Alessandro Riguccini

Amateur career

Riguccini began boxing competitively at the age of 12, with early honours including two Federazione Italiana Wushu-Kung Fu (FIWuK) Sanda titles. One of his notable early amateur fights was against Aaram Kuzmenkov of Russia for the CKA Sanda amateur world title, where Alessandro lost by a single point. At the end of his amateur career he reported a record of 96 wins −11 losses − 4 draws in 111 matches.

Training in Cuba

After turning professional Riguccini moved to Cuba to train in boxing with the olympic star (Gold Barcelona 1992 and Gold Atlanta 1996) Héctor Vinent Cháron and all the olympic team.

Professional career

After returning from Cuba, Riguccini won almost all of his professional kickboxing matches, continually increasing his ranking among world kickboxing until he won the chance to vie for the World welterweight title.

Riguccini vs. Chiahou

In March 2010 at Sansepolcro (Italy) Riguccini faced the French champion Ibrahim Chiahou for the Wako Pro welterweight Kickboxing World title. Riguccini started well but in the middle of the match, Chiahou connected with some low kicks putting him in serious trouble and won by points the title.

Riguccini vs. Boumalek

In November 2010, Riguccini moved up to the middleweight division to fight Rachid Boumalek at the Palamacchia of Livorno in Italy for the Wako Pro full contact World title. Riguccini delivered a 9th-round knock out to win the World title at the young age of 22.

Riguccini vs. Ramirez Mendez

On 2 July 2011, Riguccini fought Juan Manuel Ramirez in Torino for the Kombat League Kickboxing super welterweight World title. Riguccini delivered a 2nd round knock out to win the World title and became at the same time kickboxing and full contact World champion.

Riguccini vs. Gogic

Subsequently, 24 February 2012, Riguccini defeated Aleksandar Gogic of Serbia (who was silver medalist at the Wako World championships 2007 in Belgrade and later lost versus the Ukraine champion Maksym Glubochenko, Wako European 2008 championship gold medalist, bronze medal in 2010 and 2011 at the Wako European championships and Wako champion of the balkans, these titles obtained) winning the Wako Pro lightweight World title (–62.200 kg). The match was settled by a unanimous decision on points to the fifth round.

Switch to Professional boxing

After only 13 amateur fights (7W−3L−3D) Riguccini decided to become a professional boxer under manager Conti Cavini and make his professional debut on 27 January 2012. He won by unanimous decision against Zoltan Janus Horvat.

Transfer to Mexico

After having terminated the contract with the colony of the manager "Conti Cavini" Alessandro moved to Mexico on 22 August 2012 to undertake his new journey of professional boxer, he established in Mexico City where he was represented by the Zanfer Promotions and was coached by Jorge Barrera (brother of Marco Antonio Barrera) at "Barrera Gym" along with others such as Moises Fuentes and Daniel Rosas. On 28 September 2012 he made his debut in Mexico beating by knockout in the second round Mexican fighter Eduardo Vargas. Then on 27 October he got a lightning victory, knocking down the veteran Mexican Leonardo Resendiz in 1:57 of the first round in his first eighth round match. After just 18 days after success against Leonardo Resendiz Riguccini got another win by KO at 1:31 minutes of the second round against Gabriel Lopez in a match scheduled for eight rounds and held at the Ex-Hacienda De Caltengo, Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, Mexico. On 5 December he again won by KO at 2:21 of the second round against the strong Hugo "El Poeta" Pacheco in a match of eight rounds, at the Municipal Explanada, Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, Mexico. After only 10 days, on 15 December, he fought again in a test match of four rounds against Orlando "Meteorito" Garcia at the Municipal Auditorium, San Juan Zitlaltepec winning all four rounds by a large margin, getting a unanimous decision.

WBC FECARBOX Title

On 28 December 2012 Alessandro Riguccini after only six professional matches faced the twenty-six-year-old Eugenio "Dinamita" Lopez in a 12-round match for the WBC FECARBOX titles in the super featherweight division. The fight resolved with a fourth-round KO when Alessandro sent Lopez to the mat with a powerful right uppercut in reverse.

Future career in Mexico

On 12 January 2013, Riguccini was in the ring for a test match, knocking down Mexican Mauricio Becerril at 1:13 minutes in the first of the six rounds planned. On 29 January, he got a unanimous decision against the Mexican boxer Tomas Sierra in an 8-round fight at the Auditorio Municipal de Benito Juárez, Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo. Then on 9 February he defeated the Mexican Neftali Perez by KO at 1:15 of the first round (of the 8 planned) at the Expo Feria, Hidalgo. On 19 February, he beat by disqualification in the eighth round (of the twelve planned), the young and strong Oscar Arenas who presented with a record of 24 wins (21 by KO) and only 5 losses proving to be a boxer of international level.

Back in Italy and return to Kickboxing

After returning to Italy, thanks to his wide experience boxing in Mexico he decided to try to become a world champion also in the specialty of the K1. On 5 October 2013 at the arena "Le Caselle" in Arezzo he took a first-round KO victory against the Romanian Cosmin "Genghis Khan" Zbranca and won the unified WKA and IKTA K1 world titles becoming world champion also in this discipline.

World K1 Title defense

On 20 December 2014 Riguccini retained his World K1 title against the Swiss Fabio Figara in his hometown Sansepolcro.

Second World K1 Title defense

On 20 February 2016 Riguccini retained his World K1 title for the second time against the Kazakh Gennady Liviu Petre in San Giovanni Valdarno.

Degree and returned to Mexico to professional boxing

In date June 16, 2016 Riguccini graduated with 110 and honors in Computer Engineering and decides later on November 12, 2016 to return to Mexico to resume his professional career in boxing in order to achieve important goals also in this sport. The December 10, 2016 faced Mario Alberto Mondragon in a match of 10 rounds at Guanajuato and wins by knockout at minute 0:19 of the third round knocking him down for a total of four times during the match. On January 21 he defeated Adrian Reyes by KO at the minute 2:42 in the first round of the 8 programmed and remaining undefeated after 13 match. After just two weeks back in the ring in the event "Jackie Nava vs Ana Maria Lozano" organized by Zanfer Promotion beating by KO in the first round (of the six planned) the Mexican Placido Perez Soria. After moving to Guasave (Sinaloa) returns to the ring on 18 March beating by KO effective in the first round (of the ten planned) Hugo Hernandez bringing his record to 15 wins and no losses with 11 KO. Hereafter the 1 April 2017 he beat by KO in the fourth round (of 10 planned) Carlos Lopez Marmolejo reaching the impressive score of 16 victories (of which 12 by KO) and no losses.

World Boxing Federation world title and IBF International title shot

On April 22 of 2017, he has the opportunity to become also a boxing World champion. He is faced with expert Jesus Antonio Rios who comes to the match with a record of 36 wins (of which 29 per KO) 9 defeats, 1 pair and a No-Contest against the 16 (all won, 12 per KO ) of Riguccini. The match begins with difficulties for Riguccini, which on the cards after two rounds is equal to two judges (19-19) and two points for the third judge (18-20). Towards the middle of the 3rd round, he succeeds with a right-back shot of Rios, which allows him to score a series of shots at Rios's defeat, which forces the referee (Tony Weeks ) to interrupt the match and deliver the two titles to Riguccini that won for technical KO.

Future career in Mexico

Less than a month away from the boxing lightweight World title Riguccini decides to return into the ring in a 10 rounds match in which he faces the Mexican Jesus Valenzuela at the Guasave Score Bar in Sinaloa while knocking him out in the second round. On June 2 he returns to the ring in Sinaloa and beats Mexican boxer Christian Valverde for KO in the second round bringing his score to 19-0 with 15 KOs

Professional boxing

Professional Kickboxing

Amateur Kickboxing