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The Newbridge Boxing Club is a boxing gym operated by Enzo Calzaghe and based in Newbridge (Tre Celyn) in South Wales. The club has been one of the most successful of recent years, at one point in 2007 boasting three genuine world champions in Joe Calzaghe (WBO super-middleweight), Enzo Maccarinelli (WBO cruiserweight) and Gavin Rees (WBA light welterweight) . Other fighters of note who have won belts at the club include former Commonwealth light middleweight champion Bradley Pryce and former WBU champion and world title challenger Gary Lockett who retired in Sept 2008.〔(The Independent | Father and son team are a knockout combination )〕 〔(Setanta Sports | Gary Lockett retires )〕 ==The clubhouse== The club itself is in its second generation, as the original clubhouse, deemed unsafe by the local council, was demolished in 2002. Following the demolition, Joe and his father Enzo bought another clubhouse just a mile away in Cwmcarn and set about transforming an old rugby club into a boxing gym.〔(BBC Sport | End of an era for Calzaghe )〕 The club is situated near an industrial park next to a rugby pitch and reached by a set of wooden steps on which the boxers use to train. The sign greeting people is hand painted and trash dots the weedy yard.〔(LA Times | Their fights make the boxer p.22 )〕 This impression of the club does not meet expectations when people think about it being the training HQ for a World champion. According to a reporter from the LA Times who visited the clubhouse prior to Joe's clash with Bernard Hopkins, ''"in places, it’s just a few notches north of squalid"''. One reporter during the same press trip is alleged to have spotted a dead mouse floating in a sink.〔(LA Times | Their fights make the boxer p.23 )〕 Despite appearances Joe Calzaghe has described the place as feeling ''"like a palace"'' compared with the previous gym which had a ring made out of carpet and held up by broom handles.〔(The Guardian | Interview with Joe Calzaghe )〕 Prior to the move to the new clubhouse boxers had trained for years in what Joe describes as ''"the mangiest little building you could possibly imagine"'' with no heating, no showers, bad toilets and buckets to trap the rain.〔(LA Times | Their fights make the boxer p.19 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newbridge boxing club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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