Career
Blandamura made his professional debut on 29 April 2007, winning a second-round technical knockout against Alex Herceg, who also debuted. This time, Blandamura was knocked out in the eighth round by Michel Soro.
Blandamura made his professional debut on 29 April 2007, winning a second-round technical knockout against Alex Herceg, who also debuted. This time, Blandamura was knocked out in the eighth round by Michel Soro.
He is a former European Union and WBC Silver International middleweight champion, and has challenged twice for the European middleweight title. On 16 June 2012, Blandamura won his first major regional championship—the vacant WBC Silver International middleweight title—by stopping Luca Tassi in ten rounds. This was followed up on 25 January 2014, when Blandamura defeated Marcos Nader via twelve-round split decision to win the European Union middleweight title. On 26 July 2014, Blandamura suffered his first career loss to Billy Joe Saunders, who knocked him out in eight rounds to win the vacant European middleweight title. A second chance for Blandamura to win the title, which Saunders later vacated, came on 20 June 2015.