Calzaghe Clan

Well, there has been huge demand for boxing on BBC of late. I'm not sure this will totally satisfy everyone but it might be a step in the right direction.

So, for those who are interested, BBC Wales is available in all regions via Satellite Channel 972 and I would imagine it will be on the iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n55q6

Calzaghe Clan Episode 1 of 4
Mon 5 Oct 2009 22:35 BBC One (Wales only)
Enzo Calzaghe - father and coach of undefeated World Champion Joe Calzaghe, and head of a large extended family in South
Wales. This is Enzo's story: how he coached his son without ever boxing himself, his plans to become a boxing
promoter, and his first career as a rock and roll musician.
In the first episode of the series, Enzo sets up his first fight night in Merthyr, and travels with friends and family to Sardinia to visit his father.

 

Taken from the Official BBC Press Release:

CALZAGHE CLAN
Monday, October 5, BBC ONE Wales, 10.35pm
bbc.co.uk/wales

Joe Calzaghe was Britain's most successful world champion boxer and remained undefeated over a glittering 16 year professional career. Over all those years there was one constant - his father and trainer Enzo Calzaghe. And a new four part series for BBC ONE Wales, Calzaghe Clan (Monday, October 5, 10.35pm), will tell Enzo's story.

Programme makers had unprecedented access to Enzo, his family and friends over the past year to find out just what it's like to be part of the Calzaghe Clan.

"In 1990 this crazy musician took over as my coach! Everybody was telling me to move on, get a professional, but I stuck with him because he taught me the basics and taught me how to box in the first place," says Joe.
Calzaghe Clan follows Enzo's story from the family first moving to the Italian community in Bedford and on to his eventual move to Newbridge in Gwent - where a man who had never boxed in his life coached his son to become the undefeated champion of the world and created the legendary Calzaghe boxing gym.

"Enzo never had a boxing bout ever," says his brother Uccio.
"The only boxing bout that Enzo ever had was with me. So it must have been within himself, instinct. He didn't read boxing books, he didn't do anything like that, but it was like this Lennon and McCartney team."
Before taking the boxing world by storm Enzo came to the UK as a rock n' roll musician, who along with his brothers Uccio and Sergio had dreams of stardom. Signed to the Barron Knight's management team, the Calzaghe's were on the edge of a major American tour, when Enzo pulled the plug. "If he didn't do it maybe Joe wouldn't have happened," says Uccio.
Brian Doogan, sports writer and Calzaghe family biographer has a few insights into Enzo's personality.

"He's just irrepressible I think that's one word you would definitely associate with Enzo," he says.

"I think he's lived his life how he's wanted to live his life and there's no compromise there. I think that's an essential part of his character. Everyone else has to yield to that essence of his character. If Mussolini had more of a dictatorial complex I'd be very surprised! Everybody yields to him."

"To me I've always been on adrenaline," says Enzo. "I think that's what keeps me alive. I don't know myself. I actually look in the mirror and I question myself. I mean I do and I say 'what have I done that for?' I've got a split personality probably, I don’t know. But I fire, I don't hold back. I don't hold nothing back."

Also look out for the moment Chris Sanigar pushes Joe out of the way back stage at the First Calzaghe Promotion. Joe's face is a picture, priceless.