Won 46 (KOs 32)  |  Lost 0

Drawn 0  |  Bouts 46

Rounds 262  |  Debut 1993-10-01

46 Win (46-0) vs Roy Jones Jr.
UD 12 | 8 Nov 2008
Retained The Ring light-heavyweight title

45 Win (45-0) vs Bernard Hopkins
SD 12 | 19 Apr 2008
Won The Ring light-heavyweight title

44 Win (44-0) vs Mikkel Kessler
UD 12 | 3 Nov 2007
Retained WBO and The Ring super-middleweight titles, won WBA (Super) and WBC super-middleweight titles

43 Win (43-0) vs Peter Manfredo Jr.
TKO 3 (12), 1:30 | 7 Apr 2007
Retained WBO and The Ring super-middleweight titles

42 Win (42-0) vs Sakio Bika
UD 12 | 14 Oct 2006
Retained WBO, IBF, and The Ring super-middleweight titles

41 Win (41-0) vs Jeff Lacy
UD 12 | 4 Mar 2006
Retained WBO super-middleweight title, won IBF and inaugural The Ring super-middleweight titles

40 Win (40-0) vs Evans Ashira
UD 12 | 10 Sep 2005
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

39 Win (39-0) vs Mario Veit
TKO 6 (12), 2:18 | 7 May 2005
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

38 Win (38-0) vs Kabary Salem
UD 12 | 22 Oct 2004
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

37 Win (37-0) vs Mger Mkrtchyan
TKO 7 (12), 1:05 | 21 Feb 2004
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

36 Win (36-0) vs Byron Mitchell
TKO 2 (12), 2:36 | 28 Jun 2003
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

35 Win (35-0) vs Tocker Pudwill
TKO 2 (12), 0:39 | 14 Dec 2002
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

34 Win (34-0) vs Miguel Ángel Jiménez
UD 12 | 17 Aug 2002
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

33 Win (33-0) vs Charles Brewer
UD 12 | 20 Apr 2002
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

32 Win (32-0) vs Will McIntyre
TKO 4 (12), 0:45 | 13 Oct 2001
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

31 Win (31-0) vs Mario Veit
TKO 1 (12), 1:52 | 28 Apr 2001
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

30 Win (30-0) vs Richie Woodhall
TKO 10 (12), 0:28 | 16 Dec 2000
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

29 Win (29-0) vs Omar Sheika
TKO 5 (12), 2:08 | 12 Aug 2000
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

28 Win (28-0) vs David Starie
UD 12 | 29 Jan 2000
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

27 Win (27-0) vs Rick Thornberry
UD 12 | 5 Jun 1999
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

26 Win (26-0) vs Robin Reid
SD 12 | 13 Feb 1999
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

25 Win (25-0) vs Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra
RTD 9 (12), 3:00 | 25 Apr 1998
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

24 Win (24-0) vs Branko Sobot
TKO 3 (12), 1:35 | 24 Jan 1998
Retained WBO super-middleweight title

23 Win (23-0) vs Chris Eubank
UD 12 | 11 Oct 1997
Won vacant WBO super-middleweight title

22 Win (22-0) vs Luciano Torres
TKO 3 (10), 0:52 | 5 Jun 1997

21 Win (21-0) vs Tyler Hughes
KO 1 (10), 2:04 | 22 Mar 1997

20 Win (20-0) vs Carlos Christie
TKO 2 (10), 1:39 | 21 Jan 1997

19 Win (19-0) vs Pat Lawlor
TKO 2 (10), 1:55 | 15 May 1996

18 Win (18-0) vs Warren Stowe
TKO 2 (8), 3:00 | 4 May 1996

17 Win (17-0) vs Mark Delaney
TKO 5 (12) | 20 Apr 1996
Retained British super-middleweight title

16 Win (16-0) vs Anthony Brooks
TKO 2 (10) | 13 Mar 1996

15 Win (15-0) vs Guy Stanford
TKO 1 (10), 1:24 | 13 Feb 1996

14 Win (14-0) vs Stephen Wilson
TKO 8 (12), 2:18 | 28 Oct 1995
Won vacant British super-middleweight title

13 Win (13-0) vs Nick Manners
TKO 4 (8), 2:20 | 30 Sep 1995

12 Win (12-0) vs Tyrone Jackson
TKO 4 (8), 1:08 | 8 Jul 1995

11 Win (11-0) vs Robert Curry
TKO 1 (8), 1:29 | 19 May 1995

10 Win (10-0) vs Bobbie Joe Edwards
PTS 8 | 22 Feb 1995

9 Win (9-0) vs Frank Minton
KO 1 (8), 1:25 | 14 Feb 1995

8 Win (8-0) vs Trevor Ambrose
TKO 2 (8) | 30 Nov 1994

7 Win (7-0) vs Mark Lee Dawson
TKO 1 (8) | 1 Oct 1994

6 Win (6-0) vs Karl Barwise
TKO 1 (6) | 4 Jun 1994

5 Win (5-0) vs Darren Littlewood
TKO 1 (6) | 1 Mar 1994

4 Win (4-0) vs Martin Rosamond
TKO 1 (6) | 22 Jan 1994

3 Win (3-0) vs Spencer Alton
TKO 2 (4) | 16 Dec 1993

2 Win (2-0) vs Paul Mason
TKO 1 (4) | 10 Nov 1993

1 Win (1-0) vs Paul Hanlon
TKO 1 (4) | 1 Oct 1993

Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and defending the title 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 also the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (WBA, WBC, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the first Ring champion in that weight class.

Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was ranked by The Ring as one of the world’s top ten active boxers, pound for pound, reaching a peak ranking of third in January 2009. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, and as a reigning world champion. As of 2021, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the thirteenth greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the greatest European boxer of all time.

In 2007, Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, making him the first Welsh winner of this award since David Broome in 1960. Calzaghe was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. He was nicknamed the “Pride of Wales” and the “Italian Dragon”.

Coverphoto: Ben Duffy, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Source text: Wikipedia Joe Calzaghe.