Prince Naseem Hamed - Were you a fan?

True..but it wasn't as bad as the man crush Merchant always had for Wladimir Klitschko "He's the most beautiful heavyweight since Ali" etc...

 

A supposed P4P fighter who was getting dropped by Augie Sanchez and an old Kevin Kelley back then. There were big names at 122, 126, and 130 back then and Hamed always TALKED about fighting them all and beating them all. he fought ONE of the people he talked about. MAB. Enough said.

 

The entire Naz/Kelly fight including the ring walks and interviews has as much re-watch value as any fight in history.

Prince was the man.

 

He was an entertaining fighter who could hype up a fight and had an exciting style. Against older champions and ex champs like Tom Johnson, Medina, Kelley, and Wilfredo Vasquez he gave you the impression that he could beat top competetion as well.

Sorry, this style was NEVER going to work against the younger champions. Barrera, Morales, Marquez, etc. Mayweather would have embarrassed him worse than MAB did.

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Is that from the "little prince, big fight" docu? One of the best, funniest, sports documentaries

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=05BB544867136004&search_query=little+prince+big

 

Yes. He sits there sneering. He is fucking lucky 9-11 was yet to happen...if it had, he would never have been able to pull half the shit he did. You see how Khan goes around with his sequined Union Jack knickers, so as not to upset the mainstream.

 

that sequence when he flies over the hairdresser to give him his caesar / pudding bowl cut was suureal..plus riath hamed was comedy gold, i'd imagine he's back working in carphone warehouse or sunglass hut at meadowhall as we speak

 

He is probably putting his skills to use as a calorie-counter for Hamed. I heard Naseem is wearing velcro shoes these days. It ain't easy being 16stone and only 5'3"....I should know, I am 16stone and 5'9". That said, I am the business on the heavybag:fightme:. For around a minute::

 

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It's not true that he wasn't allowed to flip over the top rope. He got nailed with a cup of beer and his gloves were too wet for him to get the grip he needed.

I was a fan of his punching power, but his fight with Augie "Kid Vegas" Sanchez was downright disgusting. He went down and then immediately stood up and hit Sanchez when he was supposed to go to the ref and get his gloves wiped off.

He loved to break rules and do cheap shit like leaning over guys and taunting them when they were trying to recover from knockdowns.

And then there was him almost killing that guy in that car crash.

Great puncher, great showman, not so great at other things.

 

Anyone remember this?

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Kind of prophetic what Eubank said: "I hope he gets what's coming to him, and I don't think it'll be good".

Then Hamed got arrested for nearly killing that guy.

 

Brendan Ingle was a decent man, an honest guy with very little in the line of a formal education who made what little he had through hard work and graft. He was not a smart man, by any stretch and backed Hamed up all the time, often to the point of looking really thick, which he probably was. That press conference for Eubank-Thompson and Naz-Vasquez is a good example.

When push came to shove Hamed discarded him like a wet sock and fucked off first to Suarez and then to Steward. He only went with Suarez in the first place as Suarez was coaching that other bum, the face-first Sheika, a fellow "Musslimm" of Hameds. Like Sheika gave a fuck.


The fact that Ingle was left with very little in the line of a nest egg does not surprise me. Even Frank Bruno took care of the ill-fated George Francis with some cash when they split up, but Hamed gave Ingle fuck all except grief and wouldn't even listen to him during the McCullough fight....

He near killed that guy in a car smash when Hamed was showing off his McClaren Mercedes....showed no remorse.....didn't care.

Hamed reminds me a bit of the old saying that Holmes had about Spinks. While Hamed has retained his cash, his career has developed holes with the passing of time {and rightly so} and he has lost his MBE and just about any standing he had with John Q Public.

 

TASTELESS Moment by Lamps...Referencing ANY Man's GOD as a Way of BELITTLING him is Fucked Up...


REED:shit:

 

agREED...From Start to Finish, it's Probably THE MOST Rewatchable HBO Telecast EVER...


REED:hammert:

 

Get the fuck out of here with that shit......bringing religion into it in the first place was fucked up. Hamed got what he had coming to him, and what Lampley offered Hamed was a fraction as offensive as what Hamed offered the paying public.

 

What's OFFENSIVE about a Professed Muslim Doing a Muslim Prayer/Chant Prior to his Fight???...The Fact that U're Bothered By it Speaks to YOUR Shortcomings Moreso than Hamed's....


REED:hammert:

 

His private convictions are his own affair. Proselytizing is another matter altogether. Hamed can say all the prayers he wants. Getting the MC to make announcements with an air of superiority goes beyond the acceptable. Barrera stomached it and then fucked the guy up, proving, perhaps, that if there is a God, he don't like Hamed.::

 

The thing is...

I don't like people bring religion into boxing..because at the end of the day a boxing match is about beating someone up for money. I didn't like it when Holyfield did it and I didn't like it when Hamed did it.

Boxing and God don't mix.

nothing wrong in saying a private prayer regarding the safety of both fighters or that you perform your best or what not...but grabbing the Mic and doing a big chant with a shit eating grin on the face or Evander saying he'll KO Lennox in 3 rounds for (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) is rather disgusting IMO.

I don't know what God is thinking..admitedly, but somehow I doubt he's backing someone in the ring to beat up another man for money...

 

Holyfield was less offensive about it, but with Holyfield you sort of knew what you were getting. Holyfield also never approached the matter in a quasi-violent fashion. And he certainly never petitioned Buffer to get in on the act. Buffer, a HBO vassal {less so now} went along with it. Hamed became very brash and very politicized in a very short space of time....his words and his sayings were redolent of the very worst examples of religious chauvinism.

 

Whilst I agree that Hamed went over the top with the religious stuff before the Barrera fight in the introductions and everything, Lampley was bang out of order saying what he did. The guy got his ass kicked anyway, say what you want about the man he's fair game, but his religion isn't. I'm not a religious bloke but that shit was offensive even to me.

 

Agreed, outside Barrera-Morales 1, for modern fights this was fantastic. Electric atmosphere, great fight, pre-fight needle, it had it all. The pre-fight press conferences were hilarious, I remember one of the exchanges having me in stitches:

Naz: "After the fight, I'll give you a job putting up my posters all over New York! You won't be out of work!"

Kelly: "Yea well..."

Naz: "Make sure I'm looking good!"

Kelly: "Well you know..."

Naz: "And make sure they're straight, I don't wanna see no creases in 'em!!"

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Hamed was THE Reason that Fight was on PPV that Night...He was THE Draw...Very Few Fighters Wore Religion on their Sleeves to the Degree that Hamed Did & the BOTTOM LINE is, if HBO had as Big a Problem w/it as YOU Did, they'd have Said Something...

LOSING to Barrera Isn't a Statement AGAINST Hamed's Religion Anymore than Winning was Positive Statement FOR "Evan Fields' " Religion in the Tyson Fights...



REED:shit:

 

I remember that, and PC or not, it was pretty dramatic on Lampley's part. When they replayed the fight, that line was edited out of the broadcast. I asked Lampley about it on an online chat (Max Boxing maybe?) and he said he did catch some heat from that with the powers that be.

TFK

 

Hamed opened the door.

I wasn't 'offended' by it in the least. What i am bothered by is the notion that somebody's beliefs cannot be questioned.

If your beliefs are really that STRONG you shouldn't need to hide behind an invisible wall.

I actually agree with slystaff on this issue.

His own post of whether or not 'God' cares about the outcome of a boxing match is already here to read.

If a fighter had 'Darwin' printed on the back of his trunks and took the mic to tell people there is no god etc...

I would defend his opportunity/free speech to do so, however i equally agree with anybody to take "offense".

You can't have it both ways, sorry.

 

Bingo

 

I couldn't stand Hamed and loved watching Barrera beat him and shove his head in the ringpost.

I'll admit though that it would be nice to have more fighters that play the heel as well as he does. Fighters you love to hate. For me, the equivalent of the Yankees in MLB, the Patriots in the NFL, and Duke in the NCAA Tournament.