Record details

Silvio Branco

"Il Barbaro"

Cruiserweight

Male

Italy, Civitavecchia, Roma, Lazio
Born: 26 August 1966, Civitavecchia, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Height 6ft, mt 1,83

(brother of Gianluca Branco)

Club: Civitavecchia Ring

as an amateur:

1984 Teramo, Italian National Novice B Championships welterweight winner
1987 Bologna, Italian Championships super-welterweight 3rd place

amateur record: 23 contests, won 21, lost 1, draw 1

Amateur Results


1984
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 27	Sandro Artista	Ostia, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Feb. 28	Paolo Iezzi	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
Roma, Italy, May 4-5, Primi Pugni Tournament winner, 67 kg
+ May 4	Massimo Perfetti	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 5	Paolo Iezzi	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
+ June 29	Roberto Di Bartolomeo	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Aug. 25	Giuseppe De Bellis	Roma, Italy	WTKO 3
Roma, Italy, Nov. 9-10, Lazio Regional Novice B Championships winner, 67 kg
+ Nov. 9	Stefano Bova	Roma, Italy	WTKO 1
+ Nov. 10	Marco Vecchioni	Roma, Italy	WTKO 3
Teramo, Italy, Italian National Novice B Championships winner, 67 kg
+ Dec. 18	Gianco Delle Vedove	Teramo, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Dec. 20	G.Paolo Masotti	Teramo, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Dec. 22	Antonio Ronca	Teramo, Italy	WPTS 3

1985
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ May 24	Vito Antonio Maggio (ITA)	Civitavecchia, Italy	WPTS 3
+ Oct. 22	Santo Colombo (ITA)	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3


1986 No results recorded

1987
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Mar. 20	Marco Vecchioni	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
= Apr. 24	Marco Perazzi	Civitavecchia, Italy	Draw 3
+ May 7	Marco Perazzi	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 13	Angelo Figus	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3
+ May 30	Salvatore Calaresu	Civitavecchia, Italy	WAB
+ June 21	Marco Dell'Uomo (ITA)	Frosinone, Italy	WKO
+ July 24	Vincenzo Botti	Principina a Mare, Italy	WKO
Bologna, Italy, Italian National Championships 3rd place, 71 kg
+ Nov. 24	Andrea Indani	Bologna, Italy	WTKO-I
+ Nov. 25	Domenico Biffone (ITA)	Bologna, Italy	WPTS 3
- Nov. 26	Michele Mastrodonato (ITA)	Bologna, Italy	LTKO

Professional record


1988
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ July 14	Flip Houthoofdt	Milano, Italy	TKO 5
+ Sept. 15	Piero Spadaccini	Milano, Italy	cTKO 6
+ Dec. 30	Xhafer Vishaj	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 6

1989
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 14	Patrice Delacourt	Milano, Italy	KO 1
+ May 25	Alfredo Reyes	Rozzano, Italy	KO 2
+ June 10	Young Gully	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 2
+ July 21	Jimmy Gourad	Tarquinia, Italy	TKO 3
+ Oct. 14	Jimmy Gourad	Catanzaro, Italy	KO 3
= Dec. 9	Judas Clottey	Teramo, Italy	Draw 8

1990
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 29	Libema Nzua	Milano, Italy	W 6
+ May 25	Abdel Bejaoui	Tunis, Tunisia	TKO 3
+ Oct. 15	Eric Taton	Milano, Italy	KO 2
+ Nov. 16	Samuel Isiko	Piove di Sacco, Italy	KO 1

1991
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Mar. 27	Ray Webb	Mestre, Italy	W 8
+ May 15	Ian Chantler	Montichiari, Italy	TKO 2
+ July 5	Erick Ecker	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 2
+ Nov. 21	Larry McCall	Perugia, Italy	KO 1

1992
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Feb. 1	Agostino Cardamone	Civitavecchia, Italy	L 12
(For vacant Italian Middleweight Title)
+ Feb. 25	Tomas Garcia	Voghera, Italy	TKO 1

1993
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 20	Patrice Cord'homme	Avoiraz, France	W 6
+ Apr. 16	Horace Fleary	Roma, Italy	W 6
+ Aug. 20	Luigi De Cicilia	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 3
(Won vacant Italian Middleweight Title)
+ Dec. 29	Giovanni De Marco	Capo d'Orlando, Italy	TKO 3
(Retained Italian Middleweight Title)

1994
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Mar. 5	Stefano Pompilio	Grosseto, Italy	KO 1
(Retained Italian Middleweight Title)
+ June 29	Ivano Biagi	Follonica, Italy	KO 1
(Retained Italian Middleweight Title)
+ Oct. 14	Miguel Angel Arroyo	Tandil, Argentina	W 12
(Won WBC International Middleweight Title)

1995
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Feb. 22	Richie Woodhall	Telford, Gt.Britain	TKO by 9
(For vacant European Middleweight Title)
+ Aug. 2	Alexander Zaitsev	Erice, Italy	W 12
(Won IBF Inter-Cont’l Middleweight Title)
+ Nov. 30	Luis Dionisio Barrera	Pofi, Italy	TKO 12
(Retained IBF Inter-Cont’l MIddleweight Title)

1996
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 20	Jozsef Nagy	Marsala, Italy	TKO 1
= May 2	Rodney Toney	Civitavecchia, Italy	Draw 12
(For vacant WBU Super-Middleweight Title)
+ Aug. 8	Csaba Olah	San Mango, Italy	TKO 4
+ Sept. 12	Thomas Tate	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 12
(Won vacant WBU Middleweight Title)

1997
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Feb. 13	Verno Phillips	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 12
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)
+ June 12	Ricardo Raul Nunez	Giulianova, Italy	TKO 10
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)
+ Aug. 28	Gustavo Francisco Freda	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 6
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)
+ Dec. 17	Darren Maciunski	Calatafimi, Italy	W 12
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)

1998
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ June 27	Rogerio Cacciatore	Messina, Italy	W 12
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)
+ Aug. 22	Anthony Andrews	Calatafimi, Italy	TKO 8
(Retained WBU Middleweight Title)
- Dec. 18	Agostino Cardamone	Brindisi, Italy	KO by 10
(Lost WBU Middleweight Title)

1999
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Mar. 27	Agostino Cardamone	Civitavecchia, Italy	L 12
(For WBU Middleweight Title)
+ May 15	Anthony Ivory	Capo d’Orlando, Italy	W 8
+ June 26	Patrick Swann	Benevento, Italy	W 6
+ Nov. 20	Marco Antonio Duarte	Sabaudia, Italy	W 6

2000
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 15	Glen Johnson	Padova, Italy	W 12
(Won vacant WBU Super-Middleweight Title)
+ June 24	Robin Reid	Glasgow, Gt.Britain	W 12
(Retained WBU Super-Middleweight Title)
- Dec. 16	Sven Ottke	Karlsruhe, Germany	L 12
(For IBF Super-Middleweight Title)

2001
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 28	Didier Poujol	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 1
+ Oct. 20	Johan Gimenez	Trieste, Italy	W 6
+ Nov. 17	Julien Chamayou	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 6

2002
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Feb. 9	Jürgen Hartenstein	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 1
(Won vacant IBF Inter-Cont’l Light-Heavyweight Title)
+ Apr. 13	Ramdane Serdjane	Campione d’Italia, Italy	W 6
+ Nov. 24	Anton Lascek	Rijeka, Croatia	KO 2

2003
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Feb. 8	Stipe Drews	Berlin, Germany	L 12
(For vacant European Light-Heavyweight Title)
+ May 31	Zoltán Béres	Civitavecchia, Italy	TKO 5
+ July 22	Raul Barreto	Pavia, Italy	TKO 6
+ Oct. 10	Mehdi Sahnoune	Marseille, France	TKO 11
(Won WBA Light-Heavyweight Title)

2004
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Mar. 20	Fabrice Tiozzo	Lyon, France	L 12
(Lost WBA Light-Heavyweight Title)
- July 17	Thomas Ulrich	Zwickau, Germany	KO by 11
(For vacant European Light-Heavyweight Title)
+ Oct. 5	Ramdane Serdjane	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 10
+ Dec. 21	Sasha Mitreski	Sabaudia, Italy	TKO 5
(Won vacant WBA Inter-Cont’l Light-Heavyweight Title)

2005
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ May 20	Zoltán Béres	Santa Marinella, Italy	TKO 4
+ June 17	Drago Janjusevic	Milano, Italy	TKO 6
+ Dec. 16	Radek Seman	Miano, Italy	TKO 4

2006
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ July 27	Manny Siaca	Milano, Italy	W 12
(Won vacant WBA Interim Light-Heavyweight Title)

2007
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- Apr. 28	Stipe Drews	Oberhausen, Germany	L 12
(Lost WBA Light-Heavyweight Title)
+ Oct. 19	Peter Venancio da Silva	Berlin, Germany	TW 9
(Won vacant WBC Int’l and Wbc Latino Light-Heavyweight Titles)

2008
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 19	Abdelkader Benzinia	Bucharest, Romania	W 6

2009
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 10	Roland Horvath	Casoria, Italy	TKO 3
+ June 20	Zoltan Kallai	Cesano, Italy	TKO 4
- Sept. 25	Jean Pascal	Montreal, Canada	TKO by 10
(For WBC Light-Heavyweight Title)

2010
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Feb. 5	Laszlo Hubert	Fuscaldo, Italy	TKO 4
(Won vacant WBC International Cruiserweight Title)
+ Nov. 27	Vincenzo Rossitto	Civitavecchia, Italy	W 12
(Retained WBC International Cruiserweight Title)

2011
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ July 8	Jevgenijs Andrejevs	Civitanova Marche, Italy	W 6

2012
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
= Mar. 17	Giacobbe Fragomeni	Pavia, Italy	Draw 12
(For vacant WBC Silver Cruiserweight Title)
- Dec. 15	Giacobbe Fragomeni	Riva del Garda, Italy	L 12
(For vacant WBC Silver Cruiserweight Title)

2013
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ July 6	Juho Haapoja	Civitavecchia, Italy	TW 10
(Won vacant WBC Silver Cruiserweight Title)