Giuseppe Lauri
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Giuseppe Lauri (born 28 May 1976) is an Italian
professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...
. A veteran of the sport for more than two decades, he held the
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title from 2007 to 2010, and has challenged four times for the
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super-lightweight title.


Professional career

Lauri made his professional debut on 20 December 1997, scoring a first-round stoppage over Frederic Rafhey, who also debuted. Fighting mainly in Switzerland and Italy throughout the next decade, Lauri also travelled to the UK in losing efforts against future world champions
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. On 22 September 2006, Lauri fought for his first major regional championship—the vacant
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title—but lost a
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to
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. In a rematch with Bami on 30 March 2007, with the same title on the line, Lauri lost again via unanimous decision. Lauri became the
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super-lightweight champion on 21 September 2007, stopping
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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. During his reign as European Union champion, Lauri would score wins over contenders
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. 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. Further unsuccessful challenges for the European super-lightweight title came against
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on 11 June 2010 and
Denis Shafikov Denis Fuatovich Shafikov (russian: Денис Фуатович Шафиков, ba, Шафиҡов Денис Фуат улы, Şafiqov Denis Fuat ulı; born 3 June 1985) is a Russian professional boxer. He held the European super-lightweight tit ...
on 23 September 2011,Persson, Per Ake (23 September 2011)
"Denis Shafikov Stops Giuseppe Lauri, Wins EBU Belt"
BoxingScene. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
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


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauri Giuseppe Italian male boxers Light-welterweight boxers Welterweight boxers Light-middleweight boxers 1976 births Sportspeople from Varese Living people Middleweight boxers