{"id":551250,"date":"2026-03-21T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:22:07","slug":"roy-jones-jr-brands-current-champion-a-knock-off-version-of-prince-naseem-hamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551250\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr brands current champion a ‘knock-off version’ of Prince Naseem Hamed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Naseem Hamed was adored for his unique fight style, obscene punch power and polarising character. Now, fan-favourite Roy Jones Jr<\/a> has admitted that one current world champion reminds him of the Wincobank-schooled superstar.<\/p>\n

Hamed captured the WBO featherweight world title with a stoppage of Steve Robinson on away soil in Cardiff and hung onto the title for almost six years, unifying with the IBF and WBC belts during that time.<\/p>\n

During his career, the Sheffield-born slickster knocked out the likes of Kevin Kelley<\/a>, Wilfredo Vazquez and Tom Johnson whilst becoming one of the first Briton\u2019s to truly succeed as a star across the pond, often headlining cards stateside.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Hamed hung up the gloves with a record of 36-1, calling time on a career that saw him shine a light on the 126lb division and become one of the most memorable featherweights of all time.<\/p>\n

Although, it is the welterweight division where Jones believes there is a comparable fighter. In an interview with Fight Hub TV<\/a>, he explained why he believes WBA champion Rolando Romero is a \u2018watered down\u2019 version of Hamed, when discussing Romero\u2019s chances in a potential unification clash with WBO ruler Devin Haney.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he [Rolly] can catch Devin early or hurt Devin, it can become a 50\/50 fight. I told people the same thing when he fought Ryan, I told guys that you got to look at it like this, Rolly is a lot lesser version, a knock-off version, of Prince Naseem Hamed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he hits you, you\u2019ll know that you have been hit because he has got unusual punching power. It\u2019s a watered down version [of Hamed] but it isn\u2019t as watered down as y\u2019all think it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is understood that Haney and Romero will collide on Saturday, May 30<\/a>, with the victor likely to pursue a three-belt unification bout against fellow 147lb champion Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Naseem Hamed was adored for his unique fight style, obscene punch power and polarising character. Now, fan-favourite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-551250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551250","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=551250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}