“Super Joe” Calzaghe Cages BBC Award For Second Straight Year

On the strength of his superb victory over Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler last month, undisputed super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe won his second straight BBC Wales Sports Personality of The Year award.

The “Italian Dragon” collected 77% of the vote, beating out an army of Welsh sports figures, including stablemate and WBO Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Mccarinelli.

The 35 year old from Newbridge, Wales must line up at least one big name opponent in 2008 if he is to have a chance of winning the award for a record third consecutive time but has won the BBC trophy for a total of three times, joining 1960’s WBC, British and European Featherweight Champion Howard Winstone in that honor.