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Prince Naseem Hamed is probably the last boxer to TOTALLY transcend the sport of boxing since Mike Tyson!
Unlike Floyd Mayweather who has relied on factors such as? Being the highest paid athlete in the world, to attract shallow attention from the mainstream sheeple! Mike Tyson & Prince Naseem Hamed attracted attention from the public due to their performances inside of the ring! As a raw talented he is in the same area of the stratosphere as Roy Jones Junior! These where guys from a technical perspective, who created new skills inside of the boxing ring (Moves that we had never witnessed before!)…….Roy Jones was once described as Michael Jordan with boxing gloves on! Prince Naseem Hamed had that same kind of ability; forget your text book and fundamentals skills! Prince Naseem Hamed was a fighter who at times deified the Laws of Newtonian Physics itself…..
Since his retirement we have not seen in boxing, a personality or talent like him in the lower divisions! I can remember being in primary school as a kid, and there would be many kids who? Would mimic his fighting style in the playground! Or when we where just being feral cats and roaming about on the streets, we would sometimes challenge ourselves to see how many railings we could flip over AKA NASEEM!
When Prince Naseem Hamed ventured to the United States of America, no British citizen since THE BEATLES made such a cultural impact! The man was quite simply a cultural phenomenon!
Unlike Floyd Mayweather who has relied on factors such as? Being the highest paid athlete in the world, to attract shallow attention from the mainstream sheeple! Mike Tyson & Prince Naseem Hamed attracted attention from the public due to their performances inside of the ring! As a raw talented he is in the same area of the stratosphere as Roy Jones Junior! These where guys from a technical perspective, who created new skills inside of the boxing ring (Moves that we had never witnessed before!)…….Roy Jones was once described as Michael Jordan with boxing gloves on! Prince Naseem Hamed had that same kind of ability; forget your text book and fundamentals skills! Prince Naseem Hamed was a fighter who at times deified the Laws of Newtonian Physics itself…..
Since his retirement we have not seen in boxing, a personality or talent like him in the lower divisions! I can remember being in primary school as a kid, and there would be many kids who? Would mimic his fighting style in the playground! Or when we where just being feral cats and roaming about on the streets, we would sometimes challenge ourselves to see how many railings we could flip over AKA NASEEM!
When Prince Naseem Hamed ventured to the United States of America, no British citizen since THE BEATLES made such a cultural impact! The man was quite simply a cultural phenomenon!
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