Alghero, a museum for the great boxer Tore Burruni
Visitors will be able to admire the old relics, curiosities and equipment of the sample
"Ali bomaye", which means "Ali kill him", in 1974 in Kinshasa the supporters of Mohamed Ali shouted madly, in the match valid for the world heavyweight title won by the great Louisville boxer against the fearsome George Foreman. Years earlier in Alghero, at the Miramare cinema or outdoors, at the gymnasium of San Michele, the people of Alghero shouted "Matal To", "kill him Tore". He was not a great boxer that the Catalans loved and praised, but a flyweight, a punching machine, a technical boxer with a lion's heart. That formidable boxer was called Tore Burruni, a thoroughbred from Alghero, who in 1965, at the age of 32, would become world champion, beating the Thai Pone Kingpetch in Rome in a memorable match.
Burruni wrote other epic pages of boxing and was certainly one of the strongest Italian boxers of all time. He passed away in 2004, at the age of 71, and soon in Alghero he will finally have a museum dedicated to him. It will rise in a former penal colony, later a former Maria Pia farm. The project, which will be done by the municipal administration, is by the surveyor Bachisio Camboni and provides for the redevelopment of the old structure into a sports center, in which a space will be created for the museum named after Tore Burruni. Visitors will be able to admire the old relics, curiosities and equipment of the glorious champion, together with a photo gallery that will remember the great deeds of Burruni and the formidable boxers he met, such as the Argentine Oracio Accavallo or the Scotsman Walter McGowan, who took the world crown in London in 1966. "Thanks to the initiative of a dear friend like Bachisio Camboni, my father will be worthily remembered - affirms Gianfranco Burruni, the boxer's son - The municipal administration is proving to be very sensitive on the subject and the project it will then go through. My father deserved it, for what he gave to world sport and the city of Alghero, but also for the example of correctness, loyalty and morality that he has always shown inside and outside the ring ".
