The ninefold World Champion likened himself to a boxer hanging on to the ropes together with his contusioned face lined in plasters, missing a couple of teeth and sporting a black eye as if to parody his season up to now.
A battered however undefeated Valentino asks: "How am I doing?" Even his devoted bulldogs Cesare and Cecilia square measure kitted out with boxing gloves on their paws, prepared for the fight.