Marijan Beneš Boxer

Marijan Beneš (Serbian Cyrillic: Маријан Бенеш; born June 11, 1951) is a former Yugoslavian boxer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, still considered one of the best in Yugoslav history. After a brilliant amateur career, culminating in the gold medal in European Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade, he turned professional in 1977, and won the European Boxing Union title in the light welterweight in 1979. Beneš withdrew from the ring in 1983, after a severe eye injury.

Personal facts

Marijan Beneš
Birth dateJune 11, 1951
Birth place
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Belgrade , Yugoslavia , Socialist Republic of Serbia

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  1. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=39300&cat=boxer