Friday, 3 ET -- Duke McKenzie
As a youngster in England, I remember watching Duke McKenzie win the IBF flyweight title from Rolando Bohol in 1988. He had an up-and-down career after that, losing the title to Dave McAuley, winning and losing the WBO bantamweight title and failing in bids for super bantamweight and featherweight belts.
He now works as a ringside analyst for the BBC and is covering the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe bout for BBC Radio 5.
Unlike a lot of his countrymen -- and a lot of Americans, for that matter -- McKenzie picks Hopkins to win on Saturday night.
Here's what he told me:
"I think it's a bad fight for Joe. I personally believe Hopkins is all wrong for him. He makes good fighters look ordinary. I'm not suggesting for one moment that Calzaghe is an ordinary fighter; he's not. His record speaks for itself. He's one of the elite fighters in the world. I just think Calzaghe has underestimated Hopkins. Although he's 43, age isn't really a factor in this fight. It isn't as if Joe is 28. He's 36 and he's had 44 fights. At some point in his career, that's going to catch up with him.
"I just think that this particular fight is wrong for Joe Calzaghe. He's not at home any more. He's not in Cardiff in front of 50,000 people. He's away from home for only the second time in his career.
"Hopkins is the master at mind games; he's been playing it all the way through. I think he's sort of played Joe like a fiddle. I'm not saying that Joe completely bit [the bait], but at some point it's going to hit home. And that point will be when Joe has his ringwalk. The realization of this fight is really going to kick in. He can say he's not nervous all he wants, but as a former world champion I know what it's like. Of course you suffer anxieties and the unknown; of course you're nervous.
"This sort of tinsel town that we're in now, it's all new to him. I can remember my first time fighting in Vegas, and the way it made me feel emotionally and that playing on my mind. All right, I won the fight, but I was in a six-round fight; I wasn't topping the bill like Joe is. If I were a gambling man, I would be backing Bernard Hopkins." -- Kieran Mulvaney