PRINCE NASEEN HAMED has revealed he would consider a return to boxing – for the right reason.
The former fighter retired as a world champion in May 2002 after beating Manuel Calvo to win the IBO featherweight title.
Prince Naseem Hamed is considering a return to the ringCredit: Getty
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He last fought in May 2002Credit: Getty
He was also WBO and WBC featherweight champion and lost just one of his 37 fights.
Hamed, 50, is now considering a return to the ring and dreams of fighting on the same card as his sons – but only if the money went to charity.
He told talkSPORT: “Jake Paul? Jake Paul doesn’t mean anything to me. £20m, what is £20m? £20m, £100m, £200m doesn’t change my lifestyle.
“I am a man that gets on his hands and knees and puts his head on the floor five times a day. I’m humble. It ain’t about that.
“You need to understand something, fighting for a country for somebody to do well, for somebody to raise money, an obscene amount of money, then I could think about that.
“And I could get out of bed and do some serious training and get fit and maybe do it. For that, yes.
“Stranger things have happened. I set my legacy in an amazing way in this boxing world and took it to the dizzy heights of boxing. It’s hard for anybody to reach that kind of level. But I’m from, a country that’s not well off.
“My parents are from a country, Yemen, and I would fight for that country to contribute to them in charitable ways. And the same for Palestine. We stand for Palestine, man.
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“That’s the only time that really deep down in my heart I’d want to fight, to do something on that basis [to raise money].
“So I’d love to go into training and, you never know, if we could do like me, and my three sons all on one card in the Middle East, that would be one of my dreams.”
Prince Naseem’s son Aadam is following in his father’s footsteps.
The sports star made his debut on the Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois undercard when the heavyweight boxers faced off in August 2023.
Prince Naseem’s other son Sami is also a boxer.
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