He belonged to a family of champions of Greco-Roman wrestling, who were famous, but low-key; his brothers were Roberto Massimo and Emilio Ruggerio Raicevich.

Giovanni Raicevich, began his activities by opening a gym in Trieste, aided by his brothers.

[1] He repeated the success on 16 February 1909 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, against the French Paul Pons, one of the best wrestlers of all time.

He was also champion of Italy in the specialty without interruption from 1907 to 1929 when he left the unbeaten competitive sport after his triumph against the Czech Hans Kavan.

His physical strength won him parts cinema chromatography in several films in the series Maciste, including L'uomo della foresta of 1922 directed by Roman director Ubaldo Maria Del Colle.