Duilio Loi, the longshoreman who became a boxing champion

The difficult beginnings in Genoa, scientific boxing, the no to match-fixing in the United States, the winning records, the rivalry with Nino Benvenuti and Alzheimer’s: let’s retrace the unique story of “The man of the last two shots”

Cwho knows if before that evening he had ever seen a painting by Picasso or if someone had at least told him about it; certainly in that photographic shot, the work of Vito Liverani, even without knowing it, it is as if he were painting one: in that eternal frame in which he hits Carlos Ortiz’s face with his right, tangling up his features, Duilio Loi uses his glove as a brush put at the service of avant-garde art.

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