“There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.”

Welsh former professional boxer

Joe Calzaghe is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He is known for winning multiple world championships in two weight classes and for holding unified and lineal titles at super-middleweight, as well as The Ring magazine light-heavyweight title. Over the course of his career, Calzaghe built a record that placed him among the leading fighters of his era. His name is most closely associated with sustained success at world level, especially in the super-middleweight division, where he held multiple major titles, and later at light-heavyweight, where he added another recognised championship.