[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/19/67 Thursday
Sports Palace, Bologna, Italy
Remington Dyanty – HW (0-1-0) vs. Giulio Saraudi – HW (7-0-2)

Remington Dyanty - Rating 1 South Africa
Heavyweight 1964-72
9 wins / 8 losses / 1 draw / 6 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Remington fought Ezrom Ngcobo(8-8-0,1) in August 1964 for the South African (Non-White) Heavyweight Title. It was Dyanty's first career fight. He lost a 12 round decision to Ngcobo. It was to be the first of 4 meetings between these two. Remington then did not fight again until January 1967 when he traveled to Bologna, Italy to take on Giulio Saraudi. They fought to an 8 round draw. The next month saw him in Sweden to fight Leotis Martin who KO'd Remington in the 3rd of a scheduled 10 rounder. From there is was back to Italy in March of 67 where Remington was KO'd in the 6th by Santo Amonti. He then fought Vittorio Verrengia twice, in August and October of 1967 in Cisterna and then Rome, Italy. Remington lost by TKO in 3 in the first fight then lost an 8 round decision in the second fight. That was to be Remington's last fight outside his native South Africa. He came back to Port Elizabeth, SA and fought Ngcobo again for the South African (Non-White) HW title in December 1967, this time winning the title in a 12 round decision.

Remington then did not fight for almost a year, finally defending his title against Ngcobo in October 1968. Ngcobo KO'd Remington in the 7th round. These two fought 1 more time, in May 1969 in a non title fight with Remington winning a 6 round decision. In December 1969, Remington fought Smith Tshabalala(0-2-0,0) for the then vacant South African (Non-White) HW Title. Remington won back the title with an 8th round TKO.

Remington defended his title successfuly twice over the next 2-1/2 years as he finished his career going 6-2-0 against total meaningless opponents. One of his South African title defenses was against a Fraser Memela(10-11-2,6) who at least had some kind of record. This fight is also billed in BoxRec as for the Natal Heavyweight Title. Anyone know what that is?

Giulio Saraudi - Rating 3 Italy
Heavyweight 1965-68
9 wins / 1 loss / 3 draws / 4 KO

Birthplace: Civitavecchia, Italy

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

After 4 easy opponent wins to start his career, Saraudi then defeated Jose Angel Manzur(31-33-14,13) and fought draws with Renato Moraes(20-14-4,12) and Leweni Waga(25-15-1,16). Then in May 1966 he won an 8 round decision against Horst Benedens(27-11-3,17) and in Sept 1966 then beat Jurgen Blin in an 8 round decision. Saraudi followed that up in December 1966 with a fight against Giulio Rinaldi. The fight was stopped in the 5th round for some reason and declared a no contest.

In January 1967 Giulio then fought another 8 round draw, this time with South African Remington Dyanty. After a win against a Valere Mahau, Saraudi's career ended with a 10 round loss to Johnny Prescott and then his final fight in January 1968 was a win, an 8 round decision against Roosevelt Eddie, Jr.


The fight...
BoxRec shows one fight for Dyanti, a 12 round decision loss in his native South Africa, in a fight for the South African (Non-White) Heavyweight Title in August, 1964. We then jump to this day in January 1967 where he’s fighting Giulio Saraudi in Bologna, Italy, the first of 5 fights Dyanty will contend in in Europe in 1967. You would have to wonder if he in fact had accumulated some kind of impressive record before and after that fight in 1964 that lead Dyanty to travel to Europe for a round of fights with some fairly experienced and worthy opponents, none like that he would face later in his homeland of South Africa. For Saraudi, his record includes recent wins over Horst Benedens who would accumulate a 27-11-3,17KO record and Jurgen Blin whom we know from out of Germany. Up until the fight with Benedens whom he fought in Berlin, Saraudi’s career had been entirely in Italy. He defeated Blin in an 8 round decision in Rome. In the fight in 1967, an 8 round affair, Dyanty took Saraudi the whole route, only to loose a decision to the Italian fighter.
Our replay fight was much shorter. Saraudi dominated it throughout. In the first round, the Italian HW came out a bit slow with neither fighter connecting with anything for the first minute of the fight. Then at the 1 minute mark, Saraudi lands a hard cross that stuns Remington. Then after missing with a punch he lands another cross. A little under 2 minutes into the fight Saraudi then tags Remington hard again with another cross. An uppercut comes in clean for Saraudi before Remington finally manages to get in some scoring blows before the round ends. Round two starts with a solid hook landed by Saraudi in just under a half minute that drops Remington for quick 2 count. Then just under 1 minute into the round, Saraudi lands a perfect combination that sends Remington slumping to the canvas. At the 8 count Dyanty is finally back on his feet. The action slows just for a bit then Saraudi lands some short ripping hooks that pounds Remington’s body. Then he bangs home a clean uppercut. By this time, Remington is clearly looking hurt. It looks like Saraudi could take it this round, but somehow Remington manages to hang on and even manages once again at the end of the round to score some punches. All 3 judges give it decided scoring to Saraudi each going 10-7 in the Italian’s favor. The 3rd round opens with Saraudi shaking Remington again with a hard straight right. He then lands a solid combination and follows that up with a vicious hook that drops Remington for the 3rd time in the bout. Surprisingly, the South African makes up in a quick 2 count! Saraudi shoots some jabs in then over the next ¾ minute, then he delivers a wakeup call with a sharp combination! Saraudi then snaps off a jab and a solid punch to the body. Remington is taking too many clean shots without any kind of response and appears at this point unable to defend himself. That’s exactly what the referee is feeling when he steps in a the 2:32 mark of the 3rd round and stops the fight! A 3rd round TKO victory for Giulio Saraudi.