Mauricio Lovaglio vs. Stefano Abatangelo II & Roberto Cocco vs. Matteo Rossi RBR

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In this pair of all-domestic clashes (and three of the four principals hail from the hosting province, so very little home advantage) two minor European championships are at stake.

Cocco and Rossi battle for the Italian super middleweight title vacated by Andrea Di Luisa.

Lovaglio makes the incipient defense of his IBF Mediterranean cruiserweight title with Abatangelo moving up from light heavy to challenge.

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Maurizio "The Angel" Lovaglio was a bottom-carder for the bulk of his career, jobbing to prospects for years and unsuccessfully vying for a few minor titles. He finally scored a mild upset over heavy handed southpaw Cristian Dolzanelli, leading to an easy night against Bulgarian tomato can Konstantin Semerdjiev to obtain some hardware at last.

He can jab and move, but telegraphs his boomerang right.

Stefano "The Hammer" Abatangelo is a solidly built tank with a hard jaw, but little power of his own. He's coming off his career best win, against venerable Czech gatekeeper Jindrich Velecky (who's got a losing record but has been matched tough)

They're both thirty and have roughly the same quantity of experience, although Lovaglio has traveled the harder road.

Lovaglio is five inches taller.

This is actually a rematch. Abatangelo beat Lovaglio on points six years ago, very early in their careers. Lovaglio was 2-0 at the time, so he's probably got revenge on his mind as well as defending what's his.

Lovaglio vs. Dolzanelli:
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Lovaglio vs. Semerdjiev
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Nah, it's supposed to already be on.

It ends at 23:30 local time.

From their website:

http://sportitalia.com/?action=read&idnotizia=96118

Upon completion of the weigh in recent hours, is all set to Palaruffini of Turin for the 'One Night Boxing' license plate Mario Loreni. An evening with two matches titled, preceded by the return to the ring of Max Ballisai. Live from 21.30 on Sportitalia 2, with commentary by Fabio Panchetti.


It was scheduled for 21:30-23:30, and should be almost halfway in by now.



Instead we get...volleyball. :!:

 

The frustrating part is that on sister channel SportItalia24 (all news all the time) you can see the monitors in their studio plainly showing the card behind the anchor, over her left shoulder.

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:twisted:

I'd almost consider maximizing the window and squinting to watch it that way, but they keep cutting away from the studio for random highlights of basketball and stuff.


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The card is over!

Results below in spoiler-proof format, in case there is indeed a tape-delayed airing at 5:30pm EST...

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