Angelo Musone

Angelo Musone (born September 19, 1963 in Naples ) is a former Italian boxer . Musone was a bronze medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games .

Career

amateur

1982 Musone was Italian junior champion (U19) in the heavyweight division (+81 kg), but did not get past the quarter-finals at the European Junior Championships.

At the Mediterranean Games in 1983 he took second place in the newly established super heavyweight (+91 kg) and third place at the World Cup in Rome in the same year . The following year Musone took part in the Olympic Games for Italy and surprisingly reached the semi-finals after victories over James Omondi, Kenya (5: 0), Marvin Perez, Bolivia ( where ), and Hakan Brock, Sweden (5: 0), but which he lost to the eventual Olympic champion Henry Tillman , USA 5-0) and thus won the Olympic bronze medal.

professional

In the same year Musone switched to professional business and made his professional debut on October 13, 1984 against the Congolese Lutshadi Mudimbi, which he won by knockout in the 5th round. By 1987 he remained undefeated in 20 fights, including u. a. Leon Spinks was knocked out in the 7th round before he was knocked out by Steve Mormino in the 6th round in his 21st fight and then ended his career.

Later Musone worked as a point and referee for the IBF .