Co-headlining a Matchroom card on DAZN at the Allianz Cloud Arena in Milan on Friday. The vacant WBO intercontinental lightweight title will be on the line. Both men have been European champions, each with a reign lasting a few defenses, in adjacent divisions (Boschiero at super feather, and Patera several years later at 135lbs, first losing it on his first attempted defense in a rematch against the man he claimed it from, Edis Tatli, before regaining it against Lewis Ritson upon Tatli vacating to embark upon his doomed challenge of Teo López). Patera, with a twelve year age advantage and four inches of height on Boschiero, will be making his fourth consecutive appearance at this venue in his home away from home (the Belgian-born fighter is more than half Italian; his father being F.B.I. and his mom with Sardinian and Abbruzzesse ancestry) but will likely not be the fan favorite. The gritty and high-workrate overachiever "Boom Boom" Boschiero is well loved domestically. The pair were supposed to meet twice already - first last December, and then in April when Boschiero got Covid-19.
Oddsmakers agree with you, putting Patera between a 1/5 and 1/9 fave at various sites. Guess that is the difference between being 28 and "a-pretty good-a" and 40 and "a-pretty good-a"
Ohhhh, okay, suddenly, conveniently, we don't rate mediocre feather-fisted dudes who are Italian-blooded but residing in other European countries, with the first name Francesco and last names starting with "P" and ending with "a"...unless they're facing your boy Tyson Fury, then we rate them just fine.
