Let’s add some Italian boxing style to our Guide! Capiche? This time we went to Italy and the Head coach Giuni Ligabue himself explain us the foundations of the club and the experience they provide to their athletes during their trainings. If you happen to go Bologna, Italy, and want to training there, this is one address to keep in mind! Dive in!
“Boxe Tpo is a small and young boxing club in Bologna Italy, it represents the boxing team of a multi-functional sport association called Hic Sunt Leones, situated inside the Tpo historical social center.”
“This multi-functional sport structure, born in 2010, is first of all involved in social projects around the city of Bologna giving opportunities to unlucky guys and girls through the practice of boxing and other sports in general. The club is actually involved in the promotion of health sport, integration of minorities and anti-racism.”
“The boxing club starts his competitive activity in 2014 and reached in few years important targets despite the difficult situation due to a non-profit and complete self-managed system. Actually, Boxe Tpo is high positioned in the FPI (Italian Boxing Federation) rankings at regional and national level.”
“Our boxing style looks to discover, develop and improve technical and tactical skills, also comparing to other boxing attitudes, traditions and schools. During years Boxe Tpo built built strong relationships with Cuba where head coach Giuni Ligabue trained together with his girlfriend and boxer Chiara Gregoris, sharing experiences with great coaches like Hector Vinent Charon (two times Olympic Gold Medal and three times World Champion) and Angel Moya (World Champion). At the end of that experience Giuni and Chiara published a documentary film and a book over the Cuban Boxing School and the history of boxing in Cuba (Pugni e Socialismo, Red Star Press 2015). Later on, international relationships were built with Brazil, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Spain.
During years the prestige of Boxe Tpo grew up in the city of Bologna with the organization of important high-level boxing events, making more than 4000 people fall in love with boxing, in a territory where the passion that our sport deserves was falling down since years and years.
During years the prestige of Boxe Tpo grew up in the city of Bologna with the organization of important high-level boxing events, making more than 4000 people fall in love with boxing, in a territory where the passion that our sport deserves was falling down since years and years.
At the moment, between the others, the head coach Giuni Ligabue, the athletic coach Matteo Zuffranieri, the other coaches Cristiano “Monzon” Merini and Mino Zigrino and the whole club believe especially in three boxers: Chiara Gregoris (actually Italian Absolute Bronze Medal 2019, Italian Elite II Champion 2019, Gold Medal in the Haringey Box Cup 2019 in London, Silver Medal in the Women Winter Box Cup 2018 in Manchester, n’3 in FPI Female 48 kgs ranking and selected for the National Interest Athletes List; Dionis Hoznas a welter weight from Moldavia with a huge amateur career, turnig professional this year and Oumar Camara, brilliant superlight weight amateur elite prospect from Ivory Coast with a wonderful story of immigration and integration that make all of us proud of him.
The gym is open every day in the afternoon and in the evening, at the moment we are often changing the timetables because of the hard situation caused by Covid 19. But we are sure to restart stronger than before.”
