2007-03-25 08:43:50 · 16 answers · asked by Notre1Dame 2 in Sports ➔ Boxing
I enjoyed watching the Prince due to his unorthodox style, but he really wasn't that good. The level of competition he fought was not very high. Barrera exposed him for what he was--a creation of HBO who promoted him as something greater than he was. They did the same thing with Boom-Boom Mancini years earlier.
2007-03-25 12:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by michael w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hamed only looked good against average fighters. As soon as he stepped in the ring with a real world class opponent he was exposed. He had one more fight since his defeat against Barrera and it was a very poor performance which he won a dull points win. He always said he was going to be a legend and one of the biggest stars in boxing. Legends come back and prove themselves so in my book Naz is not even close to being a legend, he is just another fighter who was not good enough for the elite and could not take defeat.
2007-03-25 23:56:09 · answer #2 · answered by evs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had one other fight after his loss to Barrera he won the fringe IBO title against an italian fighter whos names escapes me. Although he won his performace wasent good and he got booed by a large percentage of the crowd, he hasent fought since then and has put on a shed load of weight and is getting on a bit as well. In interviews he talks about a comback but his brother and family are supposed to be against it, and after his time in prison i cant see him now getting back into the shape needed for him to fight again.
2007-03-25 11:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by baz75 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine brough Naz's brother to my house to borrow some tapes of some of Naz's early fights to sell the Soto fight to Joe Louis years ago. Blogbaba actually was in Vegas for the Barrera/Hamed fight as well. Last I heard, Naz took a beating in England from a relatively unknown club fighter then just quit boxing a few years ago.
2007-03-25 09:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah he thought he was so good didn't he. The first quality fighter he fought gave him a boxing lesson so he spat his dummy out and didn't want to fight again.
The great sportsmen always go back to the drawing board after a defeat and give 100% to make sure they improve and win next time.
Naz just stayed at home, ate a lot and went out and crippled another driver.
2007-03-27 00:36:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
naz made a big mistake in his boxing career, he brought religion into the ring just before 9/11 and the world turned its back on him, its a shame as he still had plenty more to give to the sport even after barrera humiliated him but he sat back on his millions and enjoyed his life.
2007-03-27 06:18:59 · answer #6 · answered by chopps . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed was jailed for dangerous driving after a crash which left another driver severely injured.
Hamed, 32, from Dore in Sheffield, was sentenced to 15 months after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing. He was also given a four-year driving ban.
His £325,000 McLaren-Mercedes crashed at 90mph in Sheffield on 2 May 2005.
The judge criticised the DVLA for refusing to reveal that Hamed had been banned before for driving at 110mph.
The Honorary Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Alan Goldsack, told Hamed: "I find it astonishing that the DVLA has not been prepared to co-operate with the prosecution to give them details of your earlier offences - apparently on human rights grounds."
Anxious to impress
The DVLA's decision led to Hamed being sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday without the judge being told he had previously banned for a year for driving a Porsche at 110mph on the M1 in Derbyshire.
He also had three other previous convictions for speeding offences, details of which the prosecution had to find from court records.
After last May's head-on crash, the driver of the other car, 38-year-old Anthony Burgin, spent weeks in hospital with fractures to "every major bone in his body". His wife Clare was also injured.
The court heard how Hamed had been anxious to impress businessman Asif Ayub, 46, who was a passenger in the McLaren-Mercedes at the time of the crash.
Hamed was showing what his car could do when he crossed a solid white line at a speed of at least 90mph and crashed head-on into a Volkswagen Golf that emerged from a dip in the road.
The court heard Hamed's car then hit a second vehicle, a Ford Mondeo he had been trying to overtake.
'Too serious'
The driver of the Mondeo, Michael Wood, described Hamed's overtaking manoeuvre in court as "stupid, suicide, ridiculous".
Jailing Hamed on Friday, Judge Alan Goldsack said the only possible sentence was custody.
"It is far too serious for anything else", he said. "You could easily have killed Mr Burgin."
Outside court, the Burgins' solicitor, Jane Wright, said the couple were "extremely relieved" by the sentence.
She said: "People must never underestimate the amount of damage done to people's lives through driving dangerously on the roads."
Hamed's solicitor, Steve Smith, said he was "very disappointed" with the result and said he did not think Hamed's celebrity status had been an advantage.
2007-03-26 11:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was involved in a road accident, got stuck inside put aload of weight on and looks a right lardie now. I doubt he could punch his way out of a paper bag now.
2007-03-25 08:58:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he got beated by barrera and he has said that to come back but he did not yet so i think that he wil come back also.
2007-03-25 09:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by Eric H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He got banged up for some serious motoring offences.
2007-03-25 08:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋