Tom Bethea

[Joey Giardello]

Tom Bethea Came out of no were to stop reigning middleweight champion nino benvenuti in a non title fight, dropping nino with body shots and breakeing his ribs nino had to be pulled out by his corner, at that time of the nino fight bethea had a record of 9 wins 5 losses, he also went the distance with a pre world champion monzon. He was trained by gil clancy.

[Real King Kong]

this got me looking at benvenuti's career on boxrec. it stood out too me what a global sport boxing used to be when looking at all the different cities and countries he fought in.