Joe Calzaghe Boxing News

By William Mackay: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe doesn’t think 46-year-old WBC light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is really serious about wanting to fight WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly in 2012.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe never got the chance to fight WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward because Calzaghe retired just when Ward was starting to make his presence felt in the division.

By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) said he got the chance to take on Andre Ward’s latest fight against Carl Froch in the Super Six tournament this past weekend. Calzaghe, 38, said the 27-year-old Ward looked impressive but he thinks he can still be beat.

By William Mackay: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe’s father Enzo Calzaghe is training former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli, who is hoping to make a go of it at light heavyweight after suffering his fourth knockout loss in the past three years.

Former World Champ turned promoter Carl Greaves recently announced that he will be presenting boxing fans the opportunity to spend an evening with one of the greatest British boxers of all time – undisputed Super Middleweight Champion of the World Joe Calzaghe – at the Cedric Ford Pavilion, Newark Showground, Newark, Nottingham on Saturday 8th [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: 42-year-old Antonio Tarver called out Joe Calzaghe for a fight, saying to the South Wales Argos “I was the only one that could beat him, that;s why he avoided me. He got dropped by Roy [Jones] and [Bernard] Hopkins. I would’ve knocked out feather-punching Calzaghe. He couldn’t beat me period and I [...]

Former Super Featherweight World Champion turned promoter Carl Greaves presents the opportunity for boxing fans to spend an evening with one of the greatest British boxers of all time – undisputed Super Middleweight World Champion Joe Calzaghe – at the Cedric Ford Pavilion, Newark Showground, Newark, Nottingham on Saturday 8th October.

By Scott Gilfoid: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins thinks that he’s what drove former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe to retirement in 2008 after giving Calzaghe all he could handle in a 12 round split decision loss for Hopkins in April 2008. A lot of boxing fans, including myself, saw Hopkins winning the fight based on his [...]

By William Mackay: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has no interest in making a comeback for a big money fight against 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins despite the cash that Calzaghe could make to help cushion his retirement. Calzaghe was at the Amir Khan – Zab Judah fight last Saturday night in Las [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s really amusing and dreadfully disappointing to see how many knowledgeable fighters and trainers were wrong about the outcome of last Saturday’s fight between IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA champion David Haye.

By William Mackay: For super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe is very impressed with how good WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) after Calzaghe took the time to visit the 30-year-old Haye at his training camp to watch him go through his paces while he gets ready for his July 2nd bout against IBF/WBO [...]

By Byron Wallin: When reading articles on this site concerning Joe Calzaghe (46-0 32 KO’s) the common themes seem to comprise whether Calzaghe really was as good as his record would suggest, or whether infact he was nothing more than a carefully matched fighter who fought in a weak division in a poor era.

By Wayne Lloyd: In 2008 I remember leaving Madison Square Garden and saying to my father that I thought Joe Calzaghe (46-0) was retiring prematurely as he brought down the curtain on an illustrious career that yielded no professional defeats and just one loss as an amateur. Indeed, some three and a half years later [...]

By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is still holding out hope that former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe will come out of retirement to face him after Froch completes his final bout in the Super Six tournament against Andre Ward later on this year.

By Saqib Khan: When a boxer retires we always look back at the memorable fights the boxer had. When i think of Joe Calzaghe I can’t think of many.

By Darren Munsey: As this is my first article for boxingnews24 I would firstly like to thank everyone taking the time to read it. I am going to write about the legacies of Joe Calzaghe (46-0) and Carl “The Cobra” Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) and try to determine which 1 will leave behind the greatest [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former undisputed super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) is someone WBO light heavyweight interim champion Nathan Cleverly (21-0, 10 KO’s) hopes will help him get ready for his fight against WBO light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (36-2, 29 KO’s) on April 2nd at the Wembley Arena, in Wembley, London. Calzaghe, [...]

By William Mackay: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe thinks World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) has to fight the Klitschko brothers now. Speaking Sky Sports News, Calzaghe said “David Haye has to fight one of the Klitschko brothers without a doubt. The older one [Vitali Klitschko]. They’re both [...]

By Ben James: Ever since former undisputed super middleweight world champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) retired after his fight with former P4P king of the sport Roy Jones Jr (who by the way really needs to retire, and should have done so maybe 10 fights ago!), fans and haters of Calzaghe have been calling [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Former unbeaten IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has reiterated that he won’t be making a comeback even though he’s only 38-years-old and still fit enough to keep fighting. Calzaghe finished his career two years ago with a 12 round decision over Roy Jones Jr. in November 2008. At [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe is picking World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s) to beat Audley Harrison (27-4, 20 KO’s) next month in their bout on November 13th at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester. In an interview at Sky Sports, Calzaghe says “I don’t think [...]

by Sam Singh: Cliff Rold, generally speaking, is a respected writer within the boxing world. Rold is a member the Ring Magazine Advisory Panel, the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Yahoo Pound for Pound voting panel. Despite Rold’s flashy credentials I feel compelled as an avid follower of the sweet science to voice [...]

By William Mackay: It’s hard to believe that former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) won’t be making a comeback at least for one or two more fights. It’s been two years since Calzaghe, then 36, retired from boxing after beating a washed up 40-year-old Roy Jones Jr. by a lopsided 12 round [...]

By Dave Lahr: World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1, 16 KO’s) was elated after escaping with an 11 round technical decision win over former light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson (29-1, 17 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada. Pascal, 27, was exhausted and getting lit up by Dawson [...]

By Tom Graves: Before his retirement in February 2009 as Britain’s only undefeated boxing world champion, Joe Calzaghe was the longest-reigning boxing world champion of the modern era, owning a fight record of 46-0, 32 of which by KO/TKO. Many people may only know of “The Pride of Wales” later in his career or may [...]

By Joseph Hirsch: Joe Calzaghe is probably the most controversial champion of the last twenty-five years. Many regard him as one of the most overprotected European fighters in history, with the possible exception of Sven Ottke, a man with an ineffectual pitter-pat style of punching who favored picking on old men like Bernard Hopkins or [...]

By William Mackay: Former WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has once again ended speculation about him making a comeback by saying he doesn’t plan on attempting to come out of his two-year retirement to fight Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KO’s), who Calzaghe already outpointed by a 12 round split decision in [...]

By William Mackay: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) quashed rumors that he’ll be staging a comeback by saying today that he has no plans of coming out of his two-year retirement to continue his boxing career. Calzaghe, 38, last fought two years ago in November 2008 with a 12 round [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) is debating whether or not go continue his boxing career and come back for a rematch with 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins. Calzaghe, 38, has been out of action for two years since retiring after beating Roy Jones Jr. in 2008. Golden Boy Promotions CEO [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In the latest boxing news, former Commonwealth champion Nicky Piper thinks that Joe Calzaghe is making a mistake if he stages a comeback, according to Walesonline. Piper, speaking about Calzaghe, he says, “The only reasons Joe would want a rematch would be the money or his ego. But I think he would [...]