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March saw an event almost as significant, plus rarer, than Haley's Comet as two unbeaten, world-rated, super-middleweights collided in a title unification fight here in Manchester.
Now Joe hopes to build on this win with a fight against Sakio Bika in the very same city.
Although on the flip-side Joe’s impressive inroad on the division number one spot will be overshadowed when Mikkel Kessler and Markus Beyer fight to unify two of the more traditional titles (WBA/WBC respectively).
Joe Calzaghe, the long unbeaten pride of Wales, took on Jeff Lacy in March and I am tempted to say the two men fought but that would be a misnomer; Joe Calzaghe fought, Jeff Lacy, conversely, copped a beating. Some experts, and people like myself who aspire to some level of expertise in this sport of ours, had predicted a one-sided whipping administered by the American heir apparent Lacy.
Calzaghe had long endured the slings of brittle bone structure and the arrows of wayward matchmaking yet in his decisive moment he had emerged the clear victor has had his promoter Frank Warren. Warren had been criticised for, allegedly, keeping Joe under wraps to protect his investments only to confound that criticism and leave us thinking that maybe he had been protecting other super-middles from a shellacking at the hands of Calzaghe.
Joe had been kept bubbling under and had come to boil at exactly the right moment, American critics were silenced and British fans were, truly and emphatically, converted. Joe had been moved correctly after all. Flowers blossom and grow the world over under varying conditions and it seems that the Calzaghe team, including Joe's forthright father, who called the Lacy fight spot-on, had carefully germinated his career so it could flourish during a fine final few furlongs. [details]
Now Joe hopes to build on this win with a fight against Sakio Bika in the very same city.
Although on the flip-side Joe’s impressive inroad on the division number one spot will be overshadowed when Mikkel Kessler and Markus Beyer fight to unify two of the more traditional titles (WBA/WBC respectively).
Joe Calzaghe, the long unbeaten pride of Wales, took on Jeff Lacy in March and I am tempted to say the two men fought but that would be a misnomer; Joe Calzaghe fought, Jeff Lacy, conversely, copped a beating. Some experts, and people like myself who aspire to some level of expertise in this sport of ours, had predicted a one-sided whipping administered by the American heir apparent Lacy.
Calzaghe had long endured the slings of brittle bone structure and the arrows of wayward matchmaking yet in his decisive moment he had emerged the clear victor has had his promoter Frank Warren. Warren had been criticised for, allegedly, keeping Joe under wraps to protect his investments only to confound that criticism and leave us thinking that maybe he had been protecting other super-middles from a shellacking at the hands of Calzaghe.
Joe had been kept bubbling under and had come to boil at exactly the right moment, American critics were silenced and British fans were, truly and emphatically, converted. Joe had been moved correctly after all. Flowers blossom and grow the world over under varying conditions and it seems that the Calzaghe team, including Joe's forthright father, who called the Lacy fight spot-on, had carefully germinated his career so it could flourish during a fine final few furlongs. [details]