Giovanni Parisi (2 December 1967 – 25 March 2009) was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight (57 kg) category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
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Real name | Giovanni Parisi | |||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Flash | |||||||||||||
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Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||
Born | 2 December 1967 Vibo Valentia, Italy | |||||||||||||
Died | 25 March 2009(2009-03-25) (aged 41) Voghera, Italy | |||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||
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Total fights | 47 | |||||||||||||
Wins | 41 | |||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 29 | |||||||||||||
Losses | 5 | |||||||||||||
Draws | 1 | |||||||||||||
No contests | 0 | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Below is the record of Giovanni Parisi, an Italian featherweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics:
A native of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Parisi began his professional career in 1989 and won the Vacant WBO Lightweight Title by defeating Javier Altamirano in 1992. He later defeated former champion Freddie Pendleton and in 1995 challenged Mexican legend Julio César Chávez for the WBC Light Welterweight Title, losing a unanimous decision. Parisi went on to capture the WBO Light Welterweight Title and defend it successfully six times. He lost the WBO light-welterweight belt to Carlos Gonzalez in May 1998, and failed in a challenge for the welterweight title against Daniel Santos in July 2000.
He last fought in September 2006, when he lost a majority decision against Frederic Klose in Milan for the European welterweight crown.
On 25 March 2009, Parisi was driving a car at Voghera, near Pavia, when it crashed head-on with a truck. Parisi died at the scene; he was 41.[1]
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Vacant Title last held by Dingaan Thobela |
WBO lightweight champion 25 September 1992 - 23 January 1994 Vacated |
Vacant Title next held by Oscar De La Hoya | ||
Preceded by Sammy Fuentes |
WBO junior welterweight champion 9 March 1996 - 29 May 1998 |
Succeeded by Carlos González | ||
Junior welterweight status | ||||
Preceded by Edwin Rosario |
Latest born world champion to die 25 March – 11 July 2009 |
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1904: 115–125 lb (52.2–56.7 kg) · 1908: 116–126 lb (52.6–57.2 kg) · 1920–1928: 118–126 lb (53.5–57.2 kg) · 1932–1936: 119–126 lb (54.0–57.2 kg) · 1948: 54–58 kg · 1952–2008: 54–57kg · 2020–: 53–57 kg | |
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