Floyd Mayweather Jr in disbelief over lack of respect shown to Prince Naseem

Floyd Mayweather Jr says Prince Naseem Hamed doesn’t get the respect “he truly deserves”, saying that Naz has to be “one of the best fighters to come from the U.K. if not the best.”

Floyd said: “It’s so crazy that Prince Naseem Hamed don’t get the props he truly deserves. We still speak on a regular basis, hell of a showman. A lot of the people in the U.K. forget about him.

We need to give him his flowers, unbelievable, one of the best fighters to come from the UK, if not the best.”

Prince Naseem competed from 1992 to 2002 and held multiple featherweight world championships, reigning as lineal champion from 1998 to 2001. He also held the IBO featherweight title from 2002 to 2003.

He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and The Ring magazine retroactively awarded Hamed their featherweight title in 2019 to acknowledge his dominance of the division and the multiple champions he defeated; he is the only former world champion in any division thus far to receive this honour.