{"id":63589,"date":"2016-09-30T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63589"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:41:59","slug":"joe-calzaghe-stuns-boxing-world-with-comments-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63589","title":{"rendered":"Joe Calzaghe STUNS Boxing World with Comments – Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"joe-calzaghe-quotes\"<\/a>Joe Calzaghe is backing his countryman Nathan Cleverly (29-3, 15 KOs) to dethrone WBA World Light Heavyweight Champion Juergen Braehmer (48-2, 35 KOs) on Saturday night at the Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg, Germany.<\/p>\n

The legendary two-weight World Champion, who held WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring magazine titles during his undefeated forty-six-fight career, believes Cleverly \u2018speed\u2019 and \u2018work rate\u2019 will prove too much for the German veteran.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019This is a great opportunity for Nathan,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u2018\u2019Braehmer is a good boxer, but if Nathan fights an intelligent fight, and uses his hand speed and work rate, I definitely fancy him to win.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019If I was facing Braehmer, I would have done what I always did. I would have used my speed and my boxing ability, and I think I would have won comfortably.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019Nathan is a different kind of fighter, but if he plays to his strengths, I\u2019m sure he can get the job done. He\u2019s come back down to light heavyweight, he had a good fight against Fonfara, and now he\u2019s ready to get back into the World title mix.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019He\u2019s away, fighting in Germany, so he will need to start fast and dominate the rounds, as any 50-50 rounds will go to the home fighter, but I still fancy him to do it. We saw Enzo Maccarinelli giving Braehmer some trouble at home before his eye started to swell.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Calzaghe, who enjoyed some memorable nights overseas, most notably his 2008 Stateside victories over Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr, is also the last British boxer to have won a World title fight in Germany against German opposition.<\/p>\n

In 2005, the \u2018Italian Dragon\u2019 defended his WBO World title against mandatory challenger Mario Veit at the Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019That\u2019s another one for the record books,\u2019\u2019 he says. \u2018\u2019Hopefully Nathan can be the man to break that record and bring the World title home.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019It was a different type of fight for me. Mario Veit was my mandatory challenger. I had already knocked him out in the first round in Cardiff, and then he won about twelve on the bounce and got himself back into the mandatory position.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019I always knew I was going to knock him out again, and he went six-rounds the second time, but as I said it was a different situation for me. I came to Germany as the favourite, I dominated from the start and the crowd was pretty subdued. I expect that to be different for Nathan. He has to go over there and take the title from the Champion.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The WBA World Light Heavyweight contest between Juergen Braehmer and Nathan Cleverly will be shown live on SAT.1 in Germany and Sky Sports in the UK.<\/p>\n