Guido Vianello back in Rome. Malagò: “With him, Italian boxing will be great again”

Presented in Rome, at Coni, the boxing event organized by OPI Since 82 in collaboration with Top Rank, scheduled for Friday 28 October at the Atlantic in Rome and broadcast live on Mola TV in Italy and ESPN + in the United States. The protagonist is the Italian heavyweight Guido Vianello, who in the main event will challenge the Scottish Jay McFarlane. Sporting and institutional partners of the event CONI, in the figure of President Giovanni Malagò, and the Italian Boxing Federation, represented by President Flavio D’Ambrosi. Around the iconic Work Table, during today’s press conference, there was talk of sport and boxing. “It is a great opportunity for growth for the entire Italian boxing sector, amateur and professional, the Federation will always be present to support these events”, these are the words of FPI President Flavio D’Ambrosi.

Malagò: “Italian boxing must be great again”

“We are proud that Guido Vianello is back to fight in Italy, I hope it will be the first of a long series of boxing events in the city of Rome to make Italian boxing great again” said CONI president Giovanni Malagò. Bringing Italian boxing back to the top: this is the mission of OPI Since 82, represented by Salvatore and Alessandro Cherchi, in collaboration with Top Rank, one of the world’s leading boxing promotions, and with Mola Italia, an emerging streaming & on-line platform. demand. A synergy of intentions that aims to develop the combat sports market in Italy, with high-quality events such as the October 28th card, which includes three titles up for grabs out of seven professional boxing matches. “There was a lot of work to bring Guido back to Italy”, Alessandro Cherchi commented “especially in the figure of my brother Christian Cherchi, who managed to maintain solid relationships with promotions such as Top Rank to give life to this project”.

A meeting full of interesting matches

Present some of the boxers of the main card: Guido Vianello, the maximum weight number 1 in Italy; Mirko Natalizi, WBC Silver International superwelter champion; Stephanie Silva, European superfly weight champion; Francesco Russo, co-challenger to the Italian superwelter weight title; Francesco Faraoni, middleweight on his debut among professionals. To support the athletes directly involved in the ring on October 28th also Giovanni De Carolis, former WBA super middleweight world champion, and Orial Kolaj, European Union champion in light heavyweight. Tickets for the event on Friday 28 October are on sale on the website www.boxol.it and are available in three different price ranges: € 70.00 for the VIP area, € 50.00 for the numbered parterre, 30, 00 € for the unnumbered balcony