{"id":235372,"date":"2025-07-03T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235372\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:15:14","slug":"nigel-benn-predicts-roberto-duran-vs-joe-calzaghe-fight-well-never-see-anyone-like-him-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235372\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Benn Predicts Roberto Duran vs Joe Calzaghe Fight: “We’ll Never See Anyone Like Him Again”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Calzaghe<\/a> vs. Roberto Duran<\/a> is a fantasy fight that has been speculated by boxing fans over the years.<\/p>\n

Calzaghe is a former long-time super-middleweight ruler<\/a>, holding world honours at 168lbs for over a decade. He claimed victories over the likes of Mikkel Kessler and Chris Eubank Sr, before then heading to light heavyweight and defeating Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr.<\/p>\n

As for Duran, he was a four-division world champion, winning world titles at lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, but did compete as high as 175lba during his legendary career.<\/p>\n

He was one of the \u2018Four Kings\u2019 alongside Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns, with the group involved in epic battles with one another throughout the 1980s.<\/p>\n

One man who has given his take on how a Calzaghe vs. Duran fight may have gone is two-weight world champion Nigel Benn, who held gold at middleweight and super-middleweight in his career.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Sun<\/a>, Benn revealed that he would have backed the Welshman to have defeated Duran, along with the rest of the \u2018Four Kings.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cOld timers will tell you [Calzaghe] would never have lived with Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler or Tommy \u2018Hitman\u2019 Hearns. I disagree \u2014 Joe would have beaten them all. How many fighters would love to finish with a record like Joe\u2019s? Outside of Wales, I don\u2019t think he got the recognition he deserved. Forty-six fights unbeaten is a heck of an achievement. I don\u2019t think we will ever see his like again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another fighter that Calzaghe has been linked to over the years is Carl Froch, and some of boxing\u2019s biggest names have already predicted how that may have gone.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Calzaghe vs. Roberto Duran is a fantasy fight that has been speculated by boxing fans over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-235372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114790670418723635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}