📆2O YEAR ANNIVERSARY‼️ | Joe Calzaghe vs Jeff Lacy | Round 7 | IBF/WBO/RING Belts🥇

It’s been twenty years since Joe Calzaghe put on a career-best performance against unbeaten American, Jeff Lacy, at the Manchester Arena.

The Welshman had been WBO super middleweight champion for over eight years having beaten Chris Eubank for the vacant title in 1997.

Jeff Lacy was an unbeaten American who had been compared to Mike Tyson in size and was considered one of the hottest prospects in American boxing. He had won his IBF title in 2004 against Syd Vanderpool by TKO.

Most American journalists wrote off Joe’s chances of victory and the odds were against him despite having an equally perfect record. Having broken his hand in the fight prior he had even contemplated pulling out before his Father, and trainer, Enzo Calzaghe with promoter Frank Warren talked him round.

It was not only his best performance but one of the greatest witnessed on home soil.

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Eubank FLATTENS Yildirim in 3‼️ When Chris Eubank Jr faced the unbeaten Avni Yildirim in Germany nobody expected the …

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Chris Eubank Jr 25–1 (19 KO) vs Avni Yildirim 16–0 (10 KO) was a professional boxing match contested on 7 October 2017, for the IBO super middleweight championship. The bout was also a WBC super middleweight title eliminator.

At the WBSS draft Gala, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 8 July 2017, Chris Eubank Sr., picked the undefeated Avni Yıldırım to face his son, with the winner to face the winner of the all British clash between George Groves and Jamie Cox. The fight was confirmed following Eubank Jr’s win over Arthur Abraham on the 15 July. Promoter Kalle Sauerland said official confirmation of a venue and date would be announced in the coming weeks.
On 8 August 2017 it was announced that the fight would take place on 7 October at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart, Germany, marking it the second time Eubank would be fighting outside the UK since turning professional. It was also the second quarter final of the WBSS following Callum Smith’s victory over Erik Skoglund three weeks earlier.

During a pre fight press conference, Ahmet Öner, Yıldırım’s manager, got into a one-sided confrontation with Eubank’s camp. Öner called Eubank arrogant, threatened to knock someone out, and yelled “When you laugh, you son of a bitch, I fuck your wife in your bed!” at a man off-stage.

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On 27 October 2015, the long-awaited fight between Frampton and undefeated WBA (Regular) super-bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (31–0–2, 23 KOs) was being discussed according to both sides. The bout would be the biggest British fight since Froch vs. Groves in 2014.

According to multiple sources a few days later, a deal was finalised and a date in early 2016 was talked about. Although the promoters said the fight was a super-bantamweight unification, it was not officially sanctioned as one. This was due to Quigg holding the WBA (regular) title. Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux (16–0, 10 KOs) was officially recognised as the (super) champion by the WBA. It was believed that Frampton aligning with boxing manager and advisor Al Haymon may have helped get the deal across the line, due to the close relationship between him and Quigg’s promoter Eddie Hearn. The fight was discussed at the start on 2015. Quigg not accepting 60–40 in Frampton’s favour was one of the reasons it did not happen. Hearn’s response to this was the winner would take 60%. Barry McGuigan felt this was unfair to the fighters. He also claimed Quigg had never headlined a fight, whereas Frampton had sold out 16,000 arena shows in Belfast. Frampton was offered a £1.5 million take it or leave it.

On 2 November, the fight was officially announced to take place at the Phones4U Arena in Manchester on 27 February 2016, billed for the IBF and WBA super-bantamweight titles, on Sky Sports Box-Office. Both boxers spoke excitedly about the fight. Frampton discredited Quigg’s title, saying only his IBF belt was at stake. Frampton said, “I’m delighted that we have finally got this fight signed. I’m the legitimate champion and I’m going to his backyard to defend my title because that’s what champions do. Fans will find out who the real champion is, I’m going to win this fight in style.”
Frampton believed Quigg finally took the fight on the back of his own fight, where he was dropped in round one against Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. but won the fight via decision. Frampton called it a blessing in disguise. Frampton said he had been calling for a fight against Quigg since he was British champion four years ago. The IBF formally sanctioned the bout as a unification only on the condition that the winner of the bout would have 90 days to agree a deal with mandatory challenger, Japanese boxer Shingo Wake. On the other hand, the WBA Championships Committee announced Rigondeaux as ‘champion in recess’, due to his managerial and promotional issues and not having a fight scheduled.

Frampton and Quigg both weighed in at the arena in front of 3,000 fans on the Friday. Frampton had support from the traveling Irish fans, who made their presence known. Quigg weighed 121.6 pounds and Frampton weighed 121.7 pounds. There was a tense stare down during the face-off with neither fighter breaking eye-contact which last around the minute mark. It was eventually by Frampton who blew Quigg a kiss, then turned to face the crowd. Joe Gallagher and Shane McGuigan, the trainers of Quigg and Frampton, respectively, also had a stare down and small tussle at the weigh in. Later that day, it came to light that Frampton made a request for the Sky Sports broadcast team to not include an individual. No names were mentioned, however Frampton made it known in the past, person in question had been critical of them. The bookmakers had Frampton as a slight favourite going into the fight. There was still tension heading into fight night due to both boxers wanting the bigger dressing room. Quigg believed he should have the bigger room due to being the home fighter and Frampton fought his case due to being the bigger draw in the fight. There was reports to suggest Frampton could pull out of the fight. Quigg said it wasn’t an issue for him and that he’d get dressed at his house in Bury if it meant the fight would still take place. Eddie Hearn also said that they had to agree to multiple demands from team Frampton in order to get the fight over the line from having Frampton’s name on the left side of the poster, to having American judges and entering the ring second.

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