It has been an amazing year for me, culminating in being crowned Sports Personality of the Year 2007.

My fight against Mikkel Kessler at the Millennium Stadium was the obvious highlight, unifying the super middleweight division in front of over 50,000 fight fans at the Millennium Stadium.

I also trounced Peter Manfredo in Cardiff back in April on another special night.

I have gone to 44 unbeaten in my career and am now dreaming of huge fights in the United States in 2008 with Americans Bernard Hopkins, Winky Wright and Jermain Taylor all possible opponents.

However, it hasn't just been Joe Calzaghe's year, 2007 has seen all eight members of our Team Calzaghe stable go unbeaten.

My father Enzo, Britain's coach of the year, now looks after three world champions, a number one contender in Gary Lockett and a Commonwealth champion.

We also have some of the finest young fighters in Britain and they've really progressed over the past 12 months.

Therefore this week I have decided to review our brilliant year!

Have a great Christmas and thanks for your support.

I truly thought that the Jeff Lacy fight would be my career highlight, the one that proved I am a special champion.

But I was wrong, because if the Lacy fight in 2006 was special, 2007 topped it easily!

It's been a fantastic year for me in the ring and has set me up perfectly to bow out of boxing in some style in 2008.

I knew I needed to fight in the spring and while Peter Manfredo was hardly my dream opponent, his profile from the Contender reality series in the US justified the fight for American TV.

It was a fairly comfortable night for me, winning by stoppage in the third round.

However, the worst did happen because while I was never going to lose, I did break my hand pretty nastily by cracking Manfredo in his head!

That meant a couple of months of frustration and ended any hopes I had of fighting three times.

It could actually have been a career ending injury; I had a nervous few weeks of waiting before a positive prognosis.

The next fight in November was worth the wait though, a huge one against Mikkel Kessler.

This was to be my night, a career defining fight in front of 50,000 at the Millennium Stadium, my legacy secured by my 21st world title defence.

To become the first man to unify the super middleweight division is something no one will ever be able to take away from me.

I also celebrated ten years as a champion in 2007, won both the BBC Wales and BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards and was given a special belt by Prince Charles.

Not bad!

However, the year really belonged to my father, trainer and mentor, Enzo Calzaghe.

Eight fighters and he didn't have a loser all year!

In total he was in the corner for 20 contests and everyone from our Newbridge stable was a winner.

He's the best coach in the sport today and I was so proud when he was named Coach of the Year.

We are all as good as we are because of his dedication, skill and motivation and I am proud to be his son.

It shows what a truly great coach he is in the way he's transformed guys like Gavin Rees and Bradley Pryce and made them into world class fighters.

They always had the talent, but dad's patience and approach transformed them as people as well as fighters.

We always talk about Team Calzaghe as a team effort, but it is dad and his trainers - like my Uncle Sergio - who really deserve the plaudits.

Next year it is highly possible that we will have maybe five world champions all coming from one tiny gym in Newbridge. It's a staggering prospect.

I feel proud of my achievements and thank my dad for them.

12-21-2007