"Joe Calzaghe, known as ""The Pride of Wales"", was a boxing world champion in which category?"
Joe Calzaghe continual time as world champion of any active fighter. He was also the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (WBA, WBC, and WBO) at super-middleweight. Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was rated by "The Ring" as one of the world's top ten active boxers, pound for pound, reaching a peak ranking of third in January 2009. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, and as a reigning world champion. BoxRec currently ranks Calzaghe as the best British super-middleweight of all time. Calzaghe was often referred to as the "Pride of Wales" or the
Boxing in Wales Gavin Rees former WBA light-welterweight champion and Enzo Maccarinelli former WBO and WBU cruiserweight champion. Boxing in Wales Boxing is a popular sport in Wales, and since the early 20th century Wales has produced a notable number of professional boxers including several World Champions. The most notable boxers include Wales' first World Champion Percy Jones; Jimmy Wilde, who is seen as pound-for-pound one of the World's finest boxers and Joe Calzaghe, who ended his career an undefeated World Champion. Despite the sport of boxing in Wales being heavily identified with the industrial south, it was a common pastime in pre-industrial