What ever happened to Naseem Hamed? I really liked watching that guy box. I thought he had some unique skills inside the ring. The long time off hurt him, but hell, he should have been able to improve and get right back up there. Did officialy retire after the Calvo firght or what?

He was EXPOSED by Barrera and he faded into obscurity like a little ***** never to return.

He hasn't retired officially but is as good as, he's currently walking around at cruiserweight enjoying the odd game of snooker in sheffield. Every few months there is talk of a comeback but it's bull****.
Barrera broke his heart and ruined his fighting spirit, he looked like **** against calvo, he's a multi millionaire and has a very good looking wife and 3 kids so i very much doubt he'd fight again, the hunger has long gone.

Manny Stewart mentioned that Hame is now walking around close to lightheavy!

Naz fell to pieces when he became World Champion, a shadow of his former self from 1997 onwards. The Tom Johnson fight was his last decent win, a complete and utter waste of unbelievable talent (which you American's haven't seen).

When you see just how outrageously good Naz was as an amateur and in his early pro career as a combination puncher who went rounds without being hit, you feel let down. His ego took over, and he became a one-punch-hoping freakshow.

When Naz started yabbering about how God is on his side and how he doesn't need to spar or train properly anymore, around 1997, I knew he'd start getting caught more. All he wanted to do was run the road and hit the mitts, he didn't spar at all from late 1996 until Steward starting working with him in late 1999 because he felt that God was on his side and he didn't need it because of this. The guy just lost the plot (3 years without sparring ****s you up!).

Steward started working with him but Naz wouldn't spar as often as Steward wanted him to do, in the end Steward admitted that he had no control over Naz.

Naz fell to pieces when he became World Champion, a shadow of his former self from 1997 onwards. The Tom Johnson fight was his last decent win, a complete and utter waste of unbelievable talent (which you American's haven't seen).

When you see just how outrageously good Naz was as an amateur and in his early pro career as a combination puncher who went rounds without being hit, you feel let down. His ego took over, and he became a one-punch-hoping freakshow.

When Naz started yabbering about how God is on his side and how he doesn't need to spar or train properly anymore, around 1997, I knew he'd start getting caught more. All he wanted to do was run the road and hit the mitts, he didn't spar at all from late 1996 until Steward starting working with him in late 1999 because he felt that God was on his side and he didn't need it because of this. The guy just lost the plot (3 years without sparring ****s you up!).

Steward started working with him but Naz wouldn't spar as often as Steward wanted him to do, in the end Steward admitted that he had no control over Naz.
Add this a simple fact .... Naz preferred to "bully" guys and, most of all, like a true bully, didn't like to gt hit. Haned like it to be a one-way-street, his street, without any tarffic coming in the other direction. Once his training/sparring ended, he became very hittable, and the bully lost the mental game.

Barrera literally "showed" Hamed what a committed boxer could accomplish against the bully and hamed knew he would never have the same level of committment.

I heard emanuel say Hamed doesn't like to sparr...

Imagine if he trained like he was supposed to, he could've been ****in great as hell...

who cares..he was vastly overrated and got his ass handed to him when he finally fought someone with a credible track record. He was..a bit entertaining to watch..but..to me, very annoying.

He fell off into Bolivian.

Yeah, Hamed was way overrated and got his ass beat into retirement by Barrera...Hamed had the tools, just not the discipline.

What ever happened to Naseem Hamed? I really liked watching that guy box. I thought he had some unique skills inside the ring. The long time off hurt him, but hell, he should have been able to improve and get right back up there. Did officialy retire after the Calvo firght or what?
he was kidnapped by aliens, sent to pluto

He was EXPOSED by Barrera and he faded into obscurity like a little ***** never to return.


exactly. you beat me to the punch. what happened to naseem happened to trinidad on his comeback trail. this shows what happens when a puncher fights a top class boxer.

He hasn't retired officially but is as good as, he's currently walking around at cruiserweight enjoying the odd game of snooker in sheffield. Every few months there is talk of a comeback but it's bull****.
Barrera broke his heart and ruined his fighting spirit, he looked like **** against calvo, he's a multi millionaire and has a very good looking wife and 3 kids so i very much doubt he'd fight again, the hunger has long gone.
a former featherweight as a cruiserweight??
wtf he over...

Once the unbeaten record was gone, so was his will to go on.

He was EXPOSED by Barrera and he faded into obscurity like a little ***** never to return.

I couldn't have said it better. :rofl:

What ever happened to Naseem Hamed? I really liked watching that guy box. I thought he had some unique skills inside the ring. The long time off hurt him, but hell, he should have been able to improve and get right back up there. Did officialy retire after the Calvo firght or what?


What you need to do is to speak with DLT, he is the boxingscene expert on NAZ.

My humble opinion is simple Naz was a ***** who never had one defining win in his career. Sure Paul Ingle was tough but he was never close to an A fighter, Tom Johnson was old as was Soto and Kelley-his laundry list of b and c level fighters was overlooked by far too many (DLT).

He fought 1 great fighter and lost, instead of trying again he let his body of work speak for itself...someone should have told him that his body of work was ****, who knows if that would have happened maybe he would have rebounded or at the very least tried again.