Undefeated boxing champion retires
Published:Friday | February 6, 2009 | 9:11 AM
Undefeated world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight boxing champion Joe Calzaghe has announced his retirement.
The 36 year old Welshman, who reigned as a world champion for more than 11 years, quits the ring with a glittering record of 46 wins from 46 fights.
Calzaghe said the decision to quit was hard but he has achieved everything he wanted in boxing.
Calzaghe, who was born in London but moved to Wales when he was two, chalked up an impressive record as an amateur, winning 110 of his 120 contests after taking up the sport at age of nine.
He began his professional career with a first-round stoppage of Paul Hanlon on October 1, 1993, going on to win seven of his first nine bouts in round one.