Just shows you can be tough and brave in a boxing ring but a complete coward when it really it comes down to it.
Both are motivated by self-interest. Bravery in the ring and cowardice in that context. He's full of himself.
That’s over the top. Whilst I’m no fan of Naz the person, he was my era, and what ultimately beat Naz was Naz himself. Post-Robinson the opposition got tougher, but he still went on to collect the belts. By the time of Barrera though, his ego was in the stratosphere, as the documentary showed, and he’d long since plateaued ability-wise as the discipline slipped, especially once the wealth and fame arrived. There have been plenty like Naz in the sport historically, the fame and money just magnified what he always was.
Naz was elite and at one point he was big time. He's many other things but you can't deny that for a period he was the real deal.
Exactly, people who were around at the time saw it, if anything he never hit the heights predicted for him and underachieved. I was at uni when he was coming through, and he was the last real superstar built on terrestrial TV. Even my housemates, who weren’t boxing fans, couldn’t help but be not just entertained but impressed. Had a bunch of Welsh mates at uni as well who couldn’t believe just how easily he dominated Steve, and it was only when he got put down by Alicea, then had the struggle with Medina, that the boxing press really started to voice any doubts. Prior to that he was being written about as an all-time great in the making. He had that run on ITV before the Robinson fight, which was the first on Sky. I remember we went to the pub to watch it, nursing a pint like students do, but during that run he genuinely felt like a superstar in the making. Weird how I recall nights out by looking up a fighter’s record, Naz, Hatton and Lennox carried British boxing in the late 90s and early 2000s, as Eubank, Benn and Bruno faded into retirement.