Ivan Zucco (born 11 October 1995) is an Italian

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who is a former WBC International

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champion. He has also held the Italian super-middleweight title and challenged for the

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title in the same weight division.

Career

Unbeaten in his first 12 professional fights, Zucco won the vacant Italian

title when his opponent, Luca Capuano, retired on his stool at the end of the sixth round of their bout at the

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on 16 April 2021. He successfully defended the title by stopping Ignazio Crivello in the third of their scheduled 10-round contest at Centro Eventi Il Maggiore in

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on 28 July 2021. Zucco fought Marko Nikolic for the vacant WBC International super-middleweight title at Palazzo Dello Sport in Verbania on 22 April 2022. He won by stoppage in the second round. Back at the Allianz Cloud Arena in Milan, he made a successful defense of his title against British boxer Germaine Brown on 24 March 2023, winning the fight via unanimous decision. Zucco faced Callum Simpson for the vacant

super-middleweight title at

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, England, on 7 June 2025. He knocked his opponent to the canvas in the first and third rounds, but lost by stoppage when he was felled three times in the 10th round.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zucco, Ivan Living people 1995 births Italian male boxers Super-middleweight boxers 21st-century Italian sportsmen Sportspeople from Verbania Southpaw boxers