ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you Brian Doogan, Tim Andrews and Random House for helping put this book together and for sharing a few laughs along the way.

Thanks to all those who have helped me in my career down the years, from the sparring partners to my gym mates, Enzo, Gavin, Bradley and Nathan, thanks for being real mates. Frank Warren has done a great job in guiding my career through twenty successful defences of the WBO super middleweight title and to him, Ed, Andy, Dennis, Richard, Emma and all at Sports Network, a special word of thanks. My dad introduced me to boxing and he has been my trainer all my life. You know how much you mean to me, Dad, for without you we would never have shared this incredible journey. Mum, I know you’ve always worried but you won’t have to worry much longer, I’ll be retired soon, which might not please my boys, Joe and Connor, but I’m more proud of you than you are of me. My sisters Melissa and Sonia, and my girlfriend, Jo-Emma, thanks for being there and John Salerno, I may still need you one day for sparring, mate. My godfather Uccio, Uncle Serge, and my cousins Andre and Sergio, thanks for accompanying me on the road, and thank you, Grandad, for beginning it all.

Brian Doogan would like to thank Joe Calzaghe, Enzo Calzaghe, Tim Andrews, Jackie Calzaghe, Jo-Emma, Patrick Myler, Steve Farhood, Nigel Collins, Alex Butler, Neil Bramwell, Frank Warren, Richard Maynard, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Ron Bodie, Dave Smith, Pat Sheehan, John Wragg, Russell Padmore, Gerry Hand, David Moore, Chris Moore, Janine Self, Neil Moxley, Dave Harrison, Ray Matts, John Curtis, Adria Milledge, Ralph Ellis, David Walsh, Kevin Palmer, Nick Pitt, John Rawling, Colin Hart, Hugh McIlvanney, Barry McGuigan, Steve Bunce, the late Martin Woods, Alan Hubbard, Matthew Prior, Gareth Evans, Daniel Herbert, Claude Abrams, Bob Mee, Peter Watts, James Mossop, Jeff Powell, Alan Hunter, Terry Smith, Jay Larkin, Fred Burcombe, Frank Wiechula, Mike Lewis, Ron Lewis, all his colleagues on the boxing beat, and the crew who helped him through this project, Steve, Jag, Gerry, Dorothy, Mark, Paul, May and John, Tom and Cokey, Michelle, Thomas, Anne, Kevin, Mary, Margaret, and Michael and Celia.