Boxing: Magnesi challenges Contreras for the Ibo world championship

Covid, end of the state of emergency but still skepticism from Rome (ANSA)

(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 01 – The great Boxing PRO is ready to put on a show on Saturday 9 April with the IBO Superfeatherweight World Championship between the champion Michael ‘Lone Wolf’ Magnesi and the challenger, the Mexican Dennis Contreras. A defense of great stature, which will be played in the ring of the PalaSport of Civitavecchia, for a great return of PRO boxing on Discovery, which will broadcast the entire event on the discovery + platform (discoveryplus.it) starting at 20, and live on TV. on Eurosport 2 (Sky channel 211, Dazn) starting at 10pm. Two belts up for grabs in the boxing event that is heading towards sold-out, organized by the BBT Boxing Team and by A&B Events, in collaboration and with the contribution of the Federation Italian boxing and its artmediasport advisor and with the patronage of the Municipality of Civitavecchia. In the spotlight there will not be only the world challenge between the undefeated Magnesi, ‘Fighter’ from Cave, who boasts 20 victories, and the former FedeCentro WBA Champion of the Piuma Contreras, with 22 wins by knockout out of 24 total successes, but to enrich the event will also be the match valid for the IBO Youth world belt of the Leggeri between the Tarquinese Christian Gasparri (7v) and the Colombian Santiago Garces (4v3s). An evening of technical, organizational and media level, oriented to maximum synergy and which relaunches the Italy of boxing gloves thanks to the talented Magnesi, 36 / o Italian boxer who won a world title in 2020 in Fondi. “I am extremely satisfied with the agreement with Eurosport, reached by virtue of the synergistic work between FPI and Artmediasport – says the president of FPI, Flavio D’Ambrosi – thanks to which after three years PRO boxing will be broadcast again on the frequencies of one of the the most important sports channels in Europe. The FPI is focusing on a group of promising boxers to reconstruct the passions, qualities and identities of the national boxing movement. I hope that all this will lead, over time, to a return to the glories of the past “.

The other six undercard matches were also spectacular and exciting. (HANDLE).

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