Who can resist a Top-10. Of Anything? Such a list, such an opinion, pulls a reader in, ready to debate, and strongly disagree.
As fans may have read, former super-middleweight champ Carl Froch recently called out Joe Calzaghe – this despite the fact that both men have been retired for some time, ten years in the case of Calzaghe.
Perhaps Carl Froch is, like many of us, bored due to the ongoing coronavirus lock down. Maybe Froch is just bored in general.
Has Tyson Fury Done Something Similar To Deontay Wilder?
Not long after Tyson Fury had put the final touches to the handiwork he showed in his massive rematch with Deontay Wilder on February 22, boxing pundits were writing, and saying, how the heavyweight had perhaps pulled off the finest ever “away” win scored by a British fighter.
Former two-weight king Joe Calzaghe, who never lost a single fight, is to re-open his late father’s boxing gym in Wales.
A quarter of a century ago today, the great Joe Calzaghe boxed his professional debut. Arguably the finest super-middleweight in the history of the division, “The Pride of Wales” fought a guy named Paul Hanlon at Cardiff Arms Park on October 1st, 1993 (on the under-card of the massive all-British heavyweight affair that was Lennox Lewis Vs.
It was no Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler, it was not even a Nigel Benn-Chris Eubank II – but the big fight that took place a decade ago today caused quite a stir and it generated quite a debate all the same; and this was down to the scoring of the fight.
By David Vaught, a family member of the great Archie Moore – Floyd Mayweather has become a very controversial figure in boxing.
Joe Calzaghe, arguably the finest super-middleweight in history, scored a huge win a decade ago today when he decisioned Danish hero Mikkel Kessler over 12 gripping rounds.
Exactly twenty years ago today in Sheffield, England, a great fight saw a great fighter crowned as world champion for the first time.