LOL @ these fools. There is no shame in losing to Marco. No talent? C'mon folks. You can't be talentless and fight the way he did for so long and last as long as he did. Say what you want about him but he was entertaining as hell. It was fun while it lasted. Boxing needs another Prince Naseem.
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Why did Naseem Hamed retire at 28?
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Originally posted by Forza View Postexcuses excuses. he fought bums till he got destroyed by a real fighter then he quit and got fat.
Steve Robinson was the WBO belt holder, and a ranked Top 10 Featherweight. Hamed stopped him in 8.
Tom Johnson was the IBF belt holder, and ranked as the Number 1 Featherweight in the world at the time. Hamed stopped him in 8.
Kevin Kelley was a two-time champ and ranked inside the Top 5. Hamed stopped him inside 4 rounds.
Manuel Medina was a five-time world titlist and a Top 10 ranked Featherweight. Hamed finished him in the 11th.
Wilfredo Vasquez was a three-weight world champion, the WBA belt holder at the time, and was ranked inside the Top 10. Hamed stopped him in 7.
Wayne McCullough had gone the distance with a prime Eric Morales and went on to capture a world title, Hamed dominated him from start to finish.
Cesar Soto was the WBC champ, and ranked inside the Top 5. Hamed breezed to the decision.
A prime Paul Ingle was another world champ with a Top 3 ranking. Hamed won via TKO in the 11th.
Vuyani Bungu was a long reigning IBF belt holder, in his prime, and ranked Number 4 in the division. Hamed stopped him inside 4 rounds.
Secondly, Hamed didn't "duck" anyone. Hamed's peak years were 95/96/97. Barrera and Morales were not in his weight class, they didn't move up to FW until 2001/2002 respectively.
The biggest joke of all is the one that suggests Hamed ducked Marquez. With all due respect to DINAMITA, the guy was a nobody when Hamed was the FW king and ranked amongst the P4P Elite in the sport.
JMM was never ranked higher than 6th at FW by The Ring during Hamed's reign. In fact, Marquez didn't hold a world title until 2 years after Hamed had retired!
In 1999, when Hamed was busy smashing the **** out of Vuyani Bungu, a man who'd made 14 succesful defences of his title, JMM was soundly defeated by Freddie Norwood. After this defeat, why would Hamed by interested in a guy with no title and seemingly no hope of defeating an elite fighter like the Prince?
Well, in fact, Hamed WAS interested. In 2000, JMM, on the back of the defeat to Norwood, and seemingly having a crisis of confidence, was offered a fight with Hamed, and DECLINED.
To summarize,
Hamed beat a total of 9 past, present or future World Champions - all but one of whom (McCullough) were ranked comfortably inside the Top 10 at FW at the time.
The Prince captured 3 World titles, and made 15 succesful defences of his WBO belt.
He beat every champion in the division at the time, thus unifying the division and becoming the linear, legitimate, Featherweight Champion of the World.
Now, it's true Hamed never beat another elite. He was soundly defeated by Barrera. He retired at 27. He wasn't as good at Manny etc. etc. etc. These issues don't change the fact that Naseem Hamed was an excellent and unqiue fighter and showman, who had a fantastic career, and did absolute wonders for the sport of boxing.
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Originally posted by Forza View Postexcuses excuses. he fought bums till he got destroyed by a real fighter then he quit and got fat.
Pretty much true.
Lol at people thinking naz was'nt interested in the Barrera fight! That is complete drivel, in the UK we were talking about this fight for about 8 years before it happend. Everyone knew it was the fight. It was the fight Naz had been waiting on for years, and he got a whipping from the better fighter, plain and simple. What he should have done was follow other legends like Tommy hearns Ray leonard so on and so on and came back to win other titles! there was plenty challenges ahead, but he opted out. In other words Barrera retired him.
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Originally posted by PED User View PostHe said recently that he had hand injuries.
I think he simply just lost a lot of his desire to fight. He made plenty of money and I hadn't heard any stories about him spending too much of it, so there was apparently no financial necessities for him to continue fighting.
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Just because you lose one fight dont mean your DONE! Thats the one thing i dont like about boxing .... you dont see that kinda talk in MMA
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like benn and eubanks, on the small screen in uk he built a following with his clowning around.
and he had a fabulous ride.
but on the world scene he stepped in over his head.and the way things went down when he did fight someone with a pulse...well you know what happened.
very similar to what happened to junior witter.
i racall feeling like embarrased for witter like i did for hamed against barrera.
when your owned that bad. no where to go. and it would be too embarrasing going back down and fighting the same euroclowns over.
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Originally posted by omarinbox View PostSo why are we still talking about him?
The man put on an excellent show. He made us laugh and he didn't mind if we laughed at him until he lost his zero to Barrera.
Then he lost it. Its a shame there aren't more showmen out there today.
Barrera and Morales did great things for the sport with their exciting fights but neither had the charisma or the ability to speak English that could create the kind of excitement out of the ring that Hamed brought.
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A lot of fighters come through the ranks in the UK, then beat up a lot of europians, then the next step is to fight quite a few americans who are past their best, then when they step up and fight a top american or mexican in Barreras case they fall short. To me thats what happend to Naz.
Naz was good for boxing though, he was a lot of fun.
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