"He could have been as good as Ali," says Ingle. "But Naz turned into a nightmare." He began to abuse colleagues at the gym, stopped training and treated his mentor with contempt. One incident, among many, stands out. A sports journalist had arranged to spar with Hamed for a feature. "I said to Naz: 'Just mess around.' But he beat the s*** out of him before I could stop him," says Ingle. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-404305/Prince-Naseems-fall-grace.html#ixzz24tqUmhqG [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMo8py9zJRU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMo8py9zJRU[/ame] dude had ATG type talent
Frank ******, someone in boxing of whom very few knew Naseem Hamed better. “I think at one stage he was the most exciting fighter that I’d ever been involved with. At one stage, in the early part of his career, he could have gone on to become one of the great fighters. But that disappeared when he didn’t fight as regularly as he should have done, when he was cutting corners on his training. It just didn’t work out for him from that point on.”
u read a lot of stories about this. floyds pretty much an act. hamed was dead serious about it. LOL [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_vmGU-ooA[/ame]