Tag Archives: Joe Calzaghe

World super middleweight title challenger “The Pride of Providence” Peter Manfredo, Jr., star of The Contender Season One, is finally at peace with himself in boxing as he prepares to fight Donny “The Savage” McCrary, 24-7-2 (13), star of The Contender Season Three, on Friday night, August 22 in the …

With the postponement of their scheduled September 20 clash announced earlier this week, due to a training injury to Joe Calzaghe’s hand, the contest between the Welsh Wizard and Roy Jones Jr will now take place in November at the original location of Madison Square Garden. Five years ago, this …

Carl Froch has now got his hard-earned shot at the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title against Jermain Taylor later this year but hopes his co-challenger doesn’t bottle out of it. Undefeated British Champion Froch has been elected to fight the American, Taylor, a former undisputed middleweight champion, for the prestigious …

British boxing legend Joe Calzaghe has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced yesterday. The 36-year-old from Newbridge in Wales, who was appointed an MBE in 2003, was recognised for his services to sport and voluntary services to Wales.

Trainer of the Year Enzo Calzaghe has once again rapped the knuckles of Jack Loew, the trainer of undefeated world middleweight champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik. Calzaghe is incensed that Loew is dismissing Gary “The Rocket” Lockett, Pavlik’s No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger, by looking ahead at a showdown …

Furious Enzo Calzaghe, the reigning “Trainer of the Year,” has launched a stinging attack on world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik’s trainer Jack Loew after Loew bad mouthed his son Joe – and top-rated middleweight title contender Gary Lockett. Loew has been quoted in the press as saying: “Maybe Enzo can …

Carl Froch says he will produce a better performance than Joe Calzaghe did at the weekend in his WBC Super Middleweight Title Final Eliminator against Denis Inkin of Russia at the Trent FM Nottingham Arena on May 10. British champion Froch, 22-0 (18), was not overly impressed by Calzaghe’s points …

It was ‘spot the celebrity’ on Saturday night as the stars came out for Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins as they battled for the Light Heavyweight Championship at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas. Both men fly out of their corners for the first round but after only …

“Everyone was mentioned as Calzaghe’s potential next opponent but me – the true light heavy weight champion,” said IBF/IBO Light Heavyweight Champion Tarver following Joe Calzaghe’s defeat of Bernard Hopkins, who comprehensively beat Tarver in 2006, in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

© Tom Hogan / Golden Boy Promotions Like all fights of latter period Bernard Hopkins, last night’s greatly anticipated showdown with Joe Calzaghe at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas was an ugly, untoward bout that proved difficult to score and generated a great deal of controversy as …

© Tom Hogan / Golden Boy Promotions Despite the fact that Bernard Hopkins fights in an unorthodox style, known to lead with head followed by a punch, Joe Calzaghe has full confidence that referee Joe Cortez will keep things Kosher when they meet tomorrow night in The Planet Hollywood Ring …

© Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions Finally, it’s upon us. A fight that has been years, not months, in the making finally takes places this Saturday at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its a fight at light heavyweight between two men with a combined 41 successful defences …