Milano Thunder WSB Squad Takes Shape

An informal but very important gathering brought to life the Milano Thunder Boxing Team last week, when the majority of the squad arrived in Milan for the first rendez-vous of the new-born Italian team.

The busy schedule included contract signings for the team's international boxers, a visit to the gym that will be Milano Thunder's home and a presentation to the franchise owners, partners and staff.

The boxing squad present comprised national bantamweights (54kg) Vincenzo Picardi and Vittorio Parrinello, lightweights (61kg) Domenico Valentino and Enkhzorig Zorigtbaatar (Mongolia), Italian middleweights (73kg) Luca Podda and Diego Di Luisa, light heavyweights (85kg) Nikolajs Grisunins (Latvia), Bosko Draskovic (Montenegro) and Entoni Juric (Croatia), as well as Bosnian heavyweight (+91kg) Damir Beljo. Head coach Francesco Damiani and some members of the medical staff also joined the gathering.

Five boxers were unable to make the meeting due to prior commitments: Benjey Zimmerman from Netherlands Antilles, Sergyi Derevyanchenko and Vitalyi Volkov from Ukraine,  Madadi Nagzibekov from Tajikistan, and Italy's own Clemente Russo.

During the two-day meeting Milano Thunder had the privilege to add another important member to its team, signing the highly regarded Ukrainian coach Sergiy Korchinskyy, who will coach the two Ukrainian boxers Derevyanchenko and Volkov in their first WSB season in Milan.

The meeting marked an important milestone on the Milan team's road to the first match of the first-ever WSB season, when the team will face Paris at home on the weekend of 19/20th November.

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