Calzaghe Awarded CBE
Then Promptly Announces He Is Ducking Pavlik

By William Trillo
 

British boxing legend Joe Calzaghe has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list announced yesterday.
 
That came around the same time Joe made an announcement of his own in regard to a proposed super fight with Middleweight Kelly Pavlik, "I think it's unlikely," Calzaghe told the South Wales Argus. "I'm not sure if Pavlik really wants to face me at the moment. He would have little to gain because I believe I would definitely beat him.
 
On the CBE Award Calzaghe said, "The award came completely out of the blue and for the first time in my life I was knocked out!"
 
Keep fighting 40 something year old men Joe and you may keep that zero KO string alive.
 
"It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer," said Calzaghe.
 
Joe, keep ducking all the top fighters and they may start laughing again.
 

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