He can do it, no matter what the doctors think, and regardless of the fact that the boxing world no longer seems to believe in him. He trains with extreme dedication, quits drinking, eating, smoking, gives up everything and wins back his Italian title. For someone who has fought at the Madison Garden in New York it’s not much but it’s a start. In the meantime the relationship with Fulvia has finally hit the rocks for good; she has a new partner and makes no bones about it, neither with Tiberio nor the press. He is the new Italian Champion and he really can’t stand passing for a “cuckold”, he’d rather see his son whenever he has any time off, accept that he grow up in another man’s home, but he doesn’t want to keep feeling fragile and ridiculed. Their relationship is over: they separate. They each go their own separate ways. He still has his boxing, and he will prove he still has plenty to give. Tiberio knows that anything he sets his mind to sooner or later he will achieve. He fights for the European Championship and wins. Here is the Champion once more, he has gone back to being the man everyone knew, the Italian idol who dreams of making the cut, an example for anyone who feels they can never climb back out of a hole, for those who believe they no longer have a chance. Mitri’s sporting life teaches us that no one is a born loser, that no one can be believe they’re done for until they’ve tried with all they’ve got to win their battles. Against all odds, against physical limitations and age, Tiberio has conquered all. And as European Champion he meets Fulvia once more, a very special meeting, as lovers, just the two of them in a room. They both know they won’t be getting together again, she is now living with her new partner and he has now entered a relationship with another woman. It doesn’t matter, they’ve found this time that is only for the two of them, a brief moment when time and reality stand still, and for just the one day they try to relive what they have been for each other for years with the awareness that their love will never be replaced by any other. No other relationship can hope to match the intensity and passion they had once known, no other love will ever be like the love of their youth. Mitri’s boxing career ended in 1957, after which he attempted a brief career in cinema seeing as he had been boxing’s lover boy and everyone called him “angel face”. A short flash in the pan which left little trace. Who knows what might have happened had Tiberio Mitri won his historic fight against Jake La Motta. That evening at the Madison Square Garden in New York when he lost his World Medium Weight Championship fight, what was actually at stake, but he, in his youthfulness was unaware of, was a large part of his future happiness and his love for Fulvia Franco, the woman of his life.
<strong>TIBERIO</strong> <strong>MITRI</strong> - The Boxer and The Beauty Queen The Cast LUCA ARGENTERO