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"I will beat you black". That's a cool phrase. I might use it for some people who need a good beat up here.
Fortunately most of them are in my ignore list, so I may not get the chance to use it.
"Black and blue" (not referring to us in this case) is a decently common synonym in English to suggest bruising. One of the nicknames for the long-gone NFC Central division in the NFL was calling it the black and blue division because of the hard hitting nature of the teams that played in it. So I'm not surprised that there's an everday, nonracial Italian expression that operates along the same lines..."beat you black", in other words, bruise you up.
Of course, whether Acerbi actually said something like that or if this is a total CYA attempt is its own matter I guess.