Naz rules out retirement talk

In the build-up to his 1997 New York win over Kevin Kelley, Naseem Hamed chose Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping as his big-fight anthem and belted out the words: “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down.”

That’s exactly what he did at Madison Square Garden that December and now the Prince must once again live up to his proud boast if he is to silence the doubters who say he is finished as a top-flight boxer.