🥊 Joe Calzaghe Undefeated Boxer - FREE Boxing Documentary

Joe Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight undefeated world champion in boxing history, having held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title for over 10 years and defending it against 20 opponents (a record in the division, shared with Sven Ottke) before moving up to light-heavyweight. As his super-middleweight and light-heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active boxer at the time. Calzaghe was the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the inaugural Ring champion in that weight class.

Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was ranked by The Ring as one of the world's top ten active boxers, pound for pound, reaching a peak ranking of third in January 2009. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record of 46 wins, and as a reigning world champion. As of 2022, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the twenty-fourth greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the second-greatest European boxer of all time.

In 2007, Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, making him the first Welsh winner of this award since David Broome in 1960. Calzaghe was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. He was nicknamed the "Pride of Wales" and the "Italian Dragon".

On 5 February 2009, Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement from professional boxing. He finished his career with a record of 46 wins and no losses, and becoming one of only fifteen world champions (to date) to retire as an undefeated world champion. After his retirement, fellow boxer and friend, Ricky Hatton described him as "the best British fighter we've ever had."

As of May 2023, BoxRec rates Calzaghe as the second greatest European boxer, pound for pound, of all time, behind Duilio Loi.

Calzaghe's most notable boxing wins were: Roy Jones Jr, Bernard Hopkins, Mikkel Kessler, Jeff Lacy, Byron Mitchell, Robin Reid, Chris Eubamk, Sakio Bika.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Calzaghe

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