Joe Calzaghe: You Got My Respect
Author: RL
In what could be called Fight of the Year (at least until this Saturday's fight), Joe Calzaghe & Mikkel Kessler proved that boxing is not dead what so ever. Both dudes for the first 7-8 rounds were just throwing hands and putting the pressure on one another...a real throwback fight.
Calzaghe got hit with a few shots that stunned him, but Kessler never made the initiative to stick with Calzaghe and capitalize on those straight right hands that were landing flush. Joe fought his fight and landed enough punches to give him a unanimous decision to become the Undisputed Supper Middleweight Champion.
Up next for Calzaghe?:
This might be Bernard's retirement fight...
watched the fight while i was in vegas...
calzaghe is sick wid it. threw over 1000 punches, and had total control over the rhythm of the fight. kessler is gonna be sick, but he's gotta fight a few more years to get calzaghe's wisdom in the ring.