Naseem Hamed Boxing News

By William Mackay: In the latest boxing news, Naseem Hamed (36-1, 31 KO’s) has finally admitted why he stepped away from boxing seven years ago, in 2002, while in the prime of his career and says that it’s because of his bad hands. In an interview with the BBC, Hamed said that his hands would [...]

By William Mackay: After an impressive 3rd round TKO defeat of Michal Lomax last Saturday night, British welterweight champion Kell Brook (20-0, 13 KO’s) is now aiming for former BBBofC welterweight champion Michael Jennings (35-2, 17 KO’s) next. A victory over the 31-year-old Jennings would be a good victory for Brook to add to his [...]

By Giancarlo Malinconico: The media tends to praise “punchers” because they are in exciting fights and attract mainstream attention to the sport of boxing such as Mike Tyson did in his day. But many of these punchers are just the proverbial “flash in the pans,” or their star burns out very quickly. Moreover, most of [...]

By Steven Pink: It is the uniquely paradoxical nature of boxing that very often the sport’s most skilled practitioners draw the ire and criticism of fans as readily as garnering admiration. Boxing’s iconoclasts from Muhammad Ali to Floyd Mayweather are derided for their idiosyncratic approach to the sport as often as they draw plaudits for [...]

By Matthew Thomas Potter: For the first time in a decade long career, Naseem Hamed left the ring to a mixture of muted boos and polite applause. A short time later, one of Britain’s greatest ever boxers, at the age of 28, would announce his retirement. Hamed, looking out of shape after a [...]

By Matthew Thomas Potter: Writing in his online blog for The Ring Magazine website, columnist Michael Rosenthal gave his opinions on the ten best British fighters of all time. At number four on the list was Joe Calzaghe (46-0, KO 32). Naseem Hamed (36-1, KO 31) was only granted an honourable mention, essentially a footnote; [...]

By Matthew Thomas Potter: It has now been over seven years since ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed’s (37-0-1) supposedly career defining loss to Marco Antonio Barrera. Detractors of the Prince often use this loss to highlight the inadequacies of Hamed’s style, and his lack of the skills that were needed to compete at the highest level, against [...]