On May 25, 2013, Mikkel Kessler and Carl Froch met again in a rematch.
Kessler came in to the fight on a 4-fight win streak with a 72% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 9 months and 13 days. Froch was on a 2-fight win streak with a 68% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 6 months and 8 days.
Carl Froch defeated Mikkel Kessler via unanimous decision in the rematch and unifies the WBA (Regular) and IBF super-middleweight titles. Froch improves his record to 31-2, while Kessler adds a loss to his record at 46-3.
On November 21, 2009, the 30-year-old WBA super-middleweight world champion, Mikkel Kessler (42-1, 32 KOs), faced a 25-year-old American boxer Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KOs), in a title defense fight.
Kessler came in to the fight on a 3-fight win streak with a 74% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 2 months and 9 days. Ward was on a 20-fight win streak with a 65% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 2 months and 9 days.
Andre Ward defeated Mikkel Kessler via technical decision and wins the WBA (Super) title — in his first world-title fight. Ward improves his record to 21-0, while Kessler adds a loss to his record at 42-2.
On November 3, 2007, the 28-year-old WBA (Super) and WBC super-middleweight champion, Mikkel Kessler (39-0, 29 KOs), and the 35-year-old WBO and The Ring super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (43-0, 32 KOs) met in a title-unification fight.
Kessler came in to the fight on a 39-fight win streak with a 74% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 7 months and 10 days. Calzaghe was on a 43-fight win streak with a 74% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 6 months and 27 days.
Joe Calzaghe defeated Mikkel Kessler via unanimous decision and unifies the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, and The Ring super-middleweight titles. Calzaghe improves his record to 44-0, while Kessler adds a loss to his record at 39-1.