Joe Calzaghe is one of Britain’s best ever boxers, but one former champion thinks he could have beaten him.
Calzaghe fought 46 times and never lost in the ring. He cleaned out the super middleweight division and ruled as champion for a decade while making a record 20 defences of his title, beating the likes of Chris Eubank Sr, Jeff Lacy and Mikkel Kessler.
For his final two fights, he moved up to the light heavyweight division and also beat two more legends in Roy Jones Jr and Bernard Hopkins before retiring in 2008 and being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014.
Speaking to Froch on Fighting, former two-weight ruler Andre Ward was asked by his own rival Carl Froch how he thought he would have fared against Calzaghe, and he backed himself to be victorious.
“Of course, I believe I win. I have to think like that as a competitor. I think I would find a way to figure it out. That would be a tough fight, man.
“You know all the stuff with Joe, the speed, the punch count, the toughness, and he come in tip-top shape, very, very tough fight for both of us. Tremendous fight.”
Ward competed from 2004 to 2017 and also retired undefeated, having beaten the likes of Kessler, Froch and Arthur Abraham in the super super-middleweight division before moving up to light heavyweight and bettering then long reigning champion Sergey Kovalev in back-to-back contests before he then hung up his gloves, though he has recently teased a return.
