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A team of Italian artists, led by Carmine Di Giandomenico, Francesco Colafella, and Maestro Tanino Liberatore, has come together to tell the story of legendary boxer Rocky Marciano in a work that blends comic book and biography, offering a fresh perspective on his extraordinary career. Born on September 1, 1923, in Brockton, Massachusetts, Rocco Fr...

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Rino Tommasi, a true monument of Italian sports journalism, passed away on January 8. The great Rino, born 90 years ago in Verona, was for decades the most famous voice and television face of boxing and tennis matches. He was a living encyclopedia, in the days when the Internet and Wikipedia did not exist he could recount by heart anecdotes, data,...

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Get ready to rumble, San Diego! Our beloved Little Italy is about to transform into a boxing ring for one electrifying night. The second annual Punches in Little Italy amateur boxing showcase, set to honor the legacy of Bobby DePhilippis, will light up Washington Elementary. Bobby DePhilippis was the heart and soul of Little Italy. If you’ve ever s...

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After a brief-but-stellar career in prizefighting, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini has found satisfaction and success as a movie producer, winemaker, philanthropist and family man as well as Youngstown, Ohio’s, biggest booster. The world knows Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini as the formidable boxer with the charming personality who became a World Boxing Associatio...

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At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Italy stunned the world by winning 40 medals, a record for the Azzurri since they have been participating in the Olympics. Above all, it amazed with its five victories in athletics, the queen of Olympic sports. From July 26, in Paris, for the third time in history, athletes fr...

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Jonathan Di Bella looks to reclaim the vacant ONE strawweight kickboxing world championship when he returns on June 28. The champion has produced some great performances under the ONE Championship banner and as a result, he feels the love from his fans. When Di Bella steps inside the Circle, he chooses to represent both his Italian and Canadian bac...

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Sylvester Stallone will be outside the Philadelphia Museum Art for the grand opening of the new Rocky Shop and to declare Dec. 3 "Rocky Day" in the city this weekend. Rocky himself will be at the event at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Parkway Visitor Center, which sits adjacent to Eakins Oval near the museum. The grand opening event, hosted by the Visitor...

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Reigning and undisputed ONE strawweight kickboxing world champion Jonathan Di Bella is proud of his Italian heritage, and he wants to return to his motherland to show off his new gold hardware. Di Bella captured the highly coveted ONE Championship gold in October of last year, and has become one of the most prominent Italian fighters in the promoti...

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Tragically, as surely all fight fans know, the great Rocky Marciano lost his life at the young age of just 45, this on this day back in 1969. Perishing in a plane crash, Rocky died the day before what would have been his 46th birthday. Indeed, it was 100 hundred years ago today, September 1st, when the man plenty of historians say deserves to be ra...

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Joe Tiberi, one of the top boxers in Delaware history, was among nine athletes inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum & Hall of Fame, and honored at the state’s premier sports banquet on May 18 in Wilmington. Joe Tiberi had an amateur boxing record of 44-4-2 with 31 knockouts, followed by a professional record of 18-5-2 with 13 knockouts during t...

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