Nigel Benn has been reflecting on his storied career but has revealed there is one man he feels he would never have beaten.

Benn competed from 1987 to 1996 and, in that time, became a two-weight world champion, first winning the WBO middleweight title in 1990 before later moving up to super-middleweight, where he ruled as WBC king from 1992 to 1996.

Along the way, Benn famously fought Chris Eubank twice – losing once and drawing in the rematch – beat Gerald McLellan and lost twice in his final two contests to Steve Collins before retiring in 1996 with a knockout-to-win percentage of 83.3%.

Speaking to Boxing Scene, ‘The Dark Destroyer’ was honest about the fact that he thinks had he faced undefeated two-weight world champion Joe Calzaghe, he might not have come out on top.

“Joe struggled against nobodies. But when he stepped up in class to fight the likes of Jeff Lacy, for instance, he made them look like nobodies. I’d have loved him to have been around in my heyday. I’ll be honest enough to admit I think he would have beaten me – he’d have been in a fight though,”

Welsh southpaw Calzaghe is one of Britain’s greatest ever fighters. He fought 46 times and beat every man he faced, including holding the WBO title for more than a decade.

He defended the belt a total of 20 times and in his final two fights moved up to beat the American legends Roy Jones Jr and Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight, where he claimed and then defended the Ring light-heavyweight title before retiring in 2008.