Naseem Hamed, a 22 year old from Sheffield is currently one of Britain’s most prominent and wealthiest sportsmen. But how did it all start? In 1985, a class of eleven year old boys had been asked to give a talk to their classmates on hobbies. One by one they struggled to fill five minutes with descriptions of stamp collecting and football programmes. Finally, a slightly built boy dressed in designer sportswear swaggered confidently to the front. With a flick of the switch of his portable ghetto-blaster, the classroom was filled with pulsating hip-hop music. Without a word, the 4ft 6 inch boy spent five minutes pummelling the air with his fists in a display of shadowboxing which left the rest of the class speechless. Eleven years later the boy is a man and the schoolroom performance is now offered to a world-wide audience of hundreds of million. Naseem Hamed’s licence to thrill was issued at birth. With foresight maybe his Yemeni parents would have hesitated before they named him Naseem...
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