Rocky Mattioli (born Rocco Mattioli, 20 September 1953) an Italian-Australian former boxer at junior middleweight, and former world champion.

Rocky was the 2004 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Moderns category.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Professional boxing record
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Mattioli was born in Ripa Teatina, near Chieti, in Abruzzo in central Italy. He emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of six and lived in Morwell, Victoria.

He turned professional in 1970 and started training with Italian trainer Arnold Rossi. In 1977, he captured the WBC Light Middleweight *le with a KO over Eckhard Dagge. He defended the *le twice before losing it to Maurice Hope in 1979 by TKO. In 1980, he had a rematch with Hope, but again was TKO'd, in the 11th round. He retired in 1982, settling in Milan.

Professional boxing record

References

External links

• Boxing record for Rocky Mattioli from BoxRec (registration required)