Nigel Benn on Naseem Hamed

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Naz never stepped up until the Barrera fight.

In 95 and 96 he was mentioning fighting Morales and Barrera...What happened to that? Took him 6 years to grow some balls.

His best win was over Kelley, I reckon(ironically, Kev was the WBU champ at the time). And he got dropped what, three times?

Look, Naz was explosive back in the mid and even towards the late 90's, he woulda caused any of the top guys problems back at his best, but he must've been worried about getting exposed. Warren would have got him the big defining fights eventually, but they split, and Naz went back to the Augie Sanchez type opponents.

His best win was Steve Robinson. Everybody that never followed Naz's career doesn't think he stepped up until the Barerra fight. But Robinson was considered a huge step up and Naseem just made it an easy nights work.

Robinson had something like 9 losses, and was ordinary. Robinson! Pull the other one.

Sure, it was a step-up from who else he was facing at the time, but overall Robinson was cooked.

You obvously know about as much about Robinson as you have read on his record - and not much else. Robinsons early losses are due to the fact that he was just a journeyman taking fights at 24 hours notice and never really taking the game serious as anything other than making a few quid. When he got drafted in at late notice to fight for the title he took his chance and went on to become an excellent fighter. He wasn't Naz's best opponent, but he was very good and honest world champion and very underrrated. Had he had the opportunities Naz had right from the start he may would of become one of the greatest fighter ever to come out of Wales imo

The fact is he put up a terrible effort against Naz, and what did he do after that fight? When he stepped up again, he got beat.

I'm not dissing Robinson, in terms of, I think he was a good fighter. But you're making out like he is this shining beacon on Hamed's record. He's not. Hamed beat him, like he shouldv'e.