As an Irishman (not English) I have to say Naz was a great fighter who is hugely underrated by Americans. Yeah he got beaten by Barrera, but where's the shame in that? Barrera is a legend
+Zim Zimma Yeah he was a great boxer some people doesn´t like or understand his style, i'm mexican but many people in my country doesn´t like that kind of boxing style, you know, but is only people who just like to watch a fight they don´t like boxing, You know what i mean? Peace.
Javier Mondragón Hamed didn't have what you would say a technical style. Most people that didn't like naz didn't like his arrogance, nothing to do with style.
Zim Zimma it was more to do on how he carried himself before the fight, how he was humbled during the fight and finally how he responded to it after he had lost for the first time in his professional life he had to pick him self up and ask for a rematch buy he got sacred in to retirement, my humble opinion and greetings from Mexico my friend !
hamed fought everyone at the time, he just lacked the desire to train, he fell in love with his power & neglected his boxing skills, all i gotta say is, this guy was awesome, regardless of what anyone says, true fighter.
Wish he would have stayed longer in the game he could have fought with morales,marquez,and even paquiao would have loved to see him fight those matches..
@@SuperTruthful Morales style is made for Naz he would stand with his guard up and keep moving forward eating punches from super bantamweights. Naseem Hamed would have KOd him in style
Naseem = one of the best punchers ever hes like 40 on the top 100 punchers ever. I think he should be lower on the list because how he throw knockout power from any angle as soon as he finds an opening. Threw the most wicked uppercuts I've ever seen. He hit harder than most middle weights and all featherweights at only like 115.
I agree with what you say.The thing that bothered me was the way Naz had bullied and humiliated lesser fighters. I found that behaviour unacceptable. Barrerra took him to school and made him look very ordinary. Naz I believe knows more of the same and worse lies ahead if he fights Morales or Barrera. He had undoubted class as a fighter buut has been found wanting as a man. All the true greats deal with defeat except for those very few undefeated fighters. I find it hard to watch Naz now.
Naz took the loss with dignity. It’s probably the most humble post fight speech of all time. He just wanted to scrap rather than points etc. I think he’d of preferred to have gone out on his shield but Barrera just came to win on points.
As a kid of the 90's. I loved Naz he was a part of my childhood. He was ver exciting to watch. But that said it would have been great had he offered a rematch to Barrera. It would have also been nice to see him fight Erik Morales.
Naz fought everyone at featherweight. He dominated the featherweight division in his time, you can't ask him to do more than dominate the guys around him. The Barrera fight came when he was on the slide a bit, he wasn't as hungry anymore. Personally Naz was more talented but his heart hadn't been in boxing for a while leading up to the Barrera bout.
@aknavigates so true brother so true all the haters can always talk it up . but this bloke did which only a few other boxers in history did and no other boxer had his style flash charisma and confidence and going in the ring n knoking his opponents clean out
LOL "Morales will do a job on him. Barreras been knocked out twice, it will be easier than people think, etc". Funny that. Hamed said all this about Barrera than was made to look a fool after Barrera outclassed and outboxed when these two fought. Prince is a clown; never beat anyone noteworthy. I still revel in glee when I watch Barrera wipe the floor with him.
I don't see what Barrera said bad here. Morales imo was always more gifted than Barrera and a better fighter. Hamed said he expected Morales to win but that he was in for a good fight.
He didn’t wipe the floor with him. He outboxed him on the back foot. Naz wasn’t hurt once and even in the last round he was grinning and swinging. Naz wanted to scrap that’s what he was about. The ironic thing is Barrera is known as an aggressive come forward fighter yet when he fought Naz he was in the back foot the entire fight
eh, you could say that about a lot of potentially great fighters; most you don't even hear about because they don't get the correct media/attention. But that's what makes the fighters we deem so great to be... so great lol. Because during times where they're not even at "full potential" they dig in deep and display that mentally and skillfully as a fighter, they show that they are the best. People say so much about Nas and Tyson but every fighter goes through that. It's how u get through it.
what so ever 37 fights 36 wins just 1 loss and 31 KO,s is one of the best record and one loss by points dosent mean he is a bad fighter prince naseem hamed is a true legend.
this egomaniac knew nothing about the kind of guts it took to be involved in three of the greatest fights of all time as soon as he got beaten he lost all taste for the sport and showed the kind of stuff he was made of when he ran a man down and ran away without even calling an ambulance some legend
He certainly did beat some noteworthy opponents, boxers like Kevin Kelly, Wayne McCullough, Tom Johnson, Bungu, Cesar Soto... All world class opponents at the time. He took Barrera too lightly and rightly paid the price by being outboxed for the vast majority of the fight, he had his moments but by and large Barrera dominated him. But to say he beat a load of nobodies is incorrect. The only people who say that are those who are either haters or people who got into the sport after Naz retired
i know a boy called UCHE-CHI, who fights for the repton abc in london, he fights EXACTLY like naz, he EVEN got the power in both hands, lets c if he can 'do a job' in his career.
Bigdatut - No questioning what you said about Barrerra's good conditioning and good execution. I just think Naseem's career could have gone so much further than it did if he wouldn't have let his ego get in the way.
Ouch, i love looking back through these posts and finding ones like yours. You were so sure Paqquiao would lose to Cotto but, oh, so wrong!! Masterpiece of illusion?! hahahahaha
@TheVindicator85 morales and barrera put off fights with naz for years then finally barrera grew the balls to fight naz when he knew naz was out of his prime.
barry mcguigan really does have a higher understanding of boxing and fighters he really is a learned person in his chosen sport. He was proved right in the coments made in this clip as naseem went onto lose.A similer observation was made with the Tyson/Lewis fight at an interview Tyson made post fight.
Wow, I was hoping someone intelligent would finally show up to chat about Naz, and here you are, Harvard educated and with 4 decades of being a Boxing pundit. Thanks Bert,Sugar, you really put the reast of these kids to shame, now I'm going to sit at my computer all night hoping you will reply.
scunert. good comment agree with allmost all you said I never thought he had class as a fighter I thought he was a reasonable fighter who was very careful who he fought and dominated a weak division full of nobodies and good fighters past their best. I doubt he would have many fans if he were not a muslim.
Boxing isn't really about fucking people up - it's very much a technical game, I think Barrera shut Naz out of the fight completely, every round - sweet science. All the greats are like that - Ali, Hopkins - very clever. Also, Barrera was stepping up from Super Bantamweight .
I don't remember naseem really bashing his opponents, speaking ur mind on how thy performed or what he thought was a weakness, or speaking of them at all and ppl say his bad mouthing them. I don't remember naseem doing what Floyd does now, I remember him being more respectful than what a lot of these guys r saying
Smokesar: Charisma doesn't intimade people but it can give u fans, Tyson intimadates people....not by being charismatic but by being intimadating and scary, partly of his power. Because people were afraid of him BECAUSE of his power, not of his boxing skills.... Naz was good, BUT he didn't exactly defend his title against the best in the world, he defended against Kevin Kelley and was outboxed until Kelley got too eager and got knocked out. Barrera saw that fight as a blueprint of too win
Bet, if you think Cotto will ko Pacman, then now is a good time to BET THAT SHIT! Pacuiao is a 2-1 favorite, the over/under is 9 1/2. I think the odds will even up for Cotto as the fight nears.
in support of this position joe c fought his 3 most notable fights against faded roy jones, washed up b-hop, and raw amatuer lacy....to joe c's credit, however, he made more out of being mediocre than most do
@TheCookieMunster94 That's one way of looking at it. But it's not the right way. Barrera was slightly older than Naz and had been in more wars by the time they fought. If anybody should have been past their prime it was Barrera. Add to that the fact that up until they met, Barrera was a weight division lower than Naz. This was actually Barrera's first competitive fight at featherweight and he was jumping in against an undeafeted power punching champion - and he still took him to school.
Barrera's corner threw the towel in in the first fight after he got tagged and was on the ropes taking shots. He was still standing, was not ko'd. The second fight he was out pointed, controversially, with most analysts saying he was denied a clear victory. Hamed's not knowing that, and the fact that Barrera went from being a pressure-fighter to a smoother boxer between those 2 Jones fights shows he didn't do his homework for his own showdown with him, and why he got schooled by a guy who developed and progessed after defeats.
alot of ppl bad mouth naz and alot of the time dont even know what they are saying they just say what they hear naz was a gifted fighter but lost love to early in hes carear at 22 he was a undisputed world champ i guess he peaked before hes prime
@salehs313 i been watching the sport for years. hes an entertainer. he knocked descent fighters out. then he got beat by a descent figther. theres nothing else to it. yes he wore gloves and knocked a bunch of descent fighters out. yes i know this. then was beaten by a descent boxer who was wearing gloves as well lol. he was a hell of a dancer. he should of been in them puff daddy videos back in the day.
I think everyone is overreacting about the Naz. Either they think he woulda koed all of em or they woulda koed him. I didn't think Barrera destroyed Naz, just beat him. Naz was a flawed fighter and a one trick pony. Thing was, that was one helluva pony.He was very good, world class, just not champion class.
NASSIM HAMED IS THE KING OF FIGHTER, 37 fight 36 victory only one defeat. YOU ARE AND STILL THE BEST NASSIM HAMED, ALLAH THE GREAT BLESSES YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY. AND FUCK THE JEALOUS NASSIM WILL DEMOLISH MORALES AND PACQUIAO
Oh how I loved when Marco"done a job" on you.You were a great talent who took your money and ran when you got a whuppin.For that reason you don't deserve your place at the HOF this year.
Prince Naseem vs Erik Morales would have been a great fight.
As an Irishman (not English) I have to say Naz was a great fighter who is hugely underrated by Americans. Yeah he got beaten by Barrera, but where's the shame in that? Barrera is a legend
+Zim Zimma Yeah he was a great boxer some people doesn´t like or understand his style, i'm mexican but many people in my country doesn´t like that kind of boxing style, you know, but is only people who just like to watch a fight they don´t like boxing, You know what i mean? Peace.
Javier Mondragón Hamed didn't have what you would say a technical style. Most people that didn't like naz didn't like his arrogance, nothing to do with style.
Zim Zimma it was more to do on how he carried himself before the fight, how he was humbled during the fight and finally how he responded to it after he had lost for the first time in his professional life he had to pick him self up and ask for a rematch buy he got sacred in to retirement, my humble opinion and greetings from Mexico my friend !
He was VERY overrated......
@@Tragyx nope
hamed fought everyone at the time, he just lacked the desire to train, he fell in love with his power & neglected his boxing skills, all i gotta say is, this guy was awesome, regardless of what anyone says, true fighter.
Wish he would have stayed longer in the game he could have fought with morales,marquez,and even paquiao would have loved to see him fight those matches..
Those guys would have destroyed the naseem
@@SuperTruthful
Morales style is made for Naz he would stand with his guard up and keep moving forward eating punches from super bantamweights. Naseem Hamed would have KOd him in style
@@frogdropkicker805
Not comparison against Morales tho, Naseem is not better than Morales.
Naseem = one of the best punchers ever hes like 40 on the top 100 punchers ever. I think he should be lower on the list because how he throw knockout power from any angle as soon as he finds an opening. Threw the most wicked uppercuts I've ever seen. He hit harder than most middle weights and all featherweights at only like 115.
I miss these shows from the 90's.
Shame Morales and Hamed never fought.
I agree with what you say.The thing that bothered me was the way Naz had bullied and humiliated lesser fighters. I found that behaviour unacceptable. Barrerra took him to school and made him look very ordinary. Naz I believe knows more of the same and worse lies ahead if he fights Morales or Barrera. He had undoubted class as a fighter buut has been found wanting as a man. All the true greats deal with defeat except for those very few undefeated fighters. I find it hard to watch Naz now.
Naz took the loss with dignity. It’s probably the most humble post fight speech of all time. He just wanted to scrap rather than points etc. I think he’d of preferred to have gone out on his shield but Barrera just came to win on points.
Contrary to popular belief. Naz won quite a few rounds against Barrera. He did lose the fight but Barrera did not school him in my opinion completely
your words are wise, spoken like a true scholar mattaratzi
As a kid of the 90's. I loved Naz he was a part of my childhood. He was ver exciting to watch. But that said it would have been great had he offered a rematch to Barrera. It would have also been nice to see him fight Erik Morales.
Never question the heart of a Mexican Warrior
Very interesting answers
So really without knowing what's happening behinds the scenes nobody can predict
I wish naseem had fought morales or even juan manuel marquez but as soon as the barerra fight was over he retired..
Deem baby I love naseem hamed so much deem pro like fk
were can i watch prince naseem training in tenerife for bungu ?
yeah i agree totally...the same with cotto...
Good guy
I wish he had conducted himself like a gentleman such as this interview more often...
Boring
waaaaaaaaaaaaw love love love you dont worry about them you are first hirro
Chukpart, I think you are right. I also think if Hamed would have taken the Barrerra fight more seriously, he would have won it.
Naz fought everyone at featherweight. He dominated the featherweight division in his time, you can't ask him to do more than dominate the guys around him. The Barrera fight came when he was on the slide a bit, he wasn't as hungry anymore. Personally Naz was more talented but his heart hadn't been in boxing for a while leading up to the Barrera bout.
His hand was injured too
BS!
Naz was a great fighter. He ducked Juan Manuel Márquez, his number one contender, for a good two years. DON’T FORGET!
@@narigon3942no he didn’t lol
@@narigon3942Marquez was beat by Freddie Norwood
@@megadave1197 👈🏼 tell me you are a casual without telling me you are a causal.
Look it up, professor. This was in 1997-1998.
@jason60152 What makes you think Pac would have lost to Naz @ 126 ?
i liked 'The Naz' and i thought he was a great entertainer. i just prefer Barrera, Pacman, Morales, and Marquez.
@aknavigates so true brother so true all the haters can always talk it up . but this bloke did which only a few other boxers in history did and no other boxer had his style flash charisma and confidence and going in the ring n knoking his opponents clean out
LOL "Morales will do a job on him. Barreras been knocked out twice, it will be easier than people think, etc".
Funny that. Hamed said all this about Barrera than was made to look a fool after Barrera outclassed and outboxed when these two fought.
Prince is a clown; never beat anyone noteworthy. I still revel in glee when I watch Barrera wipe the floor with him.
Wayne McCullough and keV Kelly
I don't see what Barrera said bad here. Morales imo was always more gifted than Barrera and a better fighter. Hamed said he expected Morales to win but that he was in for a good fight.
lol
Manuel medina who nearly beat daniel zaragoza let's remember naz beat medina
He didn’t wipe the floor with him. He outboxed him on the back foot. Naz wasn’t hurt once and even in the last round he was grinning and swinging. Naz wanted to scrap that’s what he was about. The ironic thing is Barrera is known as an aggressive come forward fighter yet when he fought Naz he was in the back foot the entire fight
Just cause Fighter A beats Fighter B it does NOT mean that A can beat C cause C might be the disruptive style that beats Fighter A.
+Reflection Ofpower Morales in my mind would of schooled Hamed.
Yes!
Couldnt agree with you more boys!! Barrera different class!!
You still the PRINCE Bro !!
eh, you could say that about a lot of potentially great fighters; most you don't even hear about because they don't get the correct media/attention. But that's what makes the fighters we deem so great to be... so great lol.
Because during times where they're not even at "full potential" they dig in deep and display that mentally and skillfully as a fighter, they show that they are the best. People say so much about Nas and Tyson but every fighter goes through that. It's how u get through it.
@jason60152 Ok, I'll play. What is your analysis that lead to your conclusion?
what so ever 37 fights 36 wins just 1 loss and 31 KO,s is one of the best record and one loss by points dosent mean he is a bad fighter prince naseem hamed is a true legend.
prince naseem for life
i agree
its a official hes makin a comeback
3 weeks later and im still trying to figure out that joaquinnaaz said lol
Best fighter hands down.brutal corkscrew
corkscrew?
Bet it up!
MIGUEL ANGEL COTTO +190
MANNY PACQUIAO -250
TOTAL ROUNDS COTTO-o 9 1/2 COTTO
+115
TOTAL ROUNDS PACQUIAO-u 9 1/2 PACQUIAO-145
this egomaniac knew nothing about the kind of guts it took to be involved in three of the greatest fights of all time as soon as he got beaten he lost all taste for the sport and showed the kind of stuff he was made of when he ran a man down and ran away without even calling an ambulance some legend
How many times have you been in the ring Gerry?
He certainly did beat some noteworthy opponents, boxers like Kevin Kelly, Wayne McCullough, Tom Johnson, Bungu, Cesar Soto... All world class opponents at the time.
He took Barrera too lightly and rightly paid the price by being outboxed for the vast majority of the fight, he had his moments but by and large Barrera dominated him.
But to say he beat a load of nobodies is incorrect. The only people who say that are those who are either haters or people who got into the sport after Naz retired
Wayne Kerr lightly my arse, berera another level.
Wayne McCullough fought Barrera and drew against him I believe
@@sugs1191He fought Morales and gave him a good fight, lost clearly but was always in the fight and that was a prime Morales.
AGREE
@drunk2thepowerofsick fair play
@aknavigates hell yeah!
i know a boy called UCHE-CHI, who fights for the repton abc in london, he fights EXACTLY like naz, he EVEN got the power in both hands, lets c if he can 'do a job' in his career.
@aknavigates true dat man, let the record talk! :D
was this before barrera fight
true
he's the best glass chin defending the next best glass chin
Nas had a chin like granite
Bigdatut - No questioning what you said about Barrerra's good conditioning and good execution. I just think Naseem's career could have gone so much further than it did if he wouldn't have let his ego get in the way.
Ouch, i love looking back through these posts and finding ones like yours. You were so sure Paqquiao would lose to Cotto but, oh, so wrong!! Masterpiece of illusion?! hahahahaha
@TheVindicator85 morales and barrera put off fights with naz for years then finally barrera grew the balls to fight naz when he knew naz was out of his prime.
Hahahaha Lol
@WindyCityGym i dont know why people hate naz so much...........his just confidant and good to watch.....entertaining :D
i wonder y he stopped after barrera fight
barry mcguigan really does have a higher understanding of boxing and fighters he really is a learned person in his chosen sport.
He was proved right in the coments made in this clip as naseem went onto lose.A similer observation was made with the Tyson/Lewis fight at an interview Tyson made post fight.
theyll never be an era like hagler,hearns,duran,leonard those were fighters
I lol'd
Wow, I was hoping someone intelligent would finally show up to chat about Naz, and here you are, Harvard educated and with 4 decades of being a Boxing pundit. Thanks Bert,Sugar, you really put the reast of these kids to shame, now I'm going to sit at my computer all night hoping you will reply.
scunert. good comment agree with allmost all you said I never thought he had class as a fighter I thought he was a reasonable fighter who was very careful who he fought and dominated a weak division full of nobodies and good fighters past their best. I doubt he would have many fans if he were not a muslim.
@park3r7 why are u insulting him in every videos? What does naseem did to u ?
I had to laugh when Barry started to speak.
@salehs313 pure comedy
@salehs313 lmao well that certainly explains everything
Barraera beat Nasim's punk ass. Loved when he slammed Nasim's face into the post.
What is wooddddddddddddya?
Yeah that's a good point, but some people agree that Kelley was past his best - like alot of Naz opponents.
naz da don
If Naseem had waited just a few months, then he could have taken on Manny Pacquiao instead of Barrera. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He definitely massacre by manny
@salehs313 of course i liked him as an entertainer. not as a boxer though. why else would i watch his videos. hes hillarious.
Naz let himself down in the end.
Although he was in the top 6 p4p fighters at the time
@daveyscorer1 Sorry, you're right. I was thinking the other way around.
Boxing isn't really about fucking people up - it's very much a technical game, I think Barrera shut Naz out of the fight completely, every round - sweet science. All the greats are like that - Ali, Hopkins - very clever. Also, Barrera was stepping up from Super Bantamweight .
I don't remember naseem really bashing his opponents, speaking ur mind on how thy performed or what he thought was a weakness, or speaking of them at all and ppl say his bad mouthing them. I don't remember naseem doing what Floyd does now, I remember him being more respectful than what a lot of these guys r saying
Smokesar: Charisma doesn't intimade people but it can give u fans, Tyson intimadates people....not by being charismatic but by being intimadating and scary, partly of his power. Because people were afraid of him BECAUSE of his power, not of his boxing skills....
Naz was good, BUT he didn't exactly defend his title against the best in the world, he defended against Kevin Kelley and was outboxed until Kelley got too eager and got knocked out.
Barrera saw that fight as a blueprint of too win
Good thing he picked Barrera, Morales would have demolished him.
Bet, if you think Cotto will ko Pacman, then now is a good time to BET THAT SHIT! Pacuiao is a 2-1 favorite, the over/under is 9 1/2. I think the odds will even up for Cotto as the fight nears.
in support of this position joe c fought his 3 most notable fights against faded roy jones, washed up b-hop, and raw amatuer lacy....to joe c's credit, however, he made more out of being mediocre than most do
@TheCookieMunster94
That's one way of looking at it. But it's not the right way.
Barrera was slightly older than Naz and had been in more wars by the time they fought. If anybody should have been past their prime it was Barrera.
Add to that the fact that up until they met, Barrera was a weight division lower than Naz. This was actually Barrera's first competitive fight at featherweight and he was jumping in against an undeafeted power punching champion - and he still took him to school.
Barrera's corner threw the towel in in the first fight after he got tagged and was on the ropes taking shots. He was still standing, was not ko'd. The second fight he was out pointed, controversially, with most analysts saying he was denied a clear victory. Hamed's not knowing that, and the fact that Barrera went from being a pressure-fighter to a smoother boxer between those 2 Jones fights shows he didn't do his homework for his own showdown with him, and why he got schooled by a guy who developed and progessed after defeats.
Naseem is Legend!!
rock on people from RobotRuss
Lewis is a 1st generation englishmen... I guess if you REALLY want to claim him you can, but in my eyes he's Jamaican.
@moussleouf 7 times world champion in 3 differents categorys. And he handed British boxer Naseem Hamed. That answer your question croatian?
this was a while before barrera beat naz
Bundgo wasn't he in Rainbow ?
alot of ppl bad mouth naz and alot of the time dont even know what they are saying they just say what they hear naz was a gifted fighter but lost love to early in hes carear at 22 he was a undisputed world champ i guess he peaked before hes prime
Barrera did a job on Naseem.
well m8 we shall see, i think your gonna be surprised. your severely underating pacman. i hope you come to realise that
@salehs313 i been watching the sport for years. hes an entertainer. he knocked descent fighters out. then he got beat by a descent figther. theres nothing else to it. yes he wore gloves and knocked a bunch of descent fighters out. yes i know this. then was beaten by a descent boxer who was wearing gloves as well lol. he was a hell of a dancer. he should of been in them puff daddy videos back in the day.
I dont' think He can beat Barrera if there was a rematch. Even his trainer E. Steward admitted that Hamed was a diff fighter after that loss.
I think everyone is overreacting about the Naz. Either they think he woulda koed all of em or they woulda koed him. I didn't think Barrera destroyed Naz, just beat him. Naz was a flawed fighter and a one trick pony. Thing was, that was one helluva pony.He was very good, world class, just not champion class.
Hace mucho que no escucho esa cancion de Enrique Iglesias en el principio del video 😂
Y quién está hablando de canciones, pendejo?
NASSIM HAMED IS THE KING OF FIGHTER, 37 fight 36 victory only one defeat. YOU ARE AND STILL THE BEST NASSIM HAMED, ALLAH THE GREAT BLESSES YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY.
AND FUCK THE JEALOUS
NASSIM WILL DEMOLISH MORALES AND PACQUIAO
biggest ears in boxing
@jason60152 Than who/what?
المتكلم عثمان ملك ملوك 😎
Oh how I loved when Marco"done a job" on you.You were a great talent who took your money and ran when you got a whuppin.For that reason you don't deserve your place at the HOF this year.
well surely it was before getting his ass kicked he was traning for a fight as well he was giving his opinion since his last fight was against marco
i agree but dont worry u still are the prince of light wait a legend =) dont worry u roock man dont feel bad = D
naseem shouldn't thinking about boxing its hard for him if he still dancing and make a show as with barrera whose clean the stage with em.
@jason60152 Erik Estrada, maybe.
@lubui2583 now you know what if ur nabor who lived around u and was ur best friend 4 10 years loses a fight and some1 makes fun of him u will get mad
Barry Mguigan what a muppet putting down Naz. He was no where near his level