Right time for Calzaghe to bow out?


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A decade at the top of the super middleweights. Forty-six wins, no defeats, the names of ring legends Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jnr added to an already impressive list of victims. Joe Calzaghe, the "Welsh Dragon", has done it all. Now is a fitting time to bring the curtain down on a glittering career. But will he be tempted back into the ring like so many greats before him, only to find he will never reach the impeccable standards he reached before? What other fights are there still out there for him? A catchweight fight with the "Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya?

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