Calzaghe on Cleverly: "There is Only One of Me"
By Mark Vester
Light heavyweight Nathan Cleverly (17-0, 7KOs) is being compared by many British pundits to Joe Calzaghe. Some are calling him the next Calzaghe. The current BBBofC British and Commonwealth (British Empire) champion is making a real name for himself on the British boxing scene.
Calzaghe disagrees with the media. He says Cleverly is fast but he is no Joe Calzaghe.
“Yes he is fast but don’t forget there is only one Joe Calzaghe. There will only ever be one, simple as that,” Calzaghe told Wales Online.
Nathan is only 22 and the people that are talking about world titles just need to relax a bit,” he said. “Let him fight some tough Americans, guys that will hit him back and put him in the trenches, and see what happens. It’s similar to what happened in my career. I won a lot of fights early on and got carried away."
As far as his good friend Enzo Maccarinelli, Calzaghe says the fighter is rebuilding himself the wrong way by entering fights with good fighters when coming off a bad loss.
“I’m not going to tell Enzo whether he should retire or not. At the end of the day I haven’t spoken to him since the fight. I feel really sad for him because it looks like it could be the end of his career. But you don’t become a bad fighter overnight. I just believe he has lost a lot of confidence and he needs to rebuild it. You can’t do that if you come out of the frying pan and into the fire against another undefeated fighter,” Calzaghe said.
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