Gianluca Branco

Gianluca Branco
Data
Birth Name	Gianluca Branco
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	Italian
birthday	20th September 1970
place of birth	Civitavecchia
style	Left delivery
size	168 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	53
Victories	49
Knockout victories	24
Defeats	3
draw	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Gianluca Branco (* 20th September 1970 in Civitavecchia ) is an Italian professional boxer in the welterweight division . He is the younger brother of the boxing world champion Silvio Branco .

Career

Gianluca Branco started professional boxing in 1995 at the age of 24 and remained undefeated in 33 fights. He was Italian champion, intercontinental champion of the WBU and European champion of the EBU in the light welterweight division. In 2004 he lost the fight for the WBC World Championship against Arturo Gatti . In 2006 he lost a WBO world championship fight against Miguel Cotto .

After he had become European light welterweight champion again, he tried to win the welterweight title, but failed because of Matthew Hatton . He finally won the European welterweight belt in November 2014.

successes

• February 1997; Intercontinental champion of the WBU by beating Lajos Nagy
• May 1997; Italian champion by beating Francesco Cioffi, defending titles against Antonio Strabello and Massimo Bertozzi
• June 2001; EBU European Champion by beating Gabriel Mapouka, defending his title against George Cramne and Allan Vester
• January 2004; WBC World Cup challenger against Arturo Gatti , point defeat
• March 2006; WBO world championship challenger against Miguel Cotto , TKO defeat
• May 2008; EBU European Champion by defeating Colin Lynes, defending his title against Juho Tolppola
• November 2012; EBU EU champion by beating Krzysztof Bienias, defending his title against Łukasz Maciec
• November 2014; EBU European Champion by defeating Rafał Jackiewicz

Web links

• BoxRec