Joe Calzaghe boxer
- bouts
- 46
- won
- 46
- lost
- 0
- draw
- 0
- Status
- inactive
- Division
- super middleweight
- Debut
- 1993-10-01
- Height
- 5′ 11″/180cm
- Reach
- 73″/185cm
- Age
- -
- Born
- 1972-03-23
- Death
- -
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
Joseph William Calzaghe CBE (/kælˈzæɡi/ kal-ZAH-gee; born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal super-middleweight titles, and the Ring light-heavyweight title.Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and defending the title 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 also the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (WBA, WBC, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the first 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, and as a reigning world champion. As of 2021, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the thirteenth greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the 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".
Date | Opponent | Last Opponents' Results | Place | Result |
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2008-11-08 | Roy Jones Jr | LLLWWW | Madison Square Garden, New York | WIN Unanimous decision |
2008-04-19 | Bernard Hopkins | WWLLWW | Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas | WIN Split-decision |
2007-11-03 | Mikkel Kessler | WWWWWW | Millennium Stadium, Cardiff | WIN Unanimous decision |
2007-04-07 | Peter Manfredo Jr | WWLLWW | Millennium Stadium, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
2006-10-14 | Sakio Bika | WWWWWD | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester | WIN Unanimous decision |
2006-03-04 | Jeff Lacy | WWWWW | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester | WIN Unanimous decision |
2005-09-10 | Evans Ashira | WWWWLW | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Unanimous decision |
2005-05-07 | Mario Veit | WWWWWW | Volkswagenhalle, Braunschweig | WIN Technical knockout |
2004-10-22 | Kabary Salem | WWWWL | Royal Highland Showground, Edinburgh | WIN Unanimous decision |
2004-02-21 | Mger Mkrtchyan | WWWWWW | National Ice Rink, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
2003-06-28 | Byron Mitchell | WWWWWL | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
2002-12-14 | Tocker Pudwill | LWWWWW | Telewest Arena, Newcastle | WIN Technical knockout |
2002-08-17 | Miguel Angel Jimenez | WWWWWW | Cardiff Castle, Cardiff | WIN Unanimous decision |
2002-04-20 | Charles Brewer | WWLWLW | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Unanimous decision |
2001-10-13 | Will McIntyre | LWWWWW | Parken, Copenhagen | WIN Technical knockout |
2001-04-28 | Mario Veit | WWWWWW | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
2000-12-16 | Richie Woodhall | WWWWLW | Sheffield Arena, Sheffield | WIN Technical knockout |
2000-08-12 | Omar Sheika | WWWWWW | Conference Centre, Wembley | WIN Technical knockout |
2000-01-29 | David Starie | WWWWWW | M.E.N. Arena, Manchester | WIN Unanimous decision |
1999-06-05 | Rick Thornberry | WWWWWW | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Unanimous decision |
1999-02-13 | Robin Reid | WWWWLW | Telewest Arena, Newcastle | WIN Split-decision |
1998-04-25 | Juan Carlos Gimenez | WLWWWW | National Ice Rink, Cardiff | WIN Corner retirement |
1998-01-24 | Branko Sobot | WWLWWW | International Arena, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1997-10-11 | Chris Eubank | LWWLWW | Sheffield Arena, Sheffield | WIN Unanimous decision |
1997-06-05 | Luciano Torres | WWLWWW | Whitchurch Sports Centre, Bristol | WIN Technical knockout |
1997-03-22 | Tyler Hughes | WWWWWW | Wythenshawe Forum, Manchester | WIN KO |
1997-01-21 | Carlos Christie | LWLLLW | Whitchurch Sports Centre, Bristol | WIN Technical knockout |
1996-05-15 | Pat Lawlor | WLLLWL | Star Leisure Centre, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1996-05-04 | Warren Stowe | WWWLW | Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham | WIN Corner retirement |
1996-04-20 | Mark Delaney | WWWWWW | Brentwood Centre, Brentwood | WIN Technical knockout |
1996-03-13 | Anthony Brooks | LDWWLW | Brent Town Hall, Brent | WIN Technical knockout |
1996-02-13 | Guy Stanford | LLLWWL | Welsh Institute of Sport, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1995-10-28 | Stephen Wilson | WWWWWW | Royal Albert Hall, Kensington | WIN Technical knockout |
1995-09-30 | Nick Manners | LWLWWL | Festival Hall, Basildon | WIN Technical knockout |
1995-07-08 | Tyrone Jackson | DLLLWL | Barbican Centre, York | WIN Technical knockout |
1995-05-19 | Robert Curry | WWWWLL | Elephant & Castle Centre, Southwark | WIN Technical knockout |
1995-02-22 | Bobbie Joe Edwards | LLLLLL | Ice Rink, Telford | WIN Points |
1995-02-14 | Frank Minton | LWWLLL | York Hall, Bethnal Green | WIN KO |
1994-11-30 | Trevor Ambrose | LLWLLL | Civic Hall, Wolverhampton | WIN Technical knockout |
1994-10-01 | Mark Lee Dawson | LLWLWL | National Ice Rink, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1994-06-04 | Karl Barwise | LWLLLL | National Ice Rink, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1994-03-01 | Darren Littlewood | LW | Town Hall, Dudley | WIN Technical knockout |
1994-01-22 | Martin Rosamond | LLWWWL | Welsh Institute of Sport, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |
1993-12-16 | Spencer Alton | LWLWLL | Newport Centre, Newport | WIN Technical knockout |
1993-11-10 | Paul Mason | LDWLLL | Watford Town Hall, Watford | WIN Technical knockout |
1993-10-01 | Paul Hanlon | LWWLLL | National Stadium, Cardiff | WIN Technical knockout |