{"id":775630,"date":"2026-09-19T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:22:09","slug":"how-the-heir-to-prince-naseem-never-became-king-daniel-teasdales-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775630\/","title":{"rendered":"How the heir to Prince Naseem never became king &#8211; Daniel Teasdale&#8217;s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxer Daniel Teasdale was hailed as the heir to the legendary Prince Naseem Hamed, but his promise never materialised into fame, fortune and films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s better than Naz at the same age,&#8221; said trainer Brendan Ingle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamed had won his first world title aged 21. Teasdale was still a teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ingle, from his gym in Sheffield, moulded the careers of a conveyor belt of world-beaters and title winners. He guided both of the fighters from childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before super-middleweight Teasdale&#8217;s first professional bout, the Rotherham fighter had been featured in national newspapers, books and was being documented by photographers and film-makers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won a succession of national titles, establishing himself as the next contender to emerge from the Ingle gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photographer Simon Roberts travelled to the Ingle gym in 1997 hoping to photograph Hamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Brendan said &#8216;don&#8217;t worry about Naz, start photographing that kid in the corner. He&#8217;s going to be bigger than Naz&#8217;. That was Daniel,&#8221; Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roberts began to follow the young sensation, hoping to capture his rise on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxer Daniel Teasdale was hailed as the heir to the legendary Prince Naseem Hamed, but his promise never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}