I miss Naz, lol..

[Jim_Davis]

[/B]

No need to apologize mate, as let's face it, the Hamed - Calvo fight hardly warrants a mention!
Also, i agree with your comments. I do think that Hamed maybe made a mistake parting company with Ingle, and yes, he was a typical Ingle fighter, but relationships break down, it's a fact of life, and allegedly Hamed and Ingle's partnership began showing cracks when Ingle realeased a book about Hamed (called 'The Paddy and the Prince') which Hamed claimed had lots of untruths in. However, i believe that the parting of ways had a more to do with money than anything else.

I got that book last christmas. The book seems rather biased to Brendan Ingle's version of what happened. Was a bit disappointed that it only tells up to the Kelly fight though.

[Franko]

De La Hoya looks slightly roided in that picture (your avatar).

Both fighters where in pretty good shape (on my avatar.) I don't think De La Hoya would fool around with steroids.

[Franko]

I got that book last christmas. The book seems rather biased to Brendan Ingle's version of what happened. Was a bit disappointed that it only tells up to the Kelly fight though.

As far as i recall Hamed parted company with Brendan Ingle after the Kelley fight. Maybe some day Ingle will cash in on another book giving further insight into his split with Hamed etc.

[eazy_mas]

Both fighters where in pretty good shape (on my avatar.) I don't think De La Hoya would fool around with steroids.

i think he could but as they say innocenet til proven guiltiy but i got my doubt on DHL.

anyway let keep on the topics

[Fighting Cougar]

If you watched it on youtube then thats one of the vids I posted. He was talking bout summer 2006 before he went jail

Damn I guess all we are gonna have now is memories, one thing I liked about hamed people were always like I dont like that ****ing **** talker and when his fights came out they were like oh **** Is anyone gonna see the fight I have to see it I have to see what hamed does next even though they didnt know who his opponent was, lol I remember just what some people would say and I was just in middle school.

[Jim_Davis]

Yeah everybody in Britain used to watch the Hamed fights even if they didn't like him just to watch him get knocked out lol.

[hitmenow]

Man this guy is a straight up entertainer. Something Barerra, Morales, Pacquiao or Marquez could never do.

This is my favorite interview ever. Naz was the ****!

[.Mik.]

Hamed still had a pretty impressive record. We always knew that once he took a step-up in class his style would be shown up, but he certainly did well as a professional. Had he taken on board the advice about taking training more seriously and working on his defense and coming up with a plan-b, but most importantly if he'd kept his head in the game, he could have been the best British boxer for a long time and also could just have easily beaten MAB and his ilk as lost to them.

His potential really was limitless.

He really wasnt a particularly good talker for all of his waxing though. Far too repetetive, stuttering and irrelevant.

[The Wire]

He was incredibally talented, it's a shame he wouldnt work at it. I remember a trainer saying that you sometimes get someone with all the talent in the world but if he won't work at it then he'll get exposed, whereas sometimes you get someone with little natural talent who works extremely hard and gets further than he really should on hard work alone. The real gem is finding someone with natural talent who will work as hard as possible - shame Nas wasnt that!

[Franko]

In the clips I have seen of Naz "at his best" he looked exactly like he did against Barerra. An awkward, powerful, wild swinging fighter with no balance. Barerra boxed his ass off, and made him look foolish. He would have done it any other time imo.

The Naseem Hamed that beat Steve Robinson was theroetically capable of giving any fighter in featherweight history trouble IMO. Therefore, in theory, how would that Naseem Hamed have done against the Barrera who was defeated twice against Junior Jones?
Quite possibly Barrera may have beaten Hamed at any time in their careers, but both fighters had matured in very different ways by the time that they did meet.