Joe Calzaghe is arguably the best British super middleweight of all time and was a two-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal super-middleweight titles, as well as the Ring light-heavyweight title. He was the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and making 21 successful defences 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 fighter.
Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was rated by The Ring as one of the world’s top ten 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.
In 2007, he became BBC Sports Personality of the Year – the first Welsh winner since David Broome in 1960 – and was a three-time winner of the Welsh Sports Personality of the Year Award (2001, 2006, 2007). He was awarded the British Young Boxer of the Year Award in 1995 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.
A full biography of Joe Calzaghe will appear here shortly.
