Naseem Hamed

Prince Naseem Hamed is one of those athletes I find impossible to look away from. A 165 cm featherweight from Sheffield who somersaulted over the ropes on his way in, he turned a so-called minor weight class into must-see global theatre. Plenty dismissed the showmanship as arrogance, but I see a genuine star who understood that boxing is part sport, part spectacle. In just a decade, from 1992 to 2002, he stacked up multiple world titles before bowing out, and his 2015 Hall of Fame induction sealed it. I admire fighters who burn bright and brief, and Naz did exactly that.

Name (English)

Naseem Hamed

Name (Japanese)

ナジーム・ハメド

Reading

なじーむ・はめど

Born

February 12, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

Origin

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Height

165 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• WBO World Featherweight Champion
• 2015 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBC World Featherweight Champion
• IBF World Featherweight Champion
• IBO World Featherweight Champion

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/princenaseemhamed_/
• Xhttps://x.com/PrinceNaseemH
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A1%E3%83%89

Tags

• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.