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Giovedì 22 gennaio, Floriano Pagliara ha realizzato uno dei suoi sogni: all'incontro di boxe tenutosi al Webster Hall, "l'italiano" (così lo chiamano qui a NYC) ha sconfitto Antwan Robertson conquistando così il titolo di campione Wbu.   Con la gioia e l'entusiasmo della vittoria ancora in gola, ha chiesto a Stefania di raggiungerlo sul ring...

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By Gerardo Granados I am a big fan of the middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta, his inside the ring fighting style and on times troubled life outside the ring, are impossible for me to not to follow.   Maybe there a couple of young fight fans who don't know him, perhaps the reader is thinking to skip the article, possibly the older fight fans...

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6pmThe Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini(2012), 90 min. - Jesse James Miller, dir.   Youngstown, Ohio, native Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini made his professional boxing debut in 1979. His father Lenny had been a top-ranked contender who lost his best chance at a championship when he was drafted into Wor...

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by Italian American Club of Las Vegas   Ray Boom Boom Mancini exceeded all expectations. Almost 100 people, including Ray's wife and two sons, other boxers and members of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, 10 people from the Arizona American Italian Club, Federated Italo Americano, Sons of Italy and the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club,...

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100 years after winning the Bantamweight Boxing World Championship, Pete Herman might be the greatest athlete in local history, that many New Orleanians have never heard of. "After a few years, people forget about things like that," Pete Herman's grandson Ralph Marshall said. "But back then, 50 to 100 years back, everybody knew who he was." &...

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Long before "Rocky Balboa" and Sylvester Stallone of "Rocky" fame, there was a long list of Italian Americans in boxing, including a few from Connecticut. The three "local" guys, Middletown native and Hartford hero Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as "Willie Pep," Bridgeport's Luigi Buccassi, professionally known as "Lou Bogash" and Hartford's...

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On June 21, 2015 Gleason's Gym celebrates the influence boxing has on Italians and Italian-Americans from the 1900s to today. It was in 1937 that Peter Robert Gagliardi decided to open up a boxing gym that would later create history. Because he lived in a predominantly Irish area of New York, Gagliardi changed his name to Bobby Gleason to gain...

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by Dave McNaryJeremy Renner will star in a biopic about boxer Rocky Marciano. "Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story" is produced by Morris S. Levy, and written by Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. Levy is seeking a director. His Mega Films own the rights to the life story, as told by his younger brother Lou Marciano.   "Undefeated: T...

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Veteran boxing manager John Seip has signed highly decorated Italian amateur boxer Daniele Marco Scardina to an exclusive managerial contract. Seip is best known for guiding Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin to the World Boxing Organization (WBO) world middleweight title. The native New Yorker also manages rising British super middleweight Steed "...

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By Niccolò Graffio "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." — Jack Dempsey During the time our people have spent living here in America, a number of figures, both real and imagined, have risen from our ranks to achieve icon status.   These figures in turn helped to inspire future generations, either for good or bad. Of all of the...

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