At the Giardini della Passerella a boxing meeting was held organized by Pugilistica Prato with numerous amateur matches and on this occasion the evening was against bullying. “Yes, this time we gave voice to the theme of Boxing against bullying – explains master Fausto Talia – we chose for this splendid evening of boxing and for us it was the first time the location of the catwalk gardens and once again the supporters of noble art they responded with warm affection and there was a truly large audience.”
The evening saw the 3 gym boxing matches begin to get into the ring and then there were 9 amateur matches where the boys from Pugilistica Pratese gave their all, showing off great character to the great satisfaction of the teachers. “We are proud to have given the opportunity to 12 of our athletes to get into the ring and compete – continues Talia – they train constantly and at a certain point you need to have a real opponent to understand if what has been done is correct or needs to be changed.
It was very nice to see the crowd cheering and cheering for a well-shot shot or a good defense means that those who come to watch understand what it means to get on the square and fight.” Each meeting has an important theme from violence against women, donating blood and now bullying “We are a sports association and we want to give the boys and girls who come to us values - concludes Talia – these themes are truly complementary to boxing because violence against women is truly a fundamental issue and we want to make people understand what it means, donating blood means helping others and now it can be useful to other people but it could also be useful to ourselves and finally youth bullying is a plague that arises precisely because there are no associations that do a job like ours. It is right to remain linked to such fundamental issues in growth”
Vezio Trifoni
