CARDIFF, Wales (AP) _ A super middleweight fight to unify Joe Calzaghe's WBO and Mikkel Kessler's WBC and WBA belts looks further off than ever.
After Calzaghe stopped Peter Manfredo, star of ``The Contender'' reality TV show, to retain his title for the 20th time, promoter Frank Warren said Kessler's camp wouldn't meet the proposed July date.
Warren also claimed that Kessler, who said he wanted to fight Calzaghe after ...
Joe Calzaghe's next fight is against the runner-up on a reality show.
Calzaghe, the WBO super middleweight champion, will make his 20th title defence against Peter Manfredo Jr., who lost in the final on the first season of ``The Contender.''
The fight will be held at the Millennium Stadium on March 3 in Cardiff, Wales, where Manfredo will face a different kind of reality before a large and boisterous Welsh ...
WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe will defend his title March 3 in Wales against Peter Manfredo Jr., runner-up on the first season of the reality television show ``The Contender.''
Calzaghe (42-0, 31 KOs) is boxing's longest-reigning world champion. The British fighter first won the title in 1997, and his 19 successful defences rank sixth in boxing history.
Manfredo Jr., of Providence, R.I., is 26-3 (12 KOs) and is ranked ...
Joe Calzaghe survived a fourth round
cut and frequent head clashes to capture an unanimous decision over
Sakio Bika on Saturday and hold on to his IBF and WBO super
middleweight titles.
The victory extended Calzaghe's unbeaten record to 42-0 with his
19th successful title defence of his WBO title, which he has held
for nine years, and the first defence of the IBF crown he took from
Jeff Lacy in March.
While he fought a near perfect ...
Hampered by a fragile left hand and frustrated by boxing politics, Joe Calzaghe believes he is only two fights away from unifying the super-middleweight titles.
The unbeaten Welshman (41-0) defends his IBF and WBO belts against Australia-based Sakio Bika of Cameroon on Saturday at Manchester's MEN Arena. Boxing's longest reigning world champion, Calzaghe will be going for his 18th successful world title defence.
The hand injury and lack of a ...
