Duilio Loi dominated the lightweight and welterweight divisions in Europe for most of the 1950s, but he earned his way onto this list because of his six battles with Hall of Famers Carlos Ortiz and Eddie Perkins in the 1960s.
One of Italy's greatest fighters, Loi turned pro in 1948 and fought his way up to a shot at the Italian lightweight title in 1950. That effort ended in a draw. He won his first title in 1951 over the lightly regarded Gianluigi Uboldi. In 1952, he lost to Jorgen Johansen when he took his first shot for an EBU European title. That would be Loi's last loss for nearly eight years.
Loi spent the rest of the decade dominating Europe. Finally, in June of 1960 he got a shot for a world title against Carlos Ortiz. The fight took place in Utah and Loi lost a split decision. They fought again three months later, this time in Italy, and Loi won a majority decision. In June of 1961, Ortiz took one more shot at Loi and lost by unanimous decision.
Loi then started another trilogy, this time with Eddie Perkins. All three fights took place in Italy. The first ended in a draw, Perkins won the second by unanimous decision and Loi won the last on points. Loi then retired.
Loi was no knockout artist. He won just 26 of his 115 wins by KO. But he had a stellar 16-3-3 record in title fights or fights against Hall of Famers. And if you weren't championship caliber, you had no chance. Loi was 97-0-5 in non-title fights.
| Duilio Loi | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significant Fights | |||||||
| Opponent | Result | Fight Points |
Title Points |
HOF Points |
Total | x Win % | Final Total |
| Luigi Male | Draw | 50 | 10 | 60 | 84.00% | 50.4 | |
| Jorgen Johansen | UD-L | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ernesto Formenti | KO | 100 | 20 | 120 | 97.14% | 116.6 | |
| Emilio Marconi | Draw | 50 | 10 | 60 | 80.65% | 48.4 | |
| Jorgen Johansen | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 84.21% | 92.6 | |
| Bruno Visintin | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 100.00% | 110.0 | |
| Jacques Herbillon | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 92.45% | 101.7 | |
| Giancarlo Garbelli | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 97.06% | 106.8 | |
| Jose Hernandez | Draw | 50 | 10 | 60 | 91.18% | 54.7 | |
| Jose Hernandez | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 86.49% | 95.1 | |
| Felix Chiocca | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 76.47% | 84.1 | |
| Emilio Marconi | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 83.87% | 92.3 | |
| Bruno Visintin | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 88.52% | 97.4 | |
| Carlos Ortiz | SD-L | 25 | 25 | 25 | 75 | 93.94% | 70.5 |
| Carlos Ortiz | SD-W | 75 | 100 | 100 | 275 | 94.12% | 258.8 |
| Maurice Auzel | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 73.08% | 80.4 | |
| Carlos Ortiz | UD-W | 90 | 100 | 100 | 290 | 91.67% | 265.8 |
| Chris Christensen | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 77.59% | 85.3 | |
| Eddie Perkins | Draw | 50 | 50 | 50 | 150 | 75.76% | 113.6 |
| Fortunato Manca | UD-W | 90 | 20 | 110 | 98.25% | 108.1 | |
| Eddie Perkins | UD-L | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Eddie Perkins | UD-W | 90 | 60 | 100 | 250 | 77.78% | 194.4 |
| Totals (16-3-3) 1 KO, 2 SD, 2 SDL | 2,227.0 | ||||||
| Record in non-significant fights | |||||||
| 99-0-5, 25 KOs | 9,410 | ||||||
| % of fights toward 50 (27%) | 2,531.3 | 2,531.3 | 71.93% | 1,820.8 | |||
| Totals | 4,047.8 | ||||||
| Peak 5 Fights | |||||||
| Carlos Ortiz | 265.8 | ||||||
| Carlos Ortiz | 258.8 | ||||||
| Eddie Perkins | 194.4 | ||||||
| Ernesto Formenti | 116.6 | ||||||
| Eddie Perkins | 113.6 | ||||||
| Peak 5 Totals | 949.3 | ||||||
| Final Totals (significant, non-significant, Peak 5) | 4,997.1 | ||||||
| Boxing's 100 Countdown | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Fighter | Significant Fights |
Non-Significant Fights |
Peak 5 | Final Total |
| 69. | Duilio Loi | 2,227.0 | 1,820.8 | 949.3 | 4,997.1 |
| 70. | Aaron Pryor | 1,771.3 | 2,196.5 | 1,022.9 | 4,999.7 |
| 71. | Bob Foster | 2,328.8 | 1,699.4 | 956.0 | 4,984.2 |
| 72. | Andre Ward | 1,681.0 | 2,513.8 | 774.0 | 4,968.9 |
| 73. | Gene Tunney | 1,578.0 | 2,260.9 | 1,114.9 | 4,953.8 |
| 74. | Terry Norris | 2,777.9 | 1,327.0 | 847.2 | 4,952.2 |
| 75. | Ike Williams | 2,209.4 | 1,667.5 | 1,055.3 | 4,932.2 |
| 76. | Vasiliy Lomachenko | 1,866.8 | 2,343.9 | 714.8 | 4,925.4 |
| 77. | Mike McCallum | 1,998.4 | 2,124.3 | 800.4 | 4,923.2 |
| 78. | Billy Conn | 1,937.3 | 1,936.1 | 1,031.5 | 4,905.0 |
| 79. | Benny Leonard | 1,729.8 | 2,089.5 | 1,040.1 | 4,859.4 |
| 80. | Sugar Shane Mosley | 2,479.9 | 1,512.3 | 858.7 | 4,850.9 |
| 81. | Lou Ambers | 1,589.2 | 2,098.7 | 1,158.2 | 4,846.1 |
| 82. | Harry Wills | 2,564.4 | 1,355.7 | 923.7 | 4,843.8 |
| 83. | Mickey Walker | 1,987.8 | 1,775.7 | 1,075.4 | 4,838.8 |
| 84. | Joe Gans | 2,314.9 | 1,639.8 | 883.0 | 4,837.6 |
| 85. | Sven Ottke | 2,824.5 | 1,317.7 | 687.5 | 4,829.7 |
| 86. | Ronald "Winky" Wright | 2,243.3 | 1,658.3 | 922.5 | 4,824.1 |
| 87. | Fighting Harada | 1,259.6 | 2,409.2 | 1,105.9 | 4,774.7 |
| 88. | Humberto Gonzalez | 1,866.7 | 1,952.3 | 907.3 | 4,726.4 |
| 89. | Ricardo Lopez | 2,830.5 | 1,188.1 | 702.7 | 4,721.3 |
| 90. | Carmen Basilio | 1,723.3 | 1,804.7 | 1,184.1 | 4,712.2 |
| 91. | Orlando Canizales | 2,529.3 | 1,510.3 | 669.3 | 4,708.9 |
| 92. | Jeff Fenech | 2,103.9 | 1,728.7 | 844.8 | 4,677.4 |
| 93. | Michael Carbajal | 2,333.7 | 1,519.2 | 817.0 | 4,669.9 |
| 94. | Marcel Thil | 2,579.8 | 1,170.9 | 900.9 | 4,651.6 |
| 95. | Nicolino Locche | 1,858.0 | 1,946.8 | 820.3 | 4,625.1 |
| 96. | Ricky Hatton | 3,458.8 | 449.1 | 708.9 | 4,616.8 |
| 97. | Ismael Laguna | 1,059.5 | 2,659.4 | 889.9 | 4,608.7 |
| 98. | Ramon "Chocalatito" Gonzalez | 2,187.1 | 1,771.9 | 638.6 | 4,597.5 |
| 99. | Wilfredo Benitez | 1,439.4 | 2,223.0 | 914.4 | 4,586.8 |
| 100. | Carlos Zarate | 1,124.2 | 2,707.1 | 751.5 | 4,582.8 |
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