Ermano Fegatilli (born 19 August 1984) is a Netherlands-based Italian boxer. He is the former

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champion.

Personal life

Fegatilli holds a master's degree in Economics with the highest honours from Liège University, making him arguably the ''cleverest boxer in the world''. Hence his nickname ''Il Dottore''. Fegatilli combines work and boxing and is currently a full-time employee as a healthcare project consultant at the Möbius Business Redesign.

Boxing career

Amateur career

Fegatilli's amateur career was a rather short one, finishing at 25-2-2 and becoming Belgian champ in four consecutive years since 2001.

Professional career

Fegatilli started his professional career in 2005. He is the Belgian Champion since 2008. In May 2007 he won the

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(EBU-EU)

title against Italian champion Antonio De Vitis. Fegatilli is ranked #9 by the WBC. and is therefore official title challenger for both the WBC and WBA world titles. Fegatilli is being promoted by GMG Boxing Promotion and managed by Mirco Giuliani. His trainers are Martin Jansen (head trainer/coach and cutman), Sandro Menconi (co-trainer), Urbano Giuliani and Dimitrios Mevroudis.

Winning the EBU Super Featherweight Championship

On 26 February 2011 Fegatilli won the EBU Super Featherweight Title by beating Stephen Foster Jr., 30, in the Premier Suite at Bolton’s

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. This was Fegatilli's biggest win to date. Foster Jr. was knocked down a total of five times yet lasted to the final bell. Relatively unknown and a 13-2 underdog before this fight, ''Il Dottore'' surprised many with the result. Final scores were 140-110 and 114-109 twice, making Fegatilli the winner by unanimous decision. Foster was knocked down once in round nine, three times in round 10 and once more in round 11. Foster Jr. gave a good account of himself in the first seven rounds but Fegatilli's consistent body attack and high workrate proved to be too much for Foster Jr, who had stopped

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in three rounds in October 2010.

First title defense

Fegatilli was set to make a voluntary defense of his European title against tough Frenchmen and EBU-EU

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champion Karim Chakim in October but French promoter Gilbert Tesseron cancelled the fight just four days before it was to take place because of financial reasons. Ermano defended his EBU title on 25 February against Italian Antonio De Vitis in the latter one's hometown of

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. Fegatilli remained on the attack in a technically thrilling bout. A cut on the head of De Vitis caused a stoppage in round 6. Fegatilli won a close-but-clear majority decision.

Non-title fight

Because of the cancellation of the fight against Chakim Fegatilli's management was forced to organize a bout to keep Ermano's high world rank spot secured. On 23 December 2011 Fegatilli faced Dutch-Nigerian boxer Innocent Anyanwu in Liege, Belgium. Ermano won the fight by unanimous decision.

Losing his title

On 21 July 2012 Fegatilli lost his title in a close and questionable decision to Italy's Devis Boschiero. The fight was very close and entertaining to watch but on the scorecards but all three judges scored the contest for the local challenger Boschiero. Many people protested for a rematch.

Comeback

On 28 September 2012 Fegatilli returned home to

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to face journeyman Michael Isaac Carrero. He dominated the overmatched Michael Carrero over eight rounds quite clearly winning a near-shutout Unanimous Decision.

Karim Chakim trilogy

On 29 March 2013 Ermano Fegatilli once again fought at the Topsportal - This time with vengeance in mind. In a trilogy fight with past rival Karim Chakim, Ermano Fegatilli fought past the French veteran in a highly impressive 80-72 victory. This fight sparked him back into Super Featherweight title contention.

Professional boxing record

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References

External links

Official website of Ermano FegatilliErmano Fegatilli's boxing record
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