Monday,
November 05, 2007
Joe Calzaghe
Unifies Super-Middleweight Boxing Title - Beats Mikkel
Kessler Conincingly
The
ANNOTICO Report
Joe
Calzaghe, WBO Super-Middleweight, 35 now, of
Italian-Welsh ancestry is called 'The Italian Dragon' and 'The Pride of
Wales'.
Calzaghe, convincingly beat Dane Mikkel
Kessler, with judges scoring the bout 117-111,116-112, 116-112 to now hold all
three belts in the Super-Middleweight Division, retaining
his own WBO belt, while gaining Kessler's WBA and WBC belts.
Kessler
was a formidable opponent, being undefeated with 39 victories, with 29
knock-outs in his 39-fight career, holding two championship belts, and at 28, supposedly
at his peak.
Calzaghe has run his magnificent, unbeaten record to
44 fights, has been a champion for 10 years, and now means that those
great American Light Heavy Weights, Bernard 'The Executioner' Hopkins (42) and
Roy Jones Jr (38) , who have successfully avoided Calzaghe by demanding excessive payouts, will now have to
seriously consider Retirement, OR consider finally facing Calzaghe,
and considering this one last fight a part of their Retirement Package. :)
This
21st successful title defence, is surpassed only by
two other boxers, Dariusz Michalczewski,
of
Calzaghe Unifies
Super-Middleweight Boxing Title
He hands
Kessler his first defeat.
From
Times Staff and Wire Reports
November
4, 2007
Undefeated
Joe Calzaghe added Mikkel
Kessler's World Boxing Assn. and World Boxing Council super-middleweight
titles to his own World Boxing Organization crown, unanimously outpointing the previously undefeated Dane at
The 35-year-old Welshman improved to 44-0, closing with three standout rounds
at the Millennium Stadium to unify the three titles in front of 35,000 of his
fans.
Kessler dropped to 39-1.
After both fighters traded big shots and combinations in all 12 rounds, the
three judges gave the decision to Calzaghe. Raul Caiz scored it 117-111, fellow American John Stewart
had it 116-112 and Massimo Barrovecchio of
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-newswire4nov04,1,1592452.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&
ctrack=1&cset=true
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