Is Naseem Hamed as much of a pain in the arse as he seems?
BH: Yeah, he’s a twat. Outside of the ring before the fight I actually said, “Come on, let’s go round the corner and sort it out.” He was giving me verbal and I wasn’t going to play up to his tricks, but at the last press conference we did this photo shoot on a couple of Vespas, you know, the mopeds. He kept jumping from one to the other and saying “I want this one, I want that one” like a big spoilt child. It really pissed me off. I thought, “you little bastard.” We got split up, but I really wanted to twat him. The Naseem fight, I didn’t get a buzz from it all, he was too… not bigoted, but outspoken. The day of the fight was a funny day, because it was the last match at Roker Park. Unfortunately, it all went belly up for me, the thing is, even though I don’t like him he’s a very, very good fighter in his own right. A very powerful man. He walks around a lot heavier than a normal featherweight does. I normally walk around at just under ten stone and he’s closer to eleven, but he sheds
