Joe Calzaghe
Welsh boxer
乔·卡尔扎合 · ジョー・カルザゲ · 조 칼자게
- Born
- 23 March 1972, Hammersmith
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- light heavyweight, super middleweight, light middleweight
- Occupation
- boxer
- Height
- 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
- Recorded fight record
- 46 wins, 0 losses
Joseph William Calzaghe ( kal-ZA-gee; born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including unified and lineal titles at super-middleweight, and the Ring magazine light-heavyweight title.
Calzaghe is the longest reigning super middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title for over 10 years and defending it against 20 opponents (a record in the division, shared with Sven Ottke) before moving up to light-heavyweight. As his super-middleweight and light-heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active boxer at the time. Calzaghe was the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the inaugural Ring champion in that weight class.
Awards and honours
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 2007
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 2014
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- IBF World Super Middleweight Champion
- The Ring World Light Heavyweight Champion
- The Ring World Super Middleweight Champion
- WBA World Super Middleweight Champion
- WBC World Super Middleweight Champion
- WBO World Super Middleweight Champion
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q471383 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.