For those who don't know, Eubank and Naz had a fight at an airport in October 1997. Eubank had just come out of retirement and fought as a late replacement on a Hamed undercard against Joe Calzaghe for the vacant WBO super-middleweight title, a shadow of his former self he lost to Calzaghe. Naz was taunting Eubank by waving his WBO featherweight belt in front of Eubank's face who was sitting down on a bench at the airport trying to ignore Naz. "Look Chris, I'm champion and I'm the centre of attention now" Naz laughed. Eubank replied by shouting "Shut up Hamed, I'll never forget when you made your debut on my undercard when I was champion, I had all the attention and you were a silly little boy Naseem, you tried copying my jump over the rope and tripped and fell on your face Hamed, you remember Hamed? Then the champion came out and showed you how it was done, you remember Hamed?", then Naz started saying that he has more talent than Eubank and will be more of a success, and reminding Eubank that Eubank was now fighting on HIS undercard. Eubank suddenly snapped and snatched Naz's WBO belt and slung it across the floor of the airport! Then Naz tried swinging at Eubank to punch him but Eubank dodged it and grabbed Hamed's wrist, little Naz had to be pulled away and his belt had scratches on etc. And then afterwards, Eubank had been apparently struggling to hold back the tears!?
But... they kissed and made up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/232540.stm
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