Comments Thread For: When Naseem Hamed and Kevin Kelley threw down in New York

[BoxingUpdates]

Steve Bunce?s Around the World in 80 Fights: A Lifetime?s Journey to the Heart of Boxing includes, among 79 others, his retelling of the memorable and dramatic fight between Naseem Hamed and Kevin Kelley in 1997.
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[Nash out]

Prince brought some real excitement to the sport. He was ultimately overrated at one point in time, and he retired as he knew he would have racked up many more losses fighting the actual best guys, but give him his props be brought the show with him, unlike many dull, better fighters, who never get close wo what he was (on the whole) at his peak. Nash out - His Majesty

[vital1983]

Loved watching Nas back in the day!

[The_ultimate]

That fight was electric! Kellys no frills ring walk coming in to New York by Rakim had me so hyped

[rudy]

What a night I remember Junior Jones getting knocked out, he was supposed to be next for Hamed.

[HisExcellency]

What an entrance...

I've no doubt Naz would've beaten Barrera had he trained properly. Unfortunately he didn't but his natural talent was so OFF the charts that he would've been extremely difficult to beat had he taken his craft seriously like Mayweather.

[ShoulderRoll]

Around The World In 80 Fights is a great idea for a book.

Good job Steve Bunce.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

the inoue-cardenas fight made me remember this fight

[real raw]

What an entrance...

I've no doubt Naz would've beaten Barrera had he trained properly. Unfortunately he didn't but his natural talent was so OFF the charts that he would've been extremely difficult to beat had he taken his craft seriously like Mayweather.

Naz wasn't going to beat Barrera..... Ever

[ELPacman]

Barrera claims one of the hardest punches he ever felt was a punch that slipped off his shoulder from Hamed and hit him. It wasn't a direct clean punch and Barrera said it was one of the hardest punches he felt.