On a Sunday morning in the middle of August, Bruno Danovaro he imagined just going to get the newspaper and sitting down to read the usual news that he would go through.
Instead, the martial arts champion just before 10 am noticed, in the square Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, two men visibly altered and in unequivocal attitudes, while they harassed two girls heavily and intervened to defend them. With his bare hands, so to speak, he managed to push the two away and avoid the worst.
Danovaro’s bare hands intervention
To describe those moments of terror for young women, the clarity of his speech and also the promptness in interpreting what was being consumed in broad daylight is the same Bruno Danovaro that he told to ANSA that frightening sequence of abuses unfolding:
“I went to get the newspaper when I saw those two boys reaching out their hands. I took them and took them off the girls enough to allow them to leave “, explained the champion who, in April 2020, as a volunteer in the transport of medicines, had already defended himself from an attempted robbery with a knife, sending three criminals in the hospital.
The precedent of the robbery suffered
Three robbers who were certainly not aware of his resume as a judo champion, then boxing and karate, and jujitsu with 113 matches in a row won. Then things went differently, but it was still an event that could have dramatic implications:
“In that case there was a knife involved. This time I just blocked them. I do not want to pass for executioner – he is keen to point out -. I am not and I do not want to replace the public force. But it is a disaster. There is a baby gang in the area, there are three or four drug dealers who now live in the square, day and night. The situation is becoming difficult ”especially now that the Politecnico di Milano, which has its main office in the square,“ is closed, as is the nearby school ”. “The police are there and they do their duty” but they can’t always pass at the exact moment in which things happen, he added. Danovaro, who after blocking the two drunks, two boys of about 25, photographed them and then, with a sore shoulder, went to report to the Città Studi police station. “It must not become a Far West, we are not in America – he pointed out – but this is not a good business card for Milan”.
Who is Bruno Danovaro, Grand Master of martial arts
Master of martial arts, self defense and personal trainer, Danovaro he is a reference in Milanese sport (and not only) for what concerns the disciplines he practices and from which he teaches of extreme importance, also in terms of knowledge of the philosophy to which they are inspired. And who made the fight against doping one of his reasons for living.
Star of judo since the 1980s, he also holds several world records in weightlifting, some of which are unbeaten. Plus she is Grandmaster of Kyokushin, karate, Mma, Olympic wrestling, judo, bjj, grappling and has another unbeaten record in 113 pro martial arts matches.
And in the meetings, also on television, with students and young people, the teacher has always fought for a clean sport, against doping substances and against the gyms that allow and encourage their use. He himself has publicly denounced, in the recent past, of having found himself at the center of threats for his commitment in the world of sport and against the abuse of prohibited substances.
VIRGILIO SPORT
