Paolo Roberto was born on 3 February 1969 and is a Swedish actor, television presenter, restauranteur and ex-boxer of partial Italian descent.
17 Facts About Paolo Roberto
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Paolo Roberto has starred in several movies and hosted several television programs, including as host of the cooking show Primo Paolo.
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Paolo Roberto's acting debut was in Stockholmsnatt, where he starred himself in a dramatization of his early life.
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Paolo Roberto started to compete professionally at the age of 24, but had earlier competed in kickboxing where he became Swedish champion, and before that Taekwondo where he became Nordic champion and repeated Swedish champion.
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Paolo Roberto was known for fighting a lot in the street.
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Paolo Roberto started off his career with four consecutive victories before running into trouble.
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Paolo Roberto's coach said in a post fight interview that Paolo refused to give up and that's probably why the referee stopped the fight.
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Paolo Roberto was behind on all scorecards at the time the fight was stopped.
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Paolo Roberto then moved up in weight to challenge fellow countryman Armand Krajnc for his WBO middle weight title.
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Paolo Roberto then went back to his original weight class welterweight where after three fights, he won the vacant WBC International Welterweight title against Raul Eduardo Bejarano.
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Paolo Roberto then vacated his belt to fight for the WBO Inter-Continental welterweight title against Wayne Martell.
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Paolo Roberto dominated the fight and was winning when in the tenth round Martell's cut above his eye had gotten so bad the ring doctor decided he had had enough.
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Paolo Roberto was a participant in the first season of Let's Dance, the Swedish version of Dancing with the Stars.
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The couple have one son, Enzo Antonio Paolo Roberto, born in 2004, and one daughter, Elisa Paolo Roberto, born in 2007.
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Paolo Roberto is featured in some chapters of Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire and played himself in the film based on the book.
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Paolo Roberto has talked openly of his conversion experience, which happened on a visit to St Peter's in Rome.
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Paolo Roberto recounted this episode of his life to Marcus Grodi on the "Journey Home" show of EWTN.