Career
He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the World Series of Boxing league. He has also signed up for the new AIBA professional league, the APB, which will launch in autumn 2013. Russo qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in second place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
At the Games Russo, who works as a policeman and who hails from Campania, fought at light heavyweight.
He moved up to the 201 lbs category and exited early at the World championships 2005 and the European championships 2006. He beat Chinese Yushan Nijiati to reach the finals where he edged out Russian top favorite Rakhim Chakkhiev 7:6.
In the World Series of Boxing he boxes for Italia Thunder team Outside of his sport career, in 2011 Russo debuted as an actor in the drama film Tatanka.
2003
Defeated Stefan Balint (Romania) 15-10
Lost to Magomed Aripgadzhiev (Belarus) 4-14
2005
Lost to Jasur Matchanov (Uzbekistan) 13-16
2007
Defeated Danny Price (England) 14-5
Defeated Lukas Viktora (Czechoslovakian Republic) 17-6
Defeated Alexander Povernov (Germany) 17-5
Defeated Milorad Gajovic (Montenegro) 15-3
Defeated Yushan Nijiati (China) 19-11
Defeated Rakhim Chakkhiev (Russia) 7-6
2008 (as a heavyweight)
Defeated Viktar Zuyev (Belarus) 7-1
Defeated Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine) 7-4
Defeated Deontay Wilder (United States) 7-1
Lost to Rakhim Chakkhiev (Russia) 2-4
2012 (as a heavyweight)
Defeated Tumba Silva (Angola)
Defeated Jose Larduet (Cuba)
Defeated Teymur Mammadov (Azerbaijan) 7-1
Lost to Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine).