Naseem Hamed v MAB

barrera fought a very good disciplined fight, outboxing naz, fouling back when naz tried to cheap shot him, and winning a clear decision.

it didn't help that naz had left ingle and gotten with suarez in the corner, and also gotten lazy, but i'm not sure it would have mattered anyway.

 

its common knowledge that he had broken up with his team a few years prior and was past his best by the time he met Barrera

Add to that that Barrera put on one of the best boxing performances i've ever seen.

Hamed had no chance in hell

 

Hamed was bizarre in the build up.

He made somebody go out to south america to oversee the making of goat skinned green gloves.....then once Barrera chose a standard pair, Hamed decided he wanted to fight with them instead.

Then even in the dressing room he wasn't happy with gloves and wanted new ones.

Then he had his hands unwrapped and rewrapped.

Then as he got into the ring, he abandoned his jump over the ropes and just climbed through.


Not sure what happened to him, but something wasn't right.

 

Thats actually fascinating. Do you think things would have been different had he stuck with Brendan Ingle?

 

I don't remember hearing the stuff about the gloves before. What are you coming to sunny Watford for?

 

I'd love to know the thinking behind a lot of the stuff.

Was it ego/Deliberately unsettling Barrera or had Hamed just lost it??

Hamed banged on about the green gloves, saying they were the muslim colour and the goat skin is the best taste for the opponent to eat (haha) and he went to all that effort of making somebody fly across the world to oversee the production. Then all of a sudden he wanted the standard yellow pair that Barrera had already chosen........then all Naz's people stepped in and said that as champion, Hamed had first refusal on gloves, Naz started writing on the gloves Barrera had chosen to mark them as his. Naz even stood there grinning with the gloves on saying 'lovely fit'....at that point you'd just think he was trying to **** Barrera off.

Naz also seemed intent on making Barrera wait for the fight, the two camps got into a big row over how long Naz would take to enter the ring. They wanted 4 minutes, Naz wanted 10 minutes.

Then Naz got really fussy in the build up to the fight with his hands and gloves, with not long to go before the fight he was still punching the pads to see which gloves he wanted and then abandoned his jump because the glove wasn't right.

And as well, he had a big chat with Michael Buffer about what Buffer would say, what Naz would say and that this was more important than the fight!

 

When an egoist knows he gonna get schooled he does strange things?

 

It's interesting because there are two schools of thought here. Either it was nerves masquerading as ego or he really was just not at all bothered by MAB & held him in such contempt thought he could do what he wanted & still win.

 

Watching Naz in the build up, I really think he'd go it into his head that nobody could take his power and any match involving him was just a matter of how long it took him to catch the opponent with the big shots.

So I'd side with the contempt of MAB and thinking he'd win whatever happened.

 

Hamed never ends:-(


His fans will try and dismiss it but it was a CLEAR VICTORY for Barerra and EMBARRASSMENT for the then # 1 **** talking Hamed.


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naz never faced any elite competition ... he chose barrera instead of morales since barrera lost an it didnt pay off like all the other time.. he got whooped... i heard a few months back he balloned up to like 190lbs an was driving his car like over 100 miles an hours an got pulled over an taken to jail..... wat a down fall

 

not sure exactly what happened i doubt you will ever hear the truth from the prince himself, but maybe some of the people around him could tell us in the future.