ROMA – From zero to eighteen. From zero to 243 thousand. From zero to a lot, perhaps ‘to everything’, including punches, social media, gossip, graffiti, dance, cinema. Daniele Scardina he is the Italian boxer who is the most talked about. The Palalido of Milan with him is once again sold out. It will not be so on Friday 26 February, when he will fight against the Spanish Cesar Nunez for the European Union of supermediums, one of the many ‘interlocutors’ titles in the jagged – too – boxing scene, but useful for climbing the international rankings. Closed doors, like everywhere: “A problem for me, I get energy from the cheering, from the warmth of the audience, I will have to ask the Dazn staff (who will broadcast the match, ed) to make as much noise as possible”. The audience and his rapper friends, Guè Pequeno, Fedez, Luché, Marracash will be missing: ” They often came to visit me in the United States. I like rap, with them I have in common the fact of fighting for a dream ”. All because of Covid, to which he also tested positive last summer: “Zero symptoms, but it’s a disease that everyone can catch. Maybe on vacation I let my guard down, but it’s hard to respect all the limitations. People need to live “.
Childhood in Rozzano
Unhinged, from zero to … Departure from Rozzano, Milanese hinterland: ” An eventful childhood, like a suburban boy. Always on the street, often also messing around. All settled anyway. ” The father has a flower shop, the mother works in a cleaning company, short idyll: ” They separated when I was ten and I lived through the trauma. Grandparents were fundamental, unfortunately I lost my grandfather last June ”.
The American dream
He speaks from Miami, the theater of his American dream: ” In Italy I worked as an amateur in a distracted way, then with my brother I came to the United States. At the beginning, no one spins and you have to make your way. I was a bouncer, a mover, I made do ”. He trains in the legendary 5th Street Gym, the gym where Angelo Dundee took care of the details of Muhammad Ali: ” Here is the real boxing: technique, physique, power. Obviously the premises are renovated, but there is a retro magic, there is a different air. Every sparring session is a war, this is where I study to become world champion ”. Anyway, half emigrant: ” I’m very Italian. A derby with Giovanni De Carolis (former world champion, ed) if he will soon win the European title? But because we have to slaughter each other, we join forces to take the world. However, if something historical comes out, we can talk about it ”.
The victories as a professional
From zero to eighteen. Like his victories as a professional: ” The first match in a Santo Domingo prison called La Vittoria. They looked at me as if they wanted to cut my skin. Then they broke up, I even became friends with some inmates, when I fight I get messages of encouragement ”. Between ring and gossip, the story (over) with Diletta Leotta, the beautiful presenter of Dazn, filled the pages of the magazines: “It didn’t bother me that there was so much talk about it, even though I would clearly like to mention the boxer Scardina”.
Social and tattoos
From zero to 243 thousand, like his followers on Instagram. Being social is almost more important than being strong in the ring. I make sacrifices to win popularity, it’s right that I enjoy some aspects of it. Boxing is also good for youtubers like Logan Paul (a match against rapper KSI filled the Staples Center in Los Angeles, ed) who try their hand at our discipline, it’s good Tyson returning at 54 and maybe it reawakens the attention of those who had lost interest. In short, we live in a show that needs to be fed ”. Also for this reason he did not disdain participation in ‘Dancing with the Stars’, where by the way he reached the semifinals: “I had a lot of fun, I met fantastic people”. And the TV could be the antechamber of the cinema: ” I’d like to be an actor. Kind? King Toretto, my alias when I fight, is inspired by Fast and Furious. But even a Marvel movie wouldn’t be bad … ”.
A whole show, even the myriad of tattoos: ” The first one I did on the leg, represents a Maori warrior. The most important? The words ‘humility’ and ‘My Lord’. My Lord. I am very religious, for me God is fundamental, he is everything, he is the source of life ”. It unhinges from zero to much, perhaps ‘to everything’.
The meeting on DAZN. The Palalido evening will be broadcast live and in on demand mode in over 200 territories. Connection starting at 7.15 pm, over four hours of live coverage, commentary entrusted to the couple formed by Niccolò Pavesi and the former WBU world champion and European welterweight champion Alessandro Duran.
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