Boxing: HBO link Joe with Dane

Apr 6 2007

Gareth Jones, South Wales Echo


A super-middleweight unification between Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler is a fight that would interest HBO.

That came from the horse's mouth, with the American cable channel's main boxing man, Kery Davis, in town for the Welshman's defence against Peter Manfredo, Jr, tomorrow.

'We're looking to showcase the best fighters, wherever they're from,' said Davis. 'That's why we're in Cardiff.

'We consider Joe Calzaghe one of the elite boxers in the world.

'We see him taking on maybe the winner of Bernard Hopkins and 'Winky' Wright, maybe Jermain Taylor, maybe Kessler - if Frank Warren and Mogens Palle (the Dane's promoter) agree.

Warren was quick to emphasise that he would be happy for the WBO champion to face anyone.

'Joe will fight any one of those named,' he said.

'If they want to step up to the plate, we're ready.

But im already getting negative vibes from one or two of them