Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (1st meeting) - Revision history

Flatnose at 02:27, 6 December 2025

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	It was scored an eighth round knockout, marking the first time in his 85 fight, 10-year pro career that the handsome Italian had been stopped. His record is 80-4-1.		It was scored an eighth round knockout, marking the first time in his 85 fight, 10-year pro career that the handsome Italian had been stopped. His record is 80-4-1.

			*Purses: Benvenuti - $30,000, Bethea - $3,500
			*Bethea previously worked as a $200-a-week sparring partner for Benvenuti when the Italian was fighting Dick Tiger in New York in a non-title in 1969.

	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* See also: [[Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (2nd meeting)]]		* See also: [[Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (2nd meeting)]]

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	The 31-year-old Italian, who had absorbed a fierce beating and had been dropped in the seventh round, quit in the first few seconds of the eighth, complaining of a rib injury.		The 31-year-old Italian, who had absorbed a fierce beating and had been dropped in the seventh round, quit in the first few seconds of the eighth, complaining of a rib injury.

	It was scored an eighth round knockout, marking the first time in his 85 fight, 10-year pro career that the handsome Italian had been stopped. His record ~~his~~ 80-4-1.		It was scored an eighth round knockout, marking the first time in his 85 fight, 10-year pro career that the handsome Italian had been stopped. His record is 80-4-1.

	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* See also: [[Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (2nd meeting)]]		* See also: [[Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (2nd meeting)]]

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Melbourne, Australia (AP) – Tom “the Bomb” Bethea, a virtually unknown New Yorker who had lost his last four fights, scored one of the greatest ring upsets of the decade by stopping world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti in the eighth round of a non-title ten rounder Friday night.

The 31-year-old Italian, who had absorbed a fierce beating and had been dropped in the seventh round, quit in the first few seconds of the eighth, complaining of a rib injury.

It was scored an eighth round knockout, marking the first time in his 85 fight, 10-year pro career that the handsome Italian had been stopped. His record his 80-4-1.

==Notes==
* See also: [[Nino Benvenuti vs. Tom Bethea (2nd meeting)]]