Giovanni De Carolis, WBA super middleweight world champion but a good boy above all.
De Carolis, a 32 years old Italian boxer is - since 9 January 2016 - WBA super middleweight world champion.
He won the title beating Vincent Feigenbutz, thus becoming the 35th Italian boxer to gain a world title, seven years after Giacobbe Fragomeni.
De Carolis - born on 21 August 1984 in Rome - does not come from "the street" as the stereotype dictates - bur from an ordinary Italian family: his father an architect, his mother an art history teacher, an apartment in a suburb of Rome.
When he turned 18, De Carolis enrolled in the faculty of architecture in Rome, waiting tables at night. For a while, he also worked in a building supplies depot. He left school after obtaining several credits for the boxe and his children, Noah (7) and Erin (3).
In 2008, De Carolis and his wife Veronica took over the management of a gym in a low-income area, and in 2014 they open their own gym "Nexta Monterosi", outside Viterbo, where they live.
Since both his instructors (IM LA) teach at the Team Boxe XI in Rome, De Carolis travels over 100km to train. His manager, Davide Buccione, is a lawyer and owns three businesses in Rome.
De Carolis (began his professional career as a middleweight in November 2003, age 23 when he won the match by a technical knock out in the second round. In 2009, he fought in the super middleweight class winning a number of matches by KO and by points.
Following a brief parenthesis in the middleweight class, in January 2012 De Carolis defeated the Spanish boxer Blas Miguel Martinez, a.k.a. "El Colorin", and won the Mediterranean Champion title, WBC version, with a firm KO in the third round. Once he won the title, he won most of the following matches.
In 2014, he fought for the vacant Intercontinental IBF title against the Serbian Geard Ajetovic, whom De
In September 2015, De Carolis lost the Intercontinental IBF to the German Vincent Feigenbutz, who won tightly by points. De Carolis regained the title on 9 January at the Baden Arena in Offenburg, Germany at the end of a hard-fought match. De Carolis pounds Feigenbutz throughout the second half and - in the 11th round - delivers a series of punches that make his adversary stagger, followed by even more punches to which his adversary is unable to react. At this point, the referee declares the match over by technical knock out.