By Eric Thomas: In the latest boxing news, undefeated super middleweight Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) injured his right wrist while training on a heavy bag for his upcoming September 20th bout with Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) at Madison Square Garden, in New York City. However, the bout will go ahead anyway a month in November unless the 36 year-old Calzaghe re-injures his wrist again. According to his father, Enzo Calzaghe, who told Setanta Sports that the fight will continue and that Joe just needs a little extra time to recover from his wrist injury, which suddenly swelled up after a heavy pad workout.
Joe Calzaghe has a history of injuries usually involving his left hand rather than his right, which has caused him to postpone other bouts. However, given his history of hand injuries it makes sense for him to take the time off rather than risk taking the fight and end up fighting with only one hand and losing to Jones. Calzaghe didn’t exactly impress in his last fight against Bernard Hopkins in April, a fight that Calzaghe narrowly won by a 12-round split decision. Many boxing fans felt that it was the 43 year-old Hopkins that actually should have been awarded the fight due to his harder and cleaner landing shots in comparison to Calzaghe’s slapping shots.