Where is Italian Boxing? Top 3 Italian prospects for 2021

They're too busy making prosciutto.

 

They are too busy chasing gorgeous Italian ladies.

 

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... Too busy driving awesome cars

 

ciao cugino. over here in the US we have vito mielnicki (3/4th italian 1/4 polish) and Sonny Conto

 

Were there Italian greats? I know the Italian/Americans but none that were actually from Italy.

 

good fighters like vito antuofermo but no not "great"

 

Nino Benvenuti
Duilio Loi
Bruno Arcari
Sandro Mazzinghi
Salvatore Burruni

Gotta let Italy have Sumbu Kalambay as well seeing as he was raised and learned to box there

 

Francesco Damiani.

Yeah, I said it.

Primo Carnera.

 

Mah ... gli Italiani son troppo belli. Ora che l'economia va bene, non c'e piu ragione a rovinare il viso a suon di pugni ...

 

Matchroom launched in Italy last year and I definitely think having a promoter putting on regular events like that will help grow the sport. The biggest issue from the last is the sport has moved on and many countries Italy included have been left behind from a training standpoint.
The main reason for this is lack of funding by the government in grassroots boxing. It’s the reason UK, and many of the Eastern European countries produce a lot of tip level fighters for the size of the country.

 

Wasn't Sumbu a product of the local amateur system in the Belgian Congo/Zaire?

 

Yeah, Young Corbett III and Dullio Loi are both greats from Italy. Italy has quite a weak collection of great fighters compared to Italian-Americans.

 

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