Mr Calzaghe Page #3

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gonna quit? You can't quit. "

I mean, you know, we're near to

a record deal and stuff like that.

He said, "No, no. I'm,

I'm gonna train my son. "

Like, I was a bit shocked, you know.

'Cause he didn't have

that experience, you know?

I said "Joe, what shall we do?

"Paul's gone"

He said "Crack on, Dad!

Just get on with it. "

F*** 'em, you know? Get on with it.

So, he gave me the power of

thinking we could still do it.

Round two of

the ABA Welterweight Final.

Wearing the red singlet, the Welsh

champion Joe Calzaghe, who's only 19,

trained by his father;

Enzo, Italian ancestry.

Let's see if/

can be a part of him.

Let's see if I can be a trainer.

Let's see if I can be a pusher.

Calzaghe. In the blue corner.

Joe needed a push.

And I can push.

Ca/zaghe, probably

the only boxer in the world

with a singer-songwriter as a trainer.

Stop! Stop!

And it's been stopped.

And Joe Calzaghe has won

another ABA Championship.

Everybody knew he was talented.

He's a one and only.

I, I don't believe

it's been done before.

No one's ever done it at

three different weights.

I'll be the first.

He is one of those boxers

who, uh, has no doubt at all in his mind

when he goes into the ring, that he's

going to be the dominant character.

Soaking up punch after punch.

So it's all over, and it looks pretty

clear that Joe Calzaghe has done it again.

To win three titles in a

row at different weights.

Joe had his own style.

He was a southpaw, obviously.

So... And very adept and very athletic.

But he had a father who was not

classically trained as an amateur boxer,

but he'd been in the musical

world playing in a band.

He's got that energy about him.

But what it did was, he transferred

a lot of musical movement

into Joe throwing five, six

and seven-punch combinations.

Doesn't every song

start off with a verse?

# Change your heart... #

\/Vhich is...

Jab, jab...

After the verse, it got a bit late.

Bring it forward, bring it forvvard

Then you've got the chorus.

One, two, three, four, five, Wham,

wham, wham, bam, bam, knockout punch.

Round one.

/remember I turned

professional in 1993.

I think I was 21.

First pro fight was, um, in

the stadium, Cardiff Arms Park.

I remember boxing a

guy called Pau/ Han/on.

Joe Calzaghe.

How good is he going to be here in

this Super Middleweight Division?

Yeah, /boxed on

the, on the undercard

of Frank Bruno and uh, Lennox Lewis.

And I won in the first round.

Obviously, I stayed on after to watch the

fight with Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno,

and, you know, to be there

when the crowd was full

and the sense of atmosphere was amazing.

And it was giving me tingles,

and I used to think to myself,

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