{"id":293090,"date":"2025-11-19T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:55:09","slug":"floyd-mayweather-says-unbelievable-fighter-has-been-forgotten-by-uk-fans-possibly-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293090\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather says ‘unbelievable’ fighter has been forgotten by UK fans: “Possibly the best ever”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The debate for the greatest British fighter of all time is one that remains undecided, but Floyd Mayweather has thrown one name into mix, believing that there is a fighter whom many fans overlook.<\/p>\n

When quizzed on the hot topic, British fight fans are often split between Lennox Lewis, who became the undisputed heavyweight champion in a competitive era, and super-middleweight legend, Joe Calzaghe, who retired undefeated.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, boxing historians often point to the earlier eras of the 20th century, when Ted Kid Lewis<\/a> and Randolph Turpin successfully represented the United Kingdom on the world stage.<\/p>\n

Yet, in a clip captured by Seconds Out<\/a>, Mayweather paid respect to featherweight icon Naseem Hamed, who dominated the 126lb division during the 1990\u2019s and brought attention to a lesser-watched division with his unique and exciting style of fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince Naseem Hamed \u2013 he doesn\u2019t get the props that he truly deserves. We still speak on a regular basis, [he was] one hell of a showman and a lot of people in the U.K. forget about him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to give him his flowers, [he was] unbelievable. One of the best fighters to come from the U.K. \u2013 if not the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to see why Mayweather feels that way, as Naseem Hamed retired with a record of 36-1 in 2002 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n

While it may be over two decades since \u2018Prince Naz\u2019 hung up the gloves, the Hamed name is still present in boxing through his son, Aadam Hamed, who boasts a 6-0 professional record<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate for the greatest British fighter of all time is one that remains undecided, but Floyd Mayweather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-293090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}