Why did Naseem Hamed retire at 28?

[Goodfa]

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.

Wrong..........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. Johnson was American.

[ModernTalking]

Hamed is the greatest fighter that i've seen.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

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.

Hamed won all 4 belts in the featherweight division and lost to an all time great fighter.

When did Junior Witter do this? Ridiculous statement.

[Boxing Scene]

Hamed is the greatest fighter that i've seen.

What's that make Barerra then?

[F l i c k e r]

He said in an interview that it was because he just had a kid and wanted to do that role. He also then said that he never said he was retired.

[Goodfa]

What's that make Barerra then?

Hamed had lost interest in the game by the time he fought Barerra. He was a multi millionaire and wasn't training. But in his prime he was the best out there.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

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.

Naz knocked the *** out of every Yank he faced....

[-Lowkey-]

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.

what Witter fight are you referring to the fight against Zab? Anyway your post makes little sense

[Goodfa]

Tom Johnson was the IBF belt holder, and ranked as the Number 1 Featherweight in the world. He was the top American Featherweight when Hamed fought him. This is what happened.

[stefjonno1]

Lol Tom johnson was 33/34 at the time he fought Naz, and obviously past his best. Kevin kelley was also way past his best.


Obviously in Naz's case i meant top Mexicans as they were the main men in and around his weight division.