955 European Championships in West Berlin , where he had to get out of the quarter-finals due to injury. In 1956 he started in the heavyweight division at the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne , where he was able to fight for a bronze medal. In the second round he defeated Ilkka Koski from Finland (bronze medalist at the 1952 Olympics) and in the quarterfinals Ulli Nitzschke from Germany (European champion 1953 and runner-up European champion 1955) before losing to Lew Muchin from the Soviet Union in the semi- finals.

He also succeeded in international matches, including a victory against Tomislav Krizmanić (bronze medalist at the EM 1953) and a points victory against three-time German runner-up Fritz Lahr .

professional

On March 2, 1957, he played his first professional fight. He won 25 fights in a row, 13 of them prematurely. He defeated the French champions Maurice Mols, Emile Vidal and Robert Duquesne, the Spanish champion José González, the Commonwealth champion Joe Bygraves , the Belgian amateur European champion from 1951 Marcel Limage , the Olympian from 1948 Uber Bacilieri , European champion Franco Cavicchi and the US American ex-world champion Joey Maxim .

On November 5, 1959, he finally suffered the first defeat of his professional career when he was knocked out by the German Hans Kalbfell in a final European Championship elimination match. He suffered another knockout defeat in December 1960 against the German Gerhard Zech . He fought his last boxing match on October 13, 1962 against his compatriot Santo Amonti, whom he won through t. Knocked out in the third round.

Web links

• Giacomo Bozzano in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Website; "Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
• Profile at BoxRec