Season 5: #50 Joe Calzaghe

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

The Welsh Dragon, Joe Calzaghe, one of the great fighters of the modern era and one of the finest ever fighters from Britain, reflects on his incredible Hall of Fame career, and Calzaghe brings the curtain down on Boxing Life Stories. For now.

Joe talks about his dad's tea – with lumpy milk – that raised the eyebrows of the travelling HBO crew, why Joe 'The Cat' Calzaghe never happened, how nervous he was for Strictly Come Dancing, life as an introvert, the loss of his parents and his legacy. He talks about the challenges that sportsmen face in retirement and becoming a father again, to another son, called Enzo.

Intro – 0.00-4.08
Calzaghe interview – 4.08-1.39.02
Closing thoughts – 1.39.02-1.45.41
Reflections on Boxing Life Stories with Lee Blasdale (Hanson Lee Resourcing) and Derek Andrews (Delco Safety Compliance) 1.45.42-2.49.10
Sign off – 2.49.10

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0:48.6	Madsen Square Garden. No one who was my last fight. And it's the same after the fight and
0:58.2	give Dad a beak hug. Because I knew that was my last fight. Like I said, it wasn't like, it was my last fight like I said it wasn't like it was my last fight and to I remember like going into the
1:07.6	the Madison screen I was close to tears like it was like emotional
1:11.2	I was walking around as we put the ring together all by myself and just in my
1:16.5	thoughts just looking around. I was sort of getting emotional you know thinking this is it.
1:24.0	I say again, you know,
1:27.0	I say again, you know, he's not only my trainer, the train took me the gym
1:32.0	as a nine-year-old you know he's my
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