Alessandro Mazzinghi

Alessandro Mazzinghi, known as Sandro, was an Italian professional boxer, born on 3 October 1938 and died on 22 August 2020, who held the world light middleweight championship twice. He won the Military World Championships in 1961 and turned professional the same year, following his elder brother Guido. On 7 September 1963 he won the world light middleweight title by ninth-round technical knockout of Ralph Dupas in Milan, and he lost it to Nino Benvenuti in June 1965. After taking the European crown in 1966, he regained the world title on 26 May 1968 by beating Ki-Soo Kim at San Siro in Milan. He left boxing in 1970, made a comeback in 1977 and 1978, and retired in 1978.