CALZAGHE   vs.   KESSLER

WORLD SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

November 3, 2007 * Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales

LIVE ON HBO at SPECIAL TIME 9 P.M. ET / 6 P.M. PT

 

 

            LONDON (October 25, 2007) -- WBC/WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler may think he's the new sheriff in town, but WBO/The Ring magazine super middleweight champion JOE CALZAGHE, aka SOUTHPAW JOE C WALES, the division's longtime deadliest shot, is ready to lay down the law in arguably the biggest world title unification showdown of non-heavyweight champions since the Sugar Ray Leonard-Tommy Hearns welterweight rumble of 1981.

 

            "I'm poisonous" said Calzaghe.  "Training camp has gone so well, the Surgeon General asked me to wear a warning on my trunks for this fight: 'Fighting Joe Calzaghe can be hazardous to your career and your title reign.' Kessler will find out the hard way.  I'm going to fill his face full of leather and his heart full of pain.   

 

            "I just hope he shows up next week and takes his medicine like a man," continued Calzaghe.  "Every reporter who interviews me tells me the same thing,  they can't reach Kessler.  Is he in training camp or a witness protection program?  I expect Kessler to be elusive when we meet inside the ring, but what the hell is he hiding from now?  Even a groundhog pops his head out of his burrow occasionally. He's boxing's version of 'Where's Waldo?'  Poor Mikkel, on November 3 he'll have nowhere to hide."

 

             Calzaghe (43-0, 32 KOs), from Newbridge, Wales, and Kessler (39-0, 29 KOs), from Copenhagen, Denmark, collide Next Saturday!  November 3.  Promoted by Frank Warren in association with International Entertainment, the Calzaghe-Kessler world super middleweight championship will be broadcast live to the U.S. from Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales on HBO World Championship Boxing at a special time: 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT. Over 40,000 tickets have already been sold, shattering the European indoor record for a boxing event, which was set at  Calzaghe's last title defense, a third-round TKO victory over Peter Manfredo, Jr., on April 7. Over 35,000 tickets were sold for that fight.