The Truth about Prince Naseem Hamed.

Great post. :good

IMO Hamed should get into the HoF. Not for his career but for bringing attention and money to the lower weightclasses.

 

great great post. nice to see some respect for the prince. a fighter who made the little men a must see attraction.

 

For as long as people talk about boxing, people will talk about Prince Naseem.

 

Great Post !!!

and Prince Hamed is For me HOF No Doubt !!! i look something Hamed Fights i can look his fights again again and again ....... Great Boxer and Great Showman he is one of my Favorite Boxer !!!

 

Excellent post and I totally agree. One of my favourite fighters of all time. Just wish he had had the hunger and desire to carry on after the Barrera defeat. I went to watch Naz Live a few times and he was an amazing fighrter with awesome power. Anyone that slags him off is a ****

 

Shut up twat

 

Shame it wasnt you he crashed into eh

 

how comes Hammed never won the Ring title??

 

Ah, watching that compilation video brings back so many great memories...

In his prime, Hamed was a force of nature but - more than that - he just lit up the ring. His showboating was legendary but he backed it up with one punch KO power.

Many people's view of him is tainted by that loss - and subsequent retirement. But in that moment where he was great, he was truly great.

Boxing could do with another Hamed to liven things up some...

 

What a bunch of idiots. If it had been today they would've been falling over themselves to give him a belt. Or 3.

 

remember he was naturally a flyweight to but moved up to make more cash

 

Yep and yet he was the heavy favorite to beat Barrera as a stepping stone to Morales.

 

Prince Naz could have gone on to be one of the true greats. In his real early days the guy was simply awesome. You couldn't hit the guy. His reflexes were simply incredible. Up there with RJJ in his hayday. He could throw punches at angles that I have never seen other boxers throw. One of the most unique talents the sport of boxing has ever produced.

Sadly his dedication in the gym was his downfall. Say what you like about Floyd but the guy trains his butt off and puts in the hard work that his natural talent deserves. Naz never did and his performances after beating Steve Robinson became more and more patchy and the more money he made, the less training he would do. He would drive his trainer Brendan Ingle crazy.

When I saw the Kevin Kelley fight I realized American fans would never see the real Naz. I just couldn't believe how a guy that was so hard to hit, could now be hit so easily. By the time he fought Barrera, I was one of the very few at the time that didn't give Naz a chance to win. He had never been in the ring with a guy with the quality of Barrera and he was not the same fighter. I scored the fight a lot bigger for Barrera then the judges did.

People said he should have stayed going but he had one more fight against a nobody and the super elusiveness was gone and so was Naz. It was that elusiveness that would allow him to throw vicious punches at sick angles (youtube Prince Naz KO's to see what I mean).

For me my dream matchup is a hayday Naz against a hayday Floyd. Prince Nazeem in my eyes is one of the greatest wastes of talent I have ever seen in boxing. He could have been a legend. Now he never will. Nothing worse then wasted talent..

 

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probably the best post ive read on here

most people are idots,,, cheers for clearing this up for everyone