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Alessandro "Sandro" Lopopolo

BORN   December 18 1939; Milan, Italy
HEIGHT 5-7 (Some sources report 5-5 1/2)
WEIGHT 136-145 lbs

Lopopolo was a "quite capable" boxer who compiled a career record of 59-10-7 (1 "No Contest") with 21 knockouts; During his career, he captured the WBC Light Welterweight Championship of the World, the WBA Light Welterweight Championship of the World and the Light Welterweight Championship of Italy

"Sandro" defeated such men as Paul Fuji, Carlos Hernandez, Conny Rudhof, Roger Menetrey, Giordano Campari, Piero Brandi, Vicente Rivas, Massimo Consolati, Mario Pallavera, Rene Barriere, Franco Caruso, Douglas Vaillant, Olli Maki, Lennox Beckles, David Pesenti and Percy Pugh

***  AMATEUR BOUTS  ***

1960
       Johnny Bolang              Rome, Italy                         W  3
       Stoffel Steyn              Rome, Italy                         W  3
       Daniel O'Brien             Rome, Italy                         W  3
       Harry Campbell             Rome, Italy                         W  3
       Abel Laudonio              Rome, Italy                         W  3
       Kazimierz Pazdzior         Rome, Italy                         L  3
          -The previous 6 bouts were part of the Olympic Games
          Lightweight Competition; Lopopolo won the Silver Medal


***  PROFESSIONAL  BOUTS  ***

1961
Jan 21 Ahcene Attar               Milan, Italy                       KO  6
Mar  4 Bernardo Favia             Milan, Italy                       TK  2
Mar 18 Roberto Misin              Milan, Italy                        D  6
Mar 31 Luigi Lombardi             Ancona, Italy                      NC  3
May 31 Antonio DiPaolo            Rome, Italy                        WF  5
Jun 23 Milov Bulat                Milan, Italy                       TK  6
Jul 22 Renato Massori             Saronno, Italy                     KO  5
Aug  5 Mario Pallavera            Saint Vincent, Valle d'Aoste, Italy W  8
Sep 26 Guiliano Tarquini          Turin, Italy                       KO  2
Oct  6 Nedo Stampi                Florence, Italy                     D  8
Oct 21 Ahcene Attar               Milan, Italy                       TK  7
Nov 24 Jaime Aparici              Milan, Italy                        W  8
Dec 26 Giuseppe Fanfoni           Milan, Italy                       TK  1

1962
Jan 19 Bobby Ros                  Milan, Italy                        W  8
Feb 27 Sergio Righeschi           Ascoli, Italy                       W  8
Mar 22 Jacques Chauveau           Milan, Italy                       TK  7
Apr 10 Mohammed Ben Said          Turin, Italy                       TK  6
Apr 29 Aime Devisch               Milan, Italy                        W  8
May 26 Roger Younsi               Milan, Italy                        W  8
Jun 16 Miguel Campos Lopez        Reggio Emilia, Italy               TK  2
Jun 30 Belaid Meslem              Saint Vincent, Valle d'Aoste, Italy W  8
Jul 22 Romolo Spila               Civitanova del Sannio, Italy        W  8
Sep 14 Bernard Moreau             Milan, Italy                        W  8
Sep 28 Franco Caruso              Rome, Italy                         W  8
Oct 25 Jean Dantas                Salsomaggiore, Italy                W 10
Dec 15 Rene Barriere              Milan, Italy                       TK  4

1963
Jan 25 J.D. Ellis                 Milan, Italy                        W 10
Mar  8 Tommy O'Connor             Milan, Italy                       KO  1
May  5 Mario Vecchiatto           Milan, Italy                        D 10
Oct  4 Michele Gullotti           Milan, Italy                        W  8
Nov  8 Karl Furcht                Milan, Italy                       TK  6
Nov 29 Franco Caruso              Mestre, Italy                       W 12
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy
Dec 20 Douglas Vaillant           Milan, Italy                        W 10

1964
Apr 22 Valerio Nunez              Milan, Italy                        D 10
Jun 28 Giordano Campari           Saint Vincent, Valle d'Aoste, Italy W 12
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy
Jul 25 Massimo Consolati          Senigallia, Italy                   W 12
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy
Sep 24 Piero Brandi               Treviso, Italy                      L 12
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy
Dec 19 Luiz Penteado              Milan, Italy                        W 10

1965
Feb  5 Antonio Fernandez de Jesus Piacenza, Italy                     W 10
Mar 13 Piero Brandi               Genoa, Italy                       TK  9
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy
Jun 19 Antonio Fernandez de Jesus Verona, Italy                       W 10
Jul 17 Juan Albornoz              Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain       L 15 
          -EBU Light Welterweight Championship of Europe
Aug 21 Franco Caruso              Francavilla, Italy                  D 10
Dec 14 Romano Bianchi             Ascoli, Italy                       W 12
          -Light Welterweight Championship of Italy

1966
Apr 29 Carlos Hernandez           Rome, Italy                         W 15
          -WBC Light Welterweight Championship of the World
          WBA Light Welterweight Championship of the World
Jul  3 Vicente Rivas              Caracas, Venezuela                  L 10
Aug 10 Klaus Klein                Senigallia, Italy                   W 10
Sep 10 Nicolino Locche            Buenos Aires, Argentina             L 10
Oct 21 Vicente Rivas              Rome, Italy                        TK  8
          -WBC Light Welterweight Championship of the World
          WBA Light Welterweight Championship of the World
Nov 25 Joe Africa                 Turin, Italy                        W 10

1967
Apr 30 Paul Fuji                  Tokyo, Japan                       LK  2
          -WBC Light Welterweight Championship of the World
          WBA Light Welterweight Championship of the World
Oct  8 Massimo Consolati          Belgrade, Serbia                   TK  5

1968
Mar 22 Conny Rudhof               Belgrade, Serbia                    W 10
May 26 Lennox Beckles             Milan, Italy                        L 10

1969
Mar 14 Quintino Soarez            Pavia, Italy                       TK  2
Apr  3 Sylvain Lucchesi           Milan, Italy                        W  8
May  9 Lakdar El Harizi           Milan, Italy                        W  8
Jul 11 Olli Maki                  Milan, Italy                        W 10
Sep  6 Eddie Machen Jr.           Prato, Italy                       KO  1
Oct 10 Larry Flaviano             Milan, Italy                       TK  3
Nov  8 Miloud N'Diaye             Novara, Italy                       W 10
Dec 19 Lennox Beckles             Milan, Italy                       KO  1

1970
Jan 17 Miloud N'Diaye             Cagliari, Italy                     W 10
Apr 22 Rene Roque                 Montecatini, Italy                  L 15
          -EBU Light Welterweight Championship of Europe
May 30 Georges Fabbri             Aosta, Italy                        W  8
Jul  2 Dorman Crawford            Milan, Italy                        D 10
Oct 30 David Pesenti              Genoa, Italy                        W  8

1971
Jan 25 Marcel Cerdan Jr.          Paris, France                       D 10
Mar 22 Roger Menetrey             Paris, France                       W 10
May 14 Dorman Crawford            Milan, Italy                       WF  5
Jun  9 Robert Gallois             Paris, France                       L 10
Jul 29 Jean van Torre             Monza, Italy                       KO  1
Nov 12 Percy Pugh                 Milan, Italy                        W 10

1972
Feb 28 Roger Zami                 Paris, France                       L 15
          -EBU Light Welterweight Championship of Europe
Apr 20 Carlos Cappella            Milan, Italy                        W 10
Dec  9 Roger Menetrey             Grenoble, France                   LT 13
          -EBU Light Welterweight Championship of Europe

1973
Mar 30 Pietro Gasparri            Novara, Italy                       W 10


Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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