JOE CALZAGHE has vowed to honour his retirement pledge and bow out unbeaten on Saturday night after defeating Roy Jones Jnr at Madison Square Garden.

Joe Calzaghe has confirmed he will contest one more fight before hanging up his gloves and retiring from boxing after his victory over Bernard Hopkins.

JOE CALZAGHE is one of the most reluctant champions to see his name up in lights on the Las Vegas Strip and Bernard Hopkins insists he does not compare to the previous British fighter who received top billing.

Joe Calzaghe has promised to end Bernard Hopkins' career when the pair clash in their big light-heavyweight showdown in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

SOMEONE’S ‘0’ had to go when the undefeated Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton went toe-to-toe but both victor and vanquished now face tough decisions about their futures, career choices that will have a knock-on effect for some of boxing’s biggest names.

BERNARD Hopkins should dismiss the mighty challenge of Joe Calzaghe and instead head into retirement after settling a long-standing score with American rival Roy Jones.

ONLY a big fight night in the Big Apple can start with Don King in a Santa Claus outfit and end with a promoter and his boxer both staking claims to fight the same man.

FIRST it was Floyd Mayweather, who reversed his own retirement decision before he had even had time to count his winnings from his super-fight against Oscar De La Hoya.

NEW world champion John Duddy will have to miss a return date at Madison Square Garden as he recovers from the toughest fight of his career.

It has been confirmed that former world champion Luis Ramon "Yory Boy" Campas will be next opponent for Derry man John Duddy when he steps back into the ring on September 29.

IRISH Ropes are lining up two more stern tests for John Duddy after the Derryman came through the successful defence of his WBC Continental Americas title in New York at the weekend.

RISING Irish middleweight star John Duddy has rounded off 2005 in perfect style and is destined for greater things in 2006, his manager believes.

America’s Ronald ‘Winky’ Wright produced a boxing masterclass to easily outpoint Felix Trinidad of Puerto Rico in a WBC middleweight title eliminator in Las Vegas.

America’s Ronald ‘Winky’ Wright produced a boxing masterclass to easily outpoint Felix Trinidad of Puerto Rico in a WBC middleweight title eliminator in Las Vegas.

Bernard Hopkins maintained his position as the undisputed middleweight champion of the world when becoming the first man to stop Oscar de la Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Brian Magee is expecting one of the hardest nights of his career on Saturday night when he defends his IBO super-middleweight title against Hacine Cherifi at Belfast’s King’s Hall.

REVENGE eluded Oscar de la Hoya as Shane Mosley shaded scored a narrow but unanimous 12-round decision to capture the WBA and WBC super welterweight championships.

Revenge eluded Oscar de la Hoya as Shane Mosley scored a narrow but unanimous 12-round decision to capture the WBA and WBC super welterweight championships.

Former IBF and WBA light-middleweight champion ‘Ferocious’ Fernando Vargas returned to action with a sixth-round stoppage of Canada’s Fitz Vanderpool in Los Angeles last night.

Felix Trinidad is quitting professional boxing.

Joe Calzaghe’s dreams of a Millennium Stadium superfight have come closer to reality after he won a unanimous decision against Charles Brewer to retain his WBO super-middleweight title in Cardiff.

Howard Eastman watched Lennox Lewis exact revenge from Hasim Rahman on Saturday night two hours after the Battersea man claimed to have been robbed out of the WBA middleweight title.

Evander Holyfield and WBA heavyweight champion John Ruiz will fight in Bejing on August 4.

Felix Trinidad remained on course to become one of boxing’s all-time greats when claiming the WBA middleweight title in New York.