{"id":26582,"date":"2026-03-04T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/i-felt-amazing-joe-calzaghe-reflects-on-beating-jeff-lacy-20-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:34:52","slug":"i-felt-amazing-joe-calzaghe-reflects-on-beating-jeff-lacy-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/i-felt-amazing-joe-calzaghe-reflects-on-beating-jeff-lacy-20-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I felt amazing&#8217; &#8211; Joe Calzaghe reflects on beating Jeff Lacy 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport Wales sits down with Joe Calzaghe to talk about the 20th anniversary of his caree- defining performance as he dismantled American Jeff Lacy in Manchester on 4 March, 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A heavy underdog against an undefeated fighter, Calzaghe landed more than 1,000 punches and won every round as he produced one of the all-time great performances from a British boxer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welshman went on to retire undefeated, with an unblemished career record of 46-0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/videos\/c627vpzm5yxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Sport Wales sits down with Joe Calzaghe to talk about the 20th anniversary of his caree- defining performance as he dismantled American Jeff Lacy in Manchester on 4 March, 2006. A heavy underdog against an undefeated fighter, Calzaghe landed more than 1,000 punches and won every round as he produced one of the all-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26584,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582\/revisions\/26584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}