Boxing is not Jihad (innit)
Prince Naz has ALWAYS been a tool.
Boxing is not Jihad by other means and Hamed would do well to recognise that
Naseem Hamed is being lured out of retirement by a fat American TV deal but, judging from recent photos, he needs to shift a bit of timber himself. He has shot up to more than 13 stone when he used to fight at nine and Barry McGuigan has advised him to stay retired because he'll "never recapture the hunger". I don't think hunger is the problem.
Were he to get back in shape, Naz has said that he would never fight Amir Khan. "There is one thing that I have always stuck to and I always will do, I will never fight another Muslim." What balderdash is this? The requirement of pugilistic motivation is inter-religious conflict? I'm sorry, the Queensbury Rules have no place for Jihad. If, at the height of the black power movement, the great heavyweights had applied the same principle to race we would not have had a rumble in any jungle and, forget Manila, hardly a thriller anywhere. Mind you, there would have been a few more pay days for 'Enery and Joe.
Is that why there are no humanist boxers? They will fight allcomers, so long as they are not human. With this knowledge the key to taking on Hamed (post Atkins) would surely be to convert to Islam early doors, say round one, and let the word spread to his corner.
Hamed's position undermines boxing's credibility because it sends the message that it is more (or less) than a sport. The corollary is that boxing is best practised as brutal conflict with someone who is not like you, ergo you can hurt them without compunction. Is that a healthy message? I would be fascinated to hear a defence of his stance.
Boxing is not Jihad by other means and Hamed would do well to recognise that
Naseem Hamed is being lured out of retirement by a fat American TV deal but, judging from recent photos, he needs to shift a bit of timber himself. He has shot up to more than 13 stone when he used to fight at nine and Barry McGuigan has advised him to stay retired because he'll "never recapture the hunger". I don't think hunger is the problem.
Were he to get back in shape, Naz has said that he would never fight Amir Khan. "There is one thing that I have always stuck to and I always will do, I will never fight another Muslim." What balderdash is this? The requirement of pugilistic motivation is inter-religious conflict? I'm sorry, the Queensbury Rules have no place for Jihad. If, at the height of the black power movement, the great heavyweights had applied the same principle to race we would not have had a rumble in any jungle and, forget Manila, hardly a thriller anywhere. Mind you, there would have been a few more pay days for 'Enery and Joe.
Is that why there are no humanist boxers? They will fight allcomers, so long as they are not human. With this knowledge the key to taking on Hamed (post Atkins) would surely be to convert to Islam early doors, say round one, and let the word spread to his corner.
Hamed's position undermines boxing's credibility because it sends the message that it is more (or less) than a sport. The corollary is that boxing is best practised as brutal conflict with someone who is not like you, ergo you can hurt them without compunction. Is that a healthy message? I would be fascinated to hear a defence of his stance.
posted by Basil Epicurus at 10:50 AM
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