Sport & Note

Ernesto Formenti

Male

Featherweight, Italy, Milano, Lombardia
Born: 2 August 1927, Seregno, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Died: 5 October 1989, Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Club: Acc.Pug. Seregnese

as an amateur:
1948 Milano, Italian Championships featherweight winner
1948 London, England, Olympic Games featherweight gold medal
1949 Firenze, Italian Championships featherweight winner

About amateur results assistance provided
by Pietro Anselmi and Fausto Borgonzoni

Fights summary; 28 contests, won 21, lost 3, drew 4

Amateur results

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1945
= Nov. 4	Peratici	Milano, Italy	Draw 3
+ Nov. 7	Ferrari	Monza, Italy	WPTS 3
= Nov. 18	Mariani	Milano, Italy	Draw 3
Milano, Italy, Lombardia Regional Championships 2nd place
+ Dec. 7	Perego	Milano, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Dec. 8	Permieri	Milano, Italy	WAB 2
- Dec. 9	Vaccari	Milano, Italy	LPTS 3
1946
Luccai, Italy, Italian National Championships quarter-finals, 57.200 kg
- May 7	Umberto Del Carlo	Lucca, Italy	LPTS 3
1947 No results recorded
1948
Milano, Italy, Dual Match Italy vs Hungary, 57.200 kg
= Mar. 8	Bela Farkas	Milano, Italy	Draw 3
Milano, Italy, Italian Championships winner, 57.200 kg
+ May 4	Ventura	Milano, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 5	Aldo Vincenzi	Milano, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 6	Marco Permieri	Milano, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 7	Nello Barbadoro	Milano, Italy	WPTS 3
Padova, Italy, Dual Match Italy vs Switzerland, 57.200 kg
+ May 16	Fritz Scholer	Padova, Italy	WTKO 2
= July 11	Nello Barbadoro	Impruneta, Italy	Draw 3
Padova, Italy, Dual Match Italy vs Switzerland, 57.200 kg
+ July 14	Fritz Scholer	Padova, Italy	WPTS 3
London, England, Olympic Games gold medal, 57.200 kg
+ Aug. 7	Bela Farkas	London, England	WPTS
+ Aug. 10	Kevin Martin	London, England	WPTS
+ Aug. 11	Armand Savoie	London, England	WPTS
+ Aug. 12	Aleksy Antkiewicz	London, England	WPTS
+ Aug. 13	Dennis Shepherd	London, England	WPTS
1949
Sanremo, Italy, Dual Match Italy vs Austria, 57.200 kg
+ Jan. 6	Eduard Kerschbaumer	Sanremo, Italy	WPTS 3
Dublin, Ireland, Dual Match Ireland vs Italy, 57.200 kg
- Jan. 28	David Connell	Dublin, Ireland	LPTS 3
+ Feb. 4	T. Heerey	Dublin, Ireland	WTKO 3
Firenze, Italy, Italian Championships winner, 57.200 kg
+ Apr. 4	Sini	Firenze, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Apr. 5	Aldo Pravisani	Firenze, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Apr. 6	Altidoro Polidori	Firenze, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Apr. 7	Enrico Macale	Firenze, Italy	WPTS 3
Chicago, Illinois, Dual Match USA vs Europe, 57.200 Kg
+ May 18	Eugene Robnett	Chicago, Illinois	WPTS 3

Professional record

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1949
+ July 23	Giuseppe Salardi	Seregno, Italy	KO 4
+ Aug. 8	Felice Ceriani	Imperia, Italy	W 6
+ Aug. 27	Antonio Romagnoli	La Spezia, Italy	W 6
+ Sept. 14	Gianni Mariani	Milano, Italy	W 6
+ Sept. 28	Franco Ghilardi	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Oct. 27	Avio Gattamorta	Legnano, Italy	TKO 2
+ Nov. 23	Sigi Tennenbaum	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Dec. 7	Dante Venturi	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Dec. 21	Jean Zadros	Milano, Italy	W 8
1950
+ Jan. 11	Marcel Guyot	Milano, Italy	KO 5
+ Jan. 25	Tino Cardinale	Milano, Italy	W 10
+ Feb. 3	Jean Archambault	Geneva, Switzerland	W 10
+ Mar. 10	Andre Benatar	Monza, Italy	W 10
+ Mar. 22	Antonio Iturbe	Milano, Italy	KO 8
+ Apr. 15	Georges Mousse	Milano, Italy	W 10
+ Apr. 29	Roger Bruneau	Milano, Italy	W 10
+ May 24	Nicola Funari	Milano, Italy	W 10
+ June 20	Alvaro Cerasani	Milano, Italy	WDQ 7
(Won Italian Featherweight Title)
+ Aug. 3	Aaron Joshua	Milano, Italy	W 8
- Sept. 6	Alvaro Cerasani	Milano, Italy	KO by 1
+ Oct. 17	Mario Rosellini	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Dec. 14	Nicola Funari	Milano, Italy	W 12
(Retained Italian Featherweight Title)
1951
+ Jan. 31	Marcel Auclair	Milano, Italy	W 10
+ Feb. 14	Franco Simonetti	Seregno, Italy	W 8
= Feb. 28	Altidoro Polidori	Grosseto, Italy	Draw 10
+ Apr. 14	Jose Garcia	Seregno, Italy	TKO 4
+ June 8	Hans Schoemig	Bologna, Italy	W 10
+ July 28	Altidoro Polidori	Roma, Italy	W 12
(Retained Italian Featherweight Title)
= Sept. 13	Ray Famechon	Milano, Italy	Draw 10
1952
+ Jan. 16	Abel Werner	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Feb. 18	Evo Savini	Pavia, Italy	W 8
+ Feb. 24	Juan Padilla	Napoli, Italy	W 10
+ May 17	Mario Rosellini	Firenze, Italy	W 8
+ July 19	Gianluigi Uboldi	Milano, Italy	W 8
+ Sept. 3	Evo Savini	Ravenna, Italy	W 8
+ Oct. 2	Emilio Marconi	Roma, Italy	WDQ 7
+ Oct. 9	Maurice Maury	Milano, Italy	W 10
1953
- Jan. 28	Duilio Loi	Milano, Italy	TKO by 9
(For Italian Lightweight Title)
+ May 17	Louis Carrara	Marseille, France	W 10
+ May 27	Franco Antonini	Lecco, Italy	W 8
- June 20	Duilio Loi	Milano, Italy	TKO by 10
1954
+ Feb. 6	Ray Paini	Milano, Italy	W 8
= Mar. 3	Gaetano De Lucia	Genova, Italy	Draw 8
+ Mar. 10	Karl Pinsdorf	Piacenza, Italy	W 8
+ Apr. 10	Giancarlo Garbelli	Milano, Italy	W 8
- Apr. 30	Simon Perillat	Geneva, Switzerland	TKO by 4
+ May 31	Ray Paini	Genova, Italy	W 6
- June 16	Guy Gracia	Milano, Italy	TKO by 8

Summary

Total bouts: 48, Won: 40 (5 inside the limit), Lost: 5 (5 inside the limit), Draw: 3, NC: 0