Dino Spencer: “Daniele Scardina sparred with Golovkin. He will beat Giovanni De Carolis”
On May 13, at Allianz Cloud in Milan, Italy, Opi Since 82-Matchroom-DAZN will promote a major card with a tripleheader.
In the main event WBO Intercontinental super middleweight champion Daniele Scardina (20-0 with 16 KOs) will defend against former WBA World champ Giovanni De Carolis (29-10-1 with 13 KOs), while European super bantamweight champion Mary Romero (7-2-2 with 2 KOs) defends against former Italian champion Maria Cecchi (6-0 with 1 KO), and Vincenzo La Femina (10-0 with 5 KOs) and Matteo Lecca (9-2 with 4 KOs) will fight for the vacant Italian super bantamweight title.
DAZN will stream the show live and later on-demand. The right person to talk about the Scardina-De Carolis fight – which is regarded as a superfight in Italy – is Scardina’s coach Dino Spencer who owns the 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach.
Mr. Spencer, tell us about Daniele Scardina’s training for the fight against Giovanni De Carolis?
“The situation couldn’t be more perfect. Recently, we went to Gennady Golovkin’s training camp which was 1 hour from my gym. Daniele sparred with Golovkin and GGG complimented him! That’s why I am sure that Daniele will beat Giovanni De Carolis on May 13.”
What do you think of Giovanni De Carolis?
“I think that Giovanni is a great professional and he proved it going to Germany to fight WBA World super middleweight champion Vincent Feigenbutz and defeating him by 11th round TKO. I know that Giovanni trains for the entire year and not only when he has a fight. Daniele is the same and that’s very important. If a fighter has a reputation of training 365 days a year, he can get more opportunities like being called as a last minute substitute in a major fight that cannot be postponed for several reasons. Many fighters train with passion at the start of their career. When they win a title, then a second one, they consider themselves phenomenons and train with less intensity. That’s not Daniele’s attitude: he always trains with passion like he has to fight against the world champion. I know that Giovanni De Carolis lost some fights that he was supposed to win, but that happens to everybody. In my mind, Daniele will fight the WBA World champion on May 13.”
If Daniele beats De Carolis, what will be his next goal?
“Everybody knows that we want a world title shot. I trust Opi Since 82 that proved to have the skills to lead a fighter to a world title shot. I have told them that I am willing to fight every champion in his backyard. I have been doing this job for 30 years and believe me when I say that Daniele is ready to fight any world super middleweight champion. Realistically, he will get a title shot in two years.”
In Italy Daniele became famous participating in prime time tv shows like ‘Dancing with the stars’. How famous is he in Miami Beach?
“My gym is full of professional boxers, some world champions, entertainment stars and therefore is also full of journalists who know Daniele and write about him. Daniele would bring a crowd to a fight in Miami Beach too. In the near future, I don’t think that he will fight here because the fights that we are interested in are in New York, Atlantic City, London, Milan and other cities.”
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