The unbeaten Italian boxer in Frisco had to face Austin Williams to aim for the crown of IBF medium weights. No matches and emergency operation
Mazzato on the embarked Etinosa Oliha and on the world boxing hopes of Italian boxing. The semifinal for the world title of medium IBF weights scheduled scheduled for Saturday night in Frisco, in the United States against the landlord Austin Williams (18-1), skip a few days after the match. Today during the 27 -year -old Italian boxing medical visits of Nigerian origins, an injury to the retina of the left eye was found. He has not been given authorization to fight and will be an urgent one. Rehabilitation times planned at least two weeks.
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“Unfortunately bad news – says his coach Davide Greguoldo, of the Skull boxing Canavesana of Asti – Eti has a problem with the retina of the left eye. They operate it at the laser directly in the United States this morning. So he will not be able to fight, the match jumps and will be reprogrammed”. A real cold shower for the average weight with 21 wins, 9 for Ko, world champion Ibo, for some seasons stationed in Germany with the Agon Sports. It is the number 2 from the IBF ranking, 7 WBC, 14 of the WBO and if he had won he would have become the official challenger of the Ibf champion and WBO JanniBek Alimkhanuly (Kazakhstan). “No warning of the lesion. We arrived here in the United States in place – continues Greguoldo – Etinosa also made an excellent sparring in these days, we were really well prepared. At the first eye control they did not find it. In the second when they put the drops, this thing came out. The doctor said he had already seen such an injury in another fight, the boxer did not want to operate and lost his eye. And he took responsibility for operating ETI.