NEW YORK—Joe Calzaghe remembers fighting in small halls in Britain, ducked by the world’s best fighters, unable to get unification bouts and big paydays that he always believed he was due.

It was just a couple of years ago.

But now that the undefeated Welsh icon has ventured to America, dethroning two of its proudest champions of the past 15 years, Calzaghe finds himself thrust into the glaring spotlight—finally, at long last, even if a bit too late.

The popular Calzaghe battered and bloodied Roy Jones Jr. in a one-sided unanimous decision Saturday night in ...

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