Which of these statements best describes Prince Naseem Hamed?

very good fighter not ATG

 

Id say naz is ATG on ability but not on resume or accomplishment.

 

Pose this question on the gf and the utter bollocks that will be spouted!!atsch

 

Surprisingly on H2H Naz does extremely well on the GF. I think the only reason why he does so well in their minds is due to his power and chin, two attributes which apparently are the be all and end all in deciding the winner of a fight.:roll:

 

This pretty well sums it up :good

 

He was a wanker of the highest order and I refused to watch any of his fights post Kelly.

10 minutes walk in showed what a ***** he was.

 

Great featherweight champion but he really should have gone on to fight Morales, Pacman and rematched Barrera. He beat the best at featherweight until ATG Barrera caught up with him. He achieved a lot but a lot will feel he could have achieved more.

 

The 1995 version of Naz was awesome. That version of Naz was capable of competing with, if not beating, any featherweight in history.

I too feel he failed to realize his full potential, and somewhat "underachieved". That is a testament to his talent when you can say that about a man who effectively unifed the featherweight titles (it was only politics that prevented it being official), dominated the divison for 5 or so years and fought at least 9 past, present or future world champions (off the top of my head).

Unfortunately with the fame and fortune came a loss of hunger, desire and dedication. That I think was ultimately Hamed's downfall. His ego - inflated by the growing numbers of hangers on - began to cloud his work ethics, he began to believe he was invincible and practically all he had to do was show up to win. He didn't train as hard as he used to and began to surround himself with yes men and arse kissers who just told him how great he was, how nice his hair looked, how great a dancer he was, what nice cars he had, etc, etc.

If Naz had the discipline of say a Bernard Hopkins or even Floyd Mayweather, it's frightening to think just what he could have achieved.

 

He made himself into a circus instead of reaching full potential. Everyone deserves the right to practise their own religion but at the end he was acting more like a muslim preacher than a world champion boxer (contraversial I know)

He was an icon and will always be remembered as an all time British great but he was shown up by Barrera and never recovered or tried to. Great boxer but not a hall of famer IMO

 

Up until leaving the Ingles I thought Naz would go on to become one of Britains greatest ever fighters. After achieving so much at a relatively young age , for someone with so much natural talent to let his career just fizzle out was a crying shame.