Roberto Cocco: "Shark is a boxer with very heavy hands and clean boxing"

Roberto Cocco: "Shark is a boxer with very heavy hands and clean boxing"

Italian Roberto Cocco "El Martillo" will be the rival of Robert Hilario "Shark" in the evening of the European Boxing Championship. At stake will be the European Union champion belt of the "super middleweight" division. Cocco arrives in Lanzarote with the intention of snatching the belt from the Lanzarote native "Shark"

May 30 2014 (23:38 WEST)
Roberto Cocco: Tiburón is a boxer with very heavy hands and clean boxing
Roberto Cocco: Tiburón is a boxer with very heavy hands and clean boxing

Italian Roberto Cocco, Robert Hilario's "Shark" rival on Saturday night, is already resting in Lanzarote. The boxer arrived at noon this Thursday in Lanzarote, ready to make things difficult for the current European Union champion of the "super middleweight" division. He has studied his rival, knows his weaknesses and is coming to Lanzarote for everything. Tomorrow will be the first time he will face Robert Hilario "Shark", and he will do so at the official weigh-in of the boxing evening that will take place at the Blue Sea Costa Teguise Gadens hotel.

Roberto Cocco, Italian Super Middleweight champion, is already prepared to face the European Union Championship that Robert Hilario "Shark" will defend this coming Saturday at the Teguise Municipal Pavilion. Roberto Cocco defines himself as a fighting boxer who "always wants to improve", as he told the press department of the European Union Championship, upon his arrival in Lanzarote. 

"Right now I am very prepared and I want to show my skills in Spain", confesses the Turin native, who arrives in his best moment after winning his last fight last March against Ivan Stupalo. "Stupalo was a fight to test myself and it came by chance, although it went very well for me. In any case, Stupalo and Shark are not comparable, they are two completely different ways of boxing", points out the transalpine boxer. 

About Robert Hilario he comments "he is a boxer with very heavy hands and clean boxing, we have studied him through the fights we have seen on the internet" and points out about his preparation that "I have taken care of myself more than ever, we have paid attention to all the physical and tactical-technical aspects of Robert Hilario", but he points out, "The theory has worked well, now we will see the practice". 

The fight where the European Union Title will be at stake will be the last of those that can be seen next Saturday and, for sure, it will be a fight that will not disappoint anyone due to the level of both contenders. Before the stellar fight of the night, fans will have the opportunity to enjoy five Olympic fights and two professional fights. 

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