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Original articles collections from Gianna daughter of Giancarlo.
THE YOUNG WELTER WEIGHT WITHOUT FEAR
By Giancarlo Fusco
Generous warrior, great champion, good technique an amazing right punch. He reached thrilling goals confirming great prestigious. The audience was enchanted by his fights versus Lou Gage-Berek-Andrè Maugin-Buker-Sauveur Chiocca-Claude Poisson-Boswel St.Louis-Maurice Auzel-Sandy Manuel-Victoriano Olivares, Peter King, Tombstone Smith, Teddy Wright, Duilio Loi, Lazlo Papp.
By Rino Tommasi
---One of the two draw of Papp pro, is obliged on the Milan’s Ring December 26th 1960, by ours Giancarlo Garbelli after a brilliant careers as welter weights he transformed in a spectacular middle weight. That was the only time we see Lazlo Papp fighting in Italy, and neither Benvenuti either Sandro Mazzinghi were ready for him. Smart Nino Benvenuti, twelve years less of Papp, in waiting Lazlo Papp abandon the activity, to reach the European championship. It was a damage that Papp didn’t had the chance to fight others best in the world as Robinson, Fullmer, Dick Tiger. Unfortunately in his time, because political dictatorships in East European Countries, couldn’t pass into professionals athletics, he needed to conquer three Gold Medal before had the chance to go around Europe to gain, finally, little money
By Giulio Signori
---The story of Giancarlo Garbelli is worth that one of Rocky Graziano ("Somebody up there likes me") perhaps with something more: as an example, the disappeared father, also boxing champion in latest days of 2nd world, that day represent for him the begging of a difficult existence. To be honest also Giancarlo was loved for his courage without reservoirs also more than how much it was Duilio Loi, than however Vittorio Strumolo, the maximum manger of boxing of those years in Milan, preferred to have Loi working in association in his boxing organization.Genius and intemperance. Giancarlo used to go up on the ring as a brave soldier who was thrown outside from the trench, exact opposite of the natural calculating person who was Loi, and when they met themselves, to the limit of light-weigh the nearly prohibitive one for a "natural Welter", for Garbelli had been a bad match. But much not to discourage him or to change the meaning of boxing, it was all action without mental reservoirs. Even if he was defeated, the applauses would go above all for Giancarlo Garbelli. Protagonist without crown and without fear in a wonderful challenge against Lazlo Papp, the Hungarian champion. Or those duels style western with tremendous boxers like Tombstone Smith, or Larry Baker and Ted Wright. Between being "The Fighter" and the other, Giancarlo Garbelli, invented a lot of things to do, even a breeding of minks in the house that he bought near Varese, in Cadegliano, and he did not previewed that he had to nourish them, so he has been bitten by one of them. Then with his healthy energies in his hands helped the terminal obscurity. The last expedient, the painting, but it has not been the first and it will not be the last. Many saw in Garbelli the boxer who he had not been and who dreamed of being. Comprised on it genius and intemperance.