“Giuliano Gemma” FPI – CONI Award

Bronze sculpture from the cast of Nino Benvenuti’s fist with a base for the “Giuliano Gemma” Award

The Giuliano Gemma Award, now in its third edition, has been created to celebrate the great Boxing and the most representative and deserving characters of Italian and International Boxing, Sport and Cinema. From this edition the award will be represented by a bronze casting that reproduces the fist of the Olympic champion and World champion Nino Benvenuti. In order to realize the sculpture, a cast of the famous boxer’s hand was made, finished during the molding phase and finally fused.

Nino Benvenuti at the 10th Theater of Cinecittà Studios on the occasion of the great Boxe event, focused on the International WBC Title of the Supesium Weights and the Giuliano Gemma Award, held on December 14th 2018
Nino Benvenuti and Francesca Abbate during the realization of the plaster cast