Without this WAG, there would be no big fight this weekend

After a thoroughly messy divorce in 2005, Joe Calzaghe very nearly gave up boxing: “If I’m made to pay her 50 per cent of all my future purses then what’s the point of boxing? The taxman already takes the other 50 per cent!” Throughout the separation debacle, however, he was given the strength to carry on by actress and model Jo-Emma Lavin. The twenty-seven-year-old Welsh beauty, who is lucky enough to have two Christian names, attends every fight and is the main reason he gets in the squared circle today:

“Jo-Emma really gave me the added belief to keep going. She just kept telling me I could do it.”

Jo-Emma is described as an ‘actress and model’, although her IMDB profile suggests she has not had the most prolific career on the screen or stage. She will, however, feature as a barmaid in the final instalment of the God-awful Goal trilogy, which will be going straight to DVD sometime next year.

Spoiler bonus: If you are planning to pick Jo-Emma out of the crowd in Las Vegas at the weekend, simply look for a brunette with big fake boobs. Actually, that kind of detail won’t help in a Vegas crowd, so you’d best study these pictures too.

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