It was also the first Olympic gold won by an athlete from Istria after Mate Parlov's boxing gold in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Mate Parlov Sport Centre is a multi-functional hall in Pula.
running mate | Mate Parlov | Third mate | master's mate | The Surgeon's Mate | Rudolph Maté | Paper Mate | Mate Boban | Yerba mate | Shripad Mahadev Mate | Rudolph Mate | Nanking Theatre in 1934, showing ''Tarzan and His Mate | Mate Meštrović | Mate (horse) | mate (beverage) | Máté | Mate | mate | Fool's Mate (album) | Fool's Mate | Boden's Mate |
Johnson lost to Matthew Saad Muhammad and Lottie Mwale in the build-up but won a world title—the WBC light heavyweight version—from fellow southpaw Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia with a 10th-round KO in Italy in December 1978, then lost that same title the following April, in front of his hometown Indianapolis fans, in a rematch to Muhammad in what was perhaps 1979's Fight of the Year for many observers.