Giuseppe Lauri

Giuseppe Lauri
Statistics
Nickname(s)	The End
Rated at	Light-welterweight Welterweight Light-middleweight
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Reach	170 cm (67 in)
Nationality	Italian
Born	28 May 1976 Tradate, Varese, Lombardy, Italy
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	73
Wins	55
Wins by KO	33
Losses	18

Giuseppe Lauri (born 28 May 1976) is an Italian professional boxer. A two-decade veteran of the sport, he is a former European Union super-lightweight champion and has challenged four times for the European super-lightweight title.^[1]

Professional career

Lauri made his professional debut on 20 December 1997, scoring a first-round stoppage over Frederic Rafhey, who also debuted.^[1] Fighting mainly in Switzerland and Italy throughout the next decade, Lauri also travelled to the UK in losing efforts against future world champions Ricky Hatton and Junior Witter.^[2] On 22 September 2006, Lauri fought for his first major regional championship—the vacant European super-lightweight title—but lost a unanimous decision to Ted Bami. In a rematch with Bami on 30 March 2007, with the same title on the line, Lauri lost again via unanimous decision.^[3]

Lauri became the European Union super-lightweight champion on 21 September 2007, stopping Michele di Rocco in seven rounds. They, too, would have a rematch many years later on 14 April 2012. In this fight, which had the now-vacant European Union super-lightweight title on the line, di Rocco stopped Lauri in the first round.^[4] During his reign as European Union champion, Lauri would score wins over contenders Peter McDonagh, Ville Piispanen and Juho Tolppola. The fight against Tolppola, on 30 May 2009, ended in a highly controversial manner when Tolppola was first disqualified after ten rounds due to repeated fouls, after which his father stormed the ring and punched the referee.^[5]

Further unsuccessful challenges for the European super-lightweight title came against Paul McCloskey on 11 June 2010^[6] and Denis Shafikov on 23 September 2011,^[7] both via stoppage. Beginning from the rematch with di Rocco, Lauri would suffer a seven-fight losing streak which was finally ended on 24 May 2014, with a second-round stoppage win over Lajos Bimbo.

Professional boxing record

Titles in boxing

References

1. Professional boxing record for Giuseppe Lauri from BoxRec. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
2. Carey, Ben (November 2002). "Witter destroys Lauri and sends out warning to Hatton". SecondsOut Boxing. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
3. Slater, James (March 2007). "Bami Retains European Crown/Hunters Returns". SecondsOut Boxing. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
4. Sukachev, Alexey (14 April 2012). "Di Rocco Destroys Lauri in Rematch, Boschiero Wins". BoxingScene. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
5. "Juho Tolppolan isä kävi tuomariin käsiksi tappio-ottelun lopuksi!" (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. Sanoma. 30 May 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
6. "Paul McCloskey beats Giuseppe Lauri in Euro title bout". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
7. Persson, Per Ake (23 September 2011). "Denis Shafikov Stops Giuseppe Lauri, Wins EBU Belt". BoxingScene. Retrieved 21 March 2016.