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00:00:00next on hbo world championship boxing brings you to manchester england where prince nasim

00:00:07hamed will be defending his world featherweight supremacy against fellow yorkshireman paul

00:00:12engel i'm out against engel it's coming up next on hbo next saturday on hbo john cusack

00:00:20is taking the law into his own hands

00:00:22the following is a special presentation of hbo sports the network of champions

00:00:38the knight's ringmaster is the flamboyant prince nasim hamed the undefeated 126 pound featherweight

00:00:57champion and ladies and gentlemen what you're about to see is rarely done in any ring in the world

00:01:04he's only five feet three but his high wire act nevertheless hacks a wallop 28 of 31 opponents

00:01:25are knockout victims the prince is the most impressive fighter around in any weight right

00:01:31now go to beat 24 and have the reflexes of a lion what we just saw was the hagler herds of featherweight

00:01:41fighting but not everyone is clapping hands and stomping feet detractors grow tired of his three

00:01:49ring circus act and call him the clown prince of the ring he's not being everybody's cup of tea

00:01:56in his last fight his bark was worse than his bike as nasim performed more like the lion tamer than the lion

00:02:02itself it's nasim hamed in a title fight for the first time in his career hamed's most recent theatrics

00:02:10a juggling act firing 17-year trainer brendan engel and longtime promoter frank warren

00:02:16so is the nasmataz wearing thin has the crown shrunk too tight for his head or tonight

00:02:23will the prince prove he's still the boxing circus's most entertaining show on earth

00:02:28come inside come inside

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00:03:00From the Manchester Evening News Arena

00:03:30in Manchester, England, HBO Sports presents

00:03:33World Championship Boxing, where tonight

00:03:36England's own Prince Nassim Hamed

00:03:38defends his featherweight title against a fellow

00:03:41Yorkshireman, undefeated Paul Engel.

00:03:45It's scheduled for 12 rounds on a beautiful

00:03:48spring day in the northern England town

00:03:51of Manchester, about 40 miles down the road from Prince Nassim Hamed's

00:03:55hometown of Sheffield. A crowd of about 20,000,

00:03:58perhaps the largest indoor crowd

00:04:00ever to see a boxing match in England

00:04:03fills this Manchester arena to watch their darling

00:04:06Prince Nassim Hamed against a man from nearby Scarborough,

00:04:11also in Yorkshire, Paul Engel.

00:04:13They are both undefeated, and as Prince Nassim said to us

00:04:16yesterday, somebody's own is going to go.

00:04:20Hello again, everybody. I'm Jim Lafley.

00:04:23We welcome you to this special edition of HBO's

00:04:25World Championship Boxing, the first appearance

00:04:28on these airwaves and in the ring for Prince Nassim Hamed

00:04:32since he was forced to go 12 full rounds to earn a unanimous

00:04:36decision against Ireland's Wayne McCullough last October 31,

00:04:40Halloween night. That decision victory for the Prince

00:04:43has increased his unbeaten record to 31-0, but ended his

00:04:47knockout streak at 18 consecutive knockouts and perhaps

00:04:50rubbed off a little of the mystique, which has helped to make

00:04:53him one of the most entertaining, if not the most entertaining

00:04:57fighter in boxing.

00:04:58Working with me as always, HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant.

00:05:02Larry, when the Prince first came to HBO, we all knew the

00:05:05fighter against whom he was matched, Kevin Kelly.

00:05:07Likewise, we've been able since then to recognize Wilfredo

00:05:10Vasquez and Wayne McCullough, both of them former world

00:05:13champions. But who is Paul Engel? And what is he doing

00:05:16fighting Prince Nassim Hamed?

00:05:18Imagine coming all this way, Jim, to watch two Yorkshiremen

00:05:21duke it out. What we want to know is whether Engel is going to

00:05:25be a Yorkshire pudding swallowed whole by one punch from the

00:05:30hard-punching champion, or whether he's going to be a

00:05:33Yorkshire terrier who hunts the champion down like a good

00:05:37ratter should. Engel, in some ways, is a typical English fighter,

00:05:44perhaps a little bit better. But we wonder whether he has the

00:05:46strength to work on this level. He's tough, he's well schooled,

00:05:52and he looks like he hasn't been in the sun in six years. To

00:05:56withstand Hamed's vaunted punch, he's trained himself in unusual

00:06:01ways, jumping into the icy rivers around here, going to an army

00:06:07course to train, and even camping out on the moors with his pet

00:06:12whippets and other beasts of prey. The question, again, is can

00:06:18he take that punch? If he can, and it's a big if, we might have a

00:06:23titanic upset.

00:06:24By way of underlining the style difference, the lifestyle

00:06:27difference between himself and the Prince. Engel likes to say, he

00:06:30has two Bentleys and a Lamborghini, I have two whippets and a ferret.

00:06:35Well, working with us as always, no ferret this man, two-time world

00:06:39heavyweight champion George Foreman, a big fan of the Prince's

00:06:42entertainment value. And George, there's no more unorthodox fighter

00:06:46to be found in the sport than the wild swinging knockout artist,

00:06:49the Prince. But since last we saw him, fired his promoter, fired his

00:06:53manager, fired the trainer who had taken him through 17 years of

00:06:57his career, has hired to replace Patty Engel as former trainer, a

00:07:01guy named Oscar Suarez, who has been working in Patterson, New

00:07:04Jersey for 18 years, but we've never seen him. And now Suarez says

00:07:07that he's making changes in the Prince's style. He did so well

00:07:10doing it the wrong way. Is there any value to trying to make him

00:07:14do it the right way?

00:07:15I don't think so. Like I said earlier, it would be like teaching

00:07:18Einstein to count on his fingers again. You don't want to mess

00:07:21with something so successful. This guy's got everything. He's a

00:07:24little unorthodox, but he's a phenomenon and you don't want to

00:07:27mess with those kind of guys. But if you want to mess with them,

00:07:30this is the right time for your opponent because all of these

00:07:33distractions can cause for a great upset.

00:07:35Well, let's see what happens as Paul Engel looks to take advantage

00:07:39of the main chance against Prince Nassim Ahmed. Here's the tail

00:07:47of the tape for the two Yorkshire men. You see that Engel is one

00:07:50year older. They were more or less contemporaries years ago on

00:07:53the British national amateur boxing team before Engel, not Prince

00:07:57Nassim. Engel went to the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 as the

00:08:01flyweight representative. Engel with a two inch height advantage.

00:08:04They weighed in within a half pound of the limit. Tonight Engel weighs

00:08:07137 to Prince's 136 as they enter the ring. Six and a half inch

00:08:11reach advantage for Engel. But will that help him to stay away

00:08:16from Hamed's power shots? Punch that numbers, Larry.

00:08:20These are the numbers from their last fights. You can see they're

00:08:25vaguely similar. But of course, Hamed is a much bigger puncher.

00:08:29Interestingly, Engel, although he has a reach advantage, is a very

00:08:33aggressive fighter and doesn't use that reach advantage.

00:08:37And here are the power punches, the significant edge that

00:08:41Hamed has. It's a significant edge because he is unorthodox, throws

00:08:46punches from awkward angles that opponents frequently don't see.

00:08:50And rules of the bout from the avid traveler who has eaten fish and

00:08:54chips three times in the last two days, Harold Letterman.

00:08:59Paul Engel will fight his schedule for 12 rounds using the standardized rules of the

00:09:03Association of Boxing Commissions. There is no standing eight count, no three

00:09:08knockdown rule. Only the referee can stop the fight, and he cannot be saved by the

00:09:12bell in any rounds, including the 12th and final round.

00:09:14He has to do it twice tonight if he's kept waiting too long for Hamed in the ring. But it looks

00:09:33like he's got some stuff going on for himself.

00:09:38Trying to upstage Prince Nassim's anticipated customary, overly elaborate

00:09:45entrance. Paul Engel produces his own theatrics.

00:09:49Well, he calls himself the hunter, so I guess we just saw some machine gun bullets outline his

00:10:01attempt here to upstage the Prince. I like it.

00:10:06Oh, you're becoming a fan of these showy entrances, Larry?

00:10:13I like showy entrances. I think that's something boxing can borrow from wrestling,

00:10:18as long as what goes on in the ring is honest.

00:10:22Well, I wonder if Frank Maloney has started his stopwatch yet. Engel's manager Frank Maloney says he'll

00:10:28put a stopwatch on his own fighter's entrance, and then they will, in effect, give the Prince

00:10:33the same amount of time to get into the ring, and if he doesn't get into the ring

00:10:36within the allotted time period established by the stopwatch, then Engel will, as Larry

00:10:42mentioned, leave the ring, go back to the dressing room, and wait to come back out again

00:10:46after the Prince has already made his entrance. We'll see if they'll follow through with that

00:10:50plan. Frank Maloney, the man who is ostensibly holding the stopwatch, you'll recognize as

00:10:55also the manager of world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. Lewis isn't here tonight, incidentally.

00:11:01He spent the weekend in New York for the United States Boxing Writers Association dinner.

00:11:07The Prince called Engel ugly in one of the fight promotion ads, and Maloney said the Prince

00:11:20must not have any mirrors in his house.

00:11:29Well, there it is. Engel makes his entrance in a fatigued outfit,

00:11:34befitting his paramilitary approach to training.

00:11:37He calls himself in the Yorkshire Hunter. This is hunting gear.

00:11:42He recognized referee Joe Cortez, one of the finest referees in the sport, as he stands in

00:11:48front of Engel and begins individual instructions. There's the record for Paul Engel. 21 wins,

00:11:54no losses, no draws, 15 KOs. A lot of people say, well, his most significant opponent was

00:11:59Billy Hardy. Prince Nassim knocked out Billy Hardy in one round.

00:12:03And we can see Maloney saying they took six minutes to come into the ring. He's got a stopwatch in his hand.

00:12:20And there's Maloney holding the stopwatch. So you presume that Maloney has now established

00:12:27for purposes of this camp.

00:12:31Well, you know, and he has a point. He says,

00:12:33What's the time limit is?

00:12:34I've warmed up my fighter in the dressing room. We're coming out here. It's just not fair to have him

00:12:39freeze for 10 or 15 minutes.

00:12:42You saw what happened to Kevin Kelly in Madison Square Garden as he stood in the ring and watched

00:12:47and waited, watched and waited for the Prince finally to enter.

00:12:52But I would like to have an opponent

00:12:54leave the ring and make that walk way back out and come out again.

00:12:58That would be great.

00:13:00So I'm actually trying to exploit that.

00:13:02So you think they'd be cutting off their noses to spite their face

00:13:05if they do what Maloney plans?

00:13:07George, it's not that long of a walk.

00:13:10Yeah, but that's the kind of walk, an emotional walk

00:13:12that you don't want your fighter to do but once.

00:13:14It's all about emotion.

00:13:18Now, Prince Nassim, incidentally,

00:13:21well aware of Maloney's announced plan to pull a fighter out of the ring

00:13:26and a master of gamesmanship, or at least certainly he sees himself that way,

00:13:31has not yet left his dressing room.

00:13:34I guess he's daring Maloney and Engel

00:13:37to follow through on their threat.

00:13:46Last Halloween in Atlantic City,

00:13:49Nassim cut short his entrance by several planned minutes.

00:13:54Seemed to sort of cut it off in midstream

00:13:56and just walk directly to the ring as if to say,

00:13:58I'm a little tired of the show this evening.

00:14:02Later admitted that he was out of sorts coming into the fight.

00:14:05We knew that he was arguing with his trainer.

00:14:08He said that he was poorly nourished

00:14:11and not well-conditioned for the fight

00:14:14and also on the wrong time clock

00:14:16because he had only gotten to the United States

00:14:17four days prior to the assigned date in Atlantic City.

00:14:21And maybe that had something to do with his cutting short the entrance.

00:14:24Maybe he knew that he wasn't about to produce

00:14:26one of those explosive signature performances.

00:14:30Well, I think Wayne McCullough

00:14:31had more to do with it than he did.

00:14:33Yep.

00:14:36If Engel is as tough as McCullough,

00:14:38we could have some fun here tonight.

00:14:40So Maloney apparently timing Hamed's entrance starting now.

00:15:00And that would seem to indicate that in a couple minutes

00:15:03Maloney's going to turn to his fighter and say,

00:15:06let's get out of here and they're going to leave the ring

00:15:07and go back to the dressing room.

00:15:09You know, in a day we fought for the world titles

00:15:12back in the 60s and 70s,

00:15:14we'd have to wait for a long time anyway.

00:15:16The champion will come in.

00:15:17Then we put the gloves on in the ring.

00:15:20We taped the glove.

00:15:21So there's nothing unusual about waiting in the ring.

00:15:28What about NASA's entrance tonight, Larry?

00:15:30What's in the offing?

00:15:32Well, I've heard it has something to do with automobiles.

00:15:37He's in an automobile buff,

00:15:39although in his new image as being more modest

00:15:43ladies and gentlemen, making his entrance to the ring.

00:15:46He's just the defending champion.

00:15:47It has to do with Martin here and a proof horse.

00:15:49There he is.

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00:16:43And for the Saint Joseph Camp leaves the ring.

00:16:45As promised, Paul Engel, at the behest of manager Frank Maloney,

00:16:50has left the ring and headed back to the dressing room

00:16:52as the Hamad entrance begins with triple princes.

00:16:56Well, the prince likes to do a solo act.

00:16:59When he gets into the ring, he may have to do one.

00:17:01This is the real Prince, actually, come out there, man.

00:17:14Folks, Prince Ahmed, I've heard, is getting a reported $7 million for this fight tonight.

00:17:36Most of it from overseas.

00:17:38Sources of television revenues.

00:17:41This is why he gets all that money.

00:17:44Whoa.

00:17:45I can't wait to say that.

00:17:47Yeah.

00:17:48Get some sweet.

00:17:53All right, let's get my music to be.

00:18:00Yeah.

00:18:02Oh, yeah.

00:18:07Maybe he has a new choreographer as well as a new trainer, a new promoter, and a new manager.

00:18:14All right, let's get to his music, but let me see some dancing.

00:18:20Come on, come on.

00:18:25Let me see some dancing.

00:18:33All right.

00:18:34Come to the mic.

00:18:35The Prince seems disappointed that he's not getting the response he had hoped to get with

00:18:45this entrance.

00:18:49Well, not a lot of people can see what's going on, to be honest with you.

00:18:52The sight lines run such that they can all see it.

00:18:55What do you think he's going to do when he gets to the ring and he turns out to be the

00:19:08only fighter there?

00:19:09Maybe he'll lead.

00:19:12Go back to the dressing room.

00:19:14Here comes Engel.

00:19:19So, George, you would say that he just played into the Prince's hands.

00:19:22That's right.

00:19:22That's one thing you want to do.

00:19:24You want to be solid.

00:19:25And everything you do is strictly basic.

00:19:28We move out of that.

00:19:29We're moving into his territory, and he's the king of it.

00:19:31In case you haven't seen him before, get ready for the flip over-the-top rope into the ring.

00:19:54The coup de grace, as it were, of this entrance.

00:20:01This is as usual for Prince Nassim Hamed.

00:20:23You mentioned the new trainer, Oscar Suarez, originally from Puerto Rico.

00:20:27Last 28 years in Patterson, New Jersey.

00:20:29Here comes Paul Engel back into the ring.

00:20:36Prince Nassim with record of 31-0, 28 knockouts, but new promoter, new trainer, maybe a new

00:20:43in-the-ring style.

00:20:45Emanuel Stewart has also been hired on for the night to advise Suarez and Hamed.

00:20:50Ostensibly, he'll only talk to the trainer, but you've got to wait and see.

00:20:54Emanuel's not shy if something goes wrong.

00:20:59There's Suarez, the new trainer.

00:21:01There's Manny Stewart walking right in front of him.

00:21:06And Michael Buffer waiting for his cue to provide the official introductions.

00:21:11Emanuel Stewart is here because in a later bout, actually the walkout bout here tonight,

00:21:24his most famous fighter ever, Tommy Hearns, is fighting against Nate Miller in a cruiserweight bout.

00:21:35Since he was going to be on the scene anyway, it was apparently the Prince's idea to have him involved

00:21:41in what has suddenly become a pretty strong corner beyond the relatively unknown trainer.

00:21:46Stewart, and brand new cut man, Al Gavin, one of the very best at his trade.

00:21:52The Prince has never been cut, he says, but he hired Gavin anyway.

00:21:56Here's Engel.

00:21:57And here comes Michael Buffer.

00:22:00My lords, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Manchester Evening News Arena here in Manchester, England,

00:22:09where tonight, Barry Hearn and Charles Munez of Matchroom, in association with Prince Promotions,

00:22:16as-salamu alaykum to boxing fans around the world,

00:22:19along with your undisputed, undefeated king of beer, Budweiser, the genuine article,

00:22:27are proud to present 12 rounds of boxing for the WBO Featherweight Championship of the World.

00:22:39Sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control, General Secretary John Morris,

00:22:43and the World Boxing Organization, President and Supervisor Ringside for tonight's bout,

00:22:50Francisco Barcarcel, Timekeeper at the Bell, Barry Pinder.

00:22:55The three judges scoring this bout on a 10-point must system will be

00:22:59John Coyle from England, Roy Francis, also from England,

00:23:05Michael Pernick from the United States,

00:23:08and when the bell rings, your referee in charge of the action,

00:23:12working for the 113th time in a world title bout, Joe Cortez.

00:23:20And now, boxing fans, are you ready?

00:23:27Manchester, Sheffield, and Scarborough, are you ready?

00:23:38For the thousands in attendance, and the millions watching around the world,

00:23:45ladies and gentlemen,

00:23:48let's get ready to rumble!

00:24:01Introducing first, fighting out of the red corner,

00:24:04wearing combat camouflage and weighing in at 125 and one-half pounds,

00:24:11or eight stone, 13 and one-half pounds.

00:24:15He brings an outstanding professional record to this ring,

00:24:18consisting of 22 bouts with 21 victories,

00:24:2215 contests ending inside the distance by knockout,

00:24:26and he has one draw.

00:24:29Ladies and gentlemen,

00:24:30here is the former British featherweight champion,

00:24:32former Commonwealth featherweight champion,

00:24:35and former European featherweight champion,

00:24:39from Scarborough, England,

00:24:41the challenger,

00:24:43the undefeated Yorkshire hunter,

00:24:46Paul Engel!

00:24:50And his opponent across the ring,

00:24:58fighting out of the blue corner,

00:25:00wearing a leopard trimmed with Adidas,

00:25:03wearing 126 pounds or nine stone even.

00:25:09His perfect professional record consists of 31 bouts,

00:25:13all 31 bouts by victory,

00:25:15putting nine of those victories by knockout,

00:25:19and he has captured two world titles.

00:25:21Tonight, he makes his 12th defense of his world championship,

00:25:26and he plans to maintain his recognition by many as,

00:25:29pound for pound,

00:25:30one of the best in the world.

00:25:32Ladies and gentlemen,

00:25:34from Sheffield, England,

00:25:35presenting the undefeated WBO featherweight champion of the world,

00:25:44man of the British Empire,

00:25:46Bruce Nelsey Hammond!

00:25:51All right, gentlemen.

00:26:04We went over to the dressing room.

00:26:07I expect a good for the fight.

00:26:09Obey my commands at all times.

00:26:11Give me good sportsmen like conduct.

00:26:12Understood?

00:26:13Any questions on this side here?

00:26:15Any questions here?

00:26:17All right.

00:26:18Touch them up.

00:26:19When this is over here,

00:26:22are we going to be seeing,

00:26:24singing Paul Garfunkel's

00:26:26Are you going to Scarborough Fair for Engel?

00:26:29Or from the musical here

00:26:31for the champion,

00:26:33Manchester, Manchester, England,

00:26:35across the Atlantic Sea?

00:26:38I am a genius, genius.

00:26:42That would be Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon.

00:26:46Simon and Garfunkel.

00:26:49And round one begins.

00:26:52You caught a brief ringside glimpse

00:26:54of Nassim's father, Sal Hamed.

00:26:57And to go back to the early discussion

00:26:59with George Foreman about a change in style,

00:27:02the trainer says that he wants Hamed

00:27:03to be better balanced

00:27:04in a tighter envelope,

00:27:06boxing more conventionally

00:27:08out of the southpaw stance, George.

00:27:09And I hate the thought of that.

00:27:11It would be like,

00:27:12like I said earlier,

00:27:12sending Einstein to Harvard

00:27:14to get an English degree

00:27:15just so he could do his math.

00:27:16This guy's got the whole package.

00:27:19You should let him alone.

00:27:20You can see why Engel is regarded

00:27:22as a pretty good defensive fighter.

00:27:24His head movement,

00:27:25his hands held high.

00:27:30Conventional wisdom is that

00:27:31fighters revert to form.

00:27:33Form for Prince Nassim

00:27:34is to launch wild shots

00:27:36from odd angles

00:27:38while avoiding his opponent's punches

00:27:42in the least conventional ways,

00:27:44ducking his head backward

00:27:45or from side to side.

00:27:46He's had enormous punching power

00:27:48with either hand.

00:27:49And I like what he's just done.

00:27:50He did something stupid,

00:27:52and that's what he does best.

00:27:54You want to call the other gal

00:27:56to do the other things

00:27:57that he can't do.

00:27:57He's had a career

00:28:00of beating basic boxers.

00:28:02Why change and make him

00:28:03a basic boxer?

00:28:05After failing to come through

00:28:06on a prediction

00:28:07of a third-round KO

00:28:08against McCullough

00:28:09last October,

00:28:11Prince Nassim stayed away

00:28:12from any specific round prediction

00:28:14for a knockout in this fight,

00:28:16but as his confidence grew

00:28:17in the last couple days,

00:28:18he did say,

00:28:19don't blink.

00:28:20The Prince looking for an opening

00:28:25in that shell defense from Ingo.

00:28:29Hey, Harold Letterman,

00:28:31they're wearing different colored gloves.

00:28:32Is there a story there?

00:28:33Yeah, Jim.

00:28:34At the rules meeting,

00:28:35the champion picks first.

00:28:37He picked a brand-new pair of red gloves.

00:28:38They didn't have another pair

00:28:40of brand-new red gloves left.

00:28:41Some point Ingo got stuck with the other.

00:28:43Don't blink.

00:28:45Ingo goes down on the left hand.

00:28:47Oh!

00:28:48Five!

00:28:49Six!

00:28:51Hadn't been knocked down

00:28:52in five years.

00:28:53Only the second time in his career

00:28:54he's been knocked down.

00:28:55I guess the punching power

00:28:56remains intact.

00:28:57The power is there.

00:28:59Now, you look,

00:28:59Joe Cortez,

00:29:00when you see him in the ring,

00:29:02that means the champion

00:29:03is not worried about losing his crown.

00:29:05But this man has integrity.

00:29:11He should be crowned the referee,

00:29:13the best referee

00:29:15as far as integrity is in town.

00:29:17Hard right hand by Hamed.

00:29:18Drives Ingo into the ropes.

00:29:21Prince Nassim has landed

00:29:22some power wallops

00:29:23in the first round.

00:29:25Two left hands and a right.

00:29:27And now Ingo lands a right hand

00:29:29coming back.

00:29:31Oh!

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00:30:04And I see him trying to fight from a conventional stance left to the body, left to the head.

00:30:30A wonderful two-punch combination.

00:30:36As promised us, more body shots than we've seen in the past, and the left to the body there perfectly set up the power shot.

00:30:44In round one, Prince Nassim landing 18 of 52 punches by CompuBox number, 17 of the power shots.

00:30:51Engel, five of only 38, and Engel had promised us that he would throw 140 punches around.

00:30:58No problem, he said. 38 punches in the first round, only 102 short of his predicted number.

00:31:12It's hard to throw a lot of punches against Prince Nassim, George, because he stays at a distance and dodges from side to side.

00:31:18He'll slide his lead foot ahead and then slide it back to you, so he keeps in position.

00:31:24Put that foot right back up there and hits you.

00:31:27I like that. Slide in, slide out.

00:31:30Nassim misses with a right hand.

00:31:33He's only thrown a few jabs.

00:31:35Engel just has not been able to set up and mount an offense because he cannot or will not get close.

00:31:41This after claiming to us that he would come in and put his face on Nassim's face and try to fight him in a phone booth.

00:31:47It only took one left hand to alter that strategy.

00:31:50Once you taste that kind of power from a guy like that, you've got to protect yourself.

00:31:56Now, incidentally, with regard to the use of the term title here, Nass doesn't own one of the three more notorious titles given by the well-known so-called governing bodies.

00:32:08The one he owns is a sort of off-brand, but in terms of his public impact and his accomplishment, he's the number one featherweight in the sport.

00:32:16That's why we designate him as the champion.

00:32:19He is definitely the champion.

00:32:23He's better beware that Engel has come here to win.

00:32:27Even though you knock him out, you can't play with him.

00:32:35Engel comes in close.

00:32:37Has lands an uppercut.

00:32:39And you see the fluidity with which Prince Nassim is able to throw his combinations with power cuts when you get in close.

00:32:46You have to be careful, Engel is using elbows a little here.

00:32:49Oh, he said he'll use everything.

00:32:51Elbows, forehead.

00:32:52He said he can't mess around in there.

00:32:54You've got to do anything you can to hurt the guy.

00:32:56I don't like the idea of a guy gloves on and un-gloved elbows.

00:33:02I think for a lot of guys out there who would like to be referees, they should really watch Joe Cortez.

00:33:17Most you see him out of the picture, which is the best picture you want to see for a referee.

00:33:23I do remember him getting into the picture to count out Michael Moore on November 5, 1994.

00:33:28Ups.

00:33:31Uppercut lands for Nassim, backs Engel up again.

00:33:34Get in the way!

00:33:41Engel is starting to use his footwork left and right, and that's what I would do.

00:33:45Anything that Nassim does tonight, remember, he's half-heartedly doing it.

00:33:49He's messed up in training camp.

00:33:57For the featherweight championship of Yorkshire and the world.

00:34:01Okay, that's good, okay, baby, but remember, that job has to be a little bit more sharper than that, right?

00:34:06You're being a little lazy with it, all right?

00:34:08Now, remember, you don't have to fall into his fight, okay?

00:34:10You keep doing your fight, okay?

00:34:12Now, like I say, two hands to the body, okay, baby?

00:34:15Now, we have to keep it down, remember?

00:34:17We have to keep it down, all right?

00:34:19So, we have to be looking a little bit more sharper than that, all right?

00:34:22And pick him, pick him nice, okay?

00:34:25Okay, pick him nice, and remember, we don't have one hand, all right?

00:34:28We got three hands, okay, baby?

00:34:30Okay?

00:34:31And we're going to turn him just a little bit.

00:34:32We don't need to reach with him.

00:34:33Just turn him a little bit, all right, baby?

00:34:35And go.

00:34:36Okay?

00:34:37Then we go with the motion.

00:34:38Okay, baby?

00:34:39So, we're going to go to the bank now, right?

00:34:42What a contrast to last October 31 when Brendan Eagle barely tried to speak to Hamed,

00:34:47and Hamed made clear that he wouldn't listen to him if he did.

00:34:50Tonight, listening very intently to the new voice in his corner, Oscar Suarez with George.

00:34:55He spent 17 years listening to one voice in the corner.

00:34:58How strange is it for the Prince now to be listening to an entirely new guy?

00:35:02It's shocking.

00:35:03It's going to take more than just sitting in a corner.

00:35:05It just does not sink in because the guy gets to be part of him, that voice.

00:35:10And this guy has not become a part of him yet.

00:35:13As you see, he hasn't thrown one body shot as he was told.

00:35:16Now you see one.

00:35:17But it was back to the head.

00:35:18Like, I believe I know what I'm doing.

00:35:20He spent his whole life polishing a style which is completely and entirely his own.

00:35:30There isn't another fighter in the sport who attacks in exactly the same way as Prince

00:35:34Nassim Hamed.

00:35:35Suarez wants more conventionality.

00:35:37Suarez wants more conventionality.

00:35:38The Prince just wants to smile and knock people for a loop with power shots.

00:35:42Like that.

00:35:44Ingle is really smart.

00:35:45When he's not doing anything, he's moving his hair.

00:35:48You've got to keep your hands up at all time and tuck your chin with a puncher like this.

00:35:53Ingle keeping his right glove pinned to his cheek, the guard against the left hand.

00:35:58And that time, Hamed punches right through the guard.

00:36:01And lands a right.

00:36:03Ingle just hasn't been able to mount any kind of attack.

00:36:10Well, what makes Hamed special is not just his power, but his combination of the power, the quickness, the eyesight that sees everything coming.

00:36:19That's right.

00:36:20The movement.

00:36:23The eyesight.

00:36:24I like that.

00:36:25The reflexes.

00:36:26Yeah, he watches everything.

00:36:28The fact that the other fighter stands in front of him, having been trained to fight conventionally

00:36:32and wonders what in the world this guy thinks he's doing and can't believe how effective it is.

00:36:39Breaks a few rules here and there, but let me tell you, he makes up for it with the power.

00:36:44It's a little like standing on the practice tee in golf and watching somebody with a horrendous swing and saying,

00:36:49Oh, I'm going to tear this guy up on the course.

00:36:51And then after five holes, you're four shots down and you're thinking, What happened?

00:36:55Ingle is starting to go to the body just a little now.

00:37:01He's starting to get through.

00:37:03And Hamed comes back with a three-punch combination.

00:37:08And he's wanting to go to the body with a combination, but Hamid has got to understand that your fighter must be coming to you to be able to land that shot.

00:37:17You can't go to him and throw combinations to the body.

00:37:20And they're ducking, smiling, firing the left hand, just missing.

00:37:24Ingle misses wildly with the left, and Hamid effectively counters him inside.

00:37:29Prince Nassim, delighting his fans in the crowd through the first three rounds with some vintage Nassim moves.

00:37:39Now the prince is starting to throw away a lot of his strength and endurance by throwing such hard shots.

00:37:54Well, he's extremely knockout conscious, and tonight, maybe more so than ever.

00:37:59He's holding up.

00:38:00How you feeling?

00:38:01How you feeling?

00:38:02Great.

00:38:03Good, good.

00:38:04Take it deeper, baby.

00:38:05Take it deeper.

00:38:06Take it deeper.

00:38:07Excellent.

00:38:08Excellent.

00:38:09Now, we rushed there a little bit, all right?

00:38:10Which you didn't need to.

00:38:11Okay, baby?

00:38:12You didn't need to do that, all right?

00:38:14Remember, you keep to the point, okay, baby?

00:38:17Now, every time you throw that hook there, baby, I want to see it to the body, okay?

00:38:21Because he's there for you.

00:38:22Automatically, he's right there for you.

00:38:23Uh-huh.

00:38:24Okay, baby?

00:38:25So, we have to do it.

00:38:26Okay?

00:38:27Uh-huh.

00:38:28Here you go.

00:38:29Awesome.

00:38:30Now, again.

00:38:31Again, baby.

00:38:32We still...

00:38:33Eagles trainer is named Steve Pollard, himself a veteran fighter.

00:38:36Round four.

00:38:37Oh!

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00:38:52Ingle is getting $500,000 for this fight.

00:38:56By far the biggest purse of his career.

00:39:00He's also bet $10,000 on himself.

00:39:0310,000 pounds.

00:39:0410,000 pounds, which is about $16,000.

00:39:07That bet doesn't look too good right now.

00:39:10Odds of 11-2.

00:39:11If he wins the bet, he wins 55,000 pounds to go on top of his purse.

00:39:15Harold, how do you have it through three?

00:39:17He's got a good punch in 3-0, 30 to 26.

00:39:1830 to 26.

00:39:19Prince to see him.

00:39:20I mean, give him an extra point for the knockdown in round one.

00:39:23Certainly he's winning his fight.

00:39:24A clean punch for the left-handed spits.

00:39:26He's murdering him.

00:39:27Good defense, good effect of aggressive and piss by the Prince as well.

00:39:32I think the big mistake, the corner talking too much.

00:39:36You want to tell this guy, fight your fight.

00:39:38Don't forget to get into that baton and let him alone.

00:39:42They did ask for body shots again.

00:39:44And if Emanuel Stewart is playing an active role in that corner,

00:39:46he's doing it during the rounds, talking to Suarez.

00:39:49Actually, he's seated on the opposite side of the corner from Suarez.

00:39:53So for the moment, there can be no conversation between Emanuel and Oscar Suarez.

00:39:56So he's talking to Suarez, his brother now, who's a cheap second.

00:39:59But Emanuel Stewart, so far, not talking to the prince.

00:40:03Left hand lands for Nassim.

00:40:05And the number.

00:40:07He was caught by a straight right hand himself.

00:40:09Yeah, first time he took a good punch to the head.

00:40:14And there he goes to the body.

00:40:17But it's not necessary that he integrated all that body punching into his style.

00:40:21It let it come in the flow.

00:40:25You want him to headhunt the Yorkshire hunter?

00:40:28Yeah.

00:40:29Go after him, and then if you're able to get a body shot, just remind him of it.

00:40:32But don't have him going out doing things he's not accustomed to.

00:40:35There's a trickle of blood from the right nostril of the prince.

00:40:44With right hand counter for Nassim.

00:40:47Engel becoming much more aggressive now around four.

00:40:49He keeps all his punches up.

00:40:50He's in success.

00:40:51I hear exactly what you're saying, George.

00:41:01You think that Nassim's a lot better off if he just follows his instincts in there,

00:41:05because you can almost see him trying to think his way through what his new trainer wants him to do.

00:41:09Well, see, when you're thinking body punching, you automatically bend your face down.

00:41:14That's why you see the bleeding of the nose.

00:41:15So Engel begins to mount an attack after having been frustrated through the first three rounds by the elusiveness of the prince.

00:41:29In the last round, he got up to 57 thrown punches.

00:41:33This will be the first round in which he's landed a double-figure number of punches.

00:41:37Engel must be in great shape to be going at this rate.

00:41:54April and May boxing on HBO.

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00:41:59Its lightweight champion, Shane Mosley, takes on John Brown.

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00:42:09In May, it only gets better.

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00:42:22Then one week later, on the 29th, boxing's other premier welterweight champion, Felix Trinidad,

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00:42:30This time, he'll beat Vincent Pettway in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April and May boxing on HBO.

00:42:45And now, for the first time, we can see Emmanuel Stewart beginning to talk to Prince Nassim Ahmed between rounds.

00:42:54Engel landed 13 of 57 punches in round four.

00:42:57That's by far his best round in the bout.

00:43:00Prince Nassim, 18 of 65 by CompuVox numbers, most of them power shots as usual.

00:43:08Engel is doing something I like.

00:43:10You get a guy, basically, who's a boxer, who possesses a punch, make him come after you.

00:43:19Throws away a lot of punching power, make him follow you around.

00:43:22He's going to stay.

00:43:39Beforehand, Prince would get a rhythm to it.

00:43:41He'd hit you with two to the right.

00:43:43Then he'd throw a power shot.

00:43:44All that rhythm factor he has is going.

00:43:47He lands two lefts, including one to the body.

00:43:50Engel comes back with a couple of left hands

00:43:52as Nassim stalked and looked for a chance to throw a right.

00:43:55Prince Nassim changing his lead foot from time to time.

00:43:58Now goes into a conventional stance.

00:44:01On paper, he's a southpaw.

00:44:03In reality, he's whatever he feels like at any given moment.

00:44:06Yep, but he's...

00:44:07The rhythm that he possesses,

00:44:08he would always do one, two, three-something.

00:44:12Now he's just waiting for one shot here and there.

00:44:17Ingle himself is a natural southpaw.

00:44:21Rights and brushes his teeth with his left hand,

00:44:24but fights, as you can see, out of a conventional stance,

00:44:26and that helps his jab and his hook.

00:44:38Nassim's right uppercut was blocked by Ingle's glove,

00:44:41but he lands the left as Ingle continues to stalk

00:44:44and look for bigger opportunities.

00:44:47Now he's missing with the uppercuts,

00:44:50but if he lands one, he's gonna score.

00:44:56Ingle reaching the far right to the body.

00:44:59Seems to feel as though he's weathered the early power score.

00:45:04Remember, Prince Nassim knocked Ingle down

00:45:07with a left hand in round one.

00:45:09A double left, really, one to the body and one to the face.

00:45:11Slight welt under the right eye of the prince.

00:45:19A lot of that has to do with him reaching in for those body shots.

00:45:22Everything else he does is solid reflex,

00:45:26but when he goes to the body, it's a reach forward.

00:45:31Crowd kind of sitting back in its seats now

00:45:34as the action slows in round five.

00:45:37Nass going back to his elusiveness

00:45:39to stay away from Ingle,

00:45:41who landed enough in the fourth and fifth

00:45:44to get Nass' attention.

00:45:46Now Nass is doing his thing.

00:45:48Put your hands down.

00:45:49Relax.

00:45:53That was boring.

00:45:54Earlier tonight, we had some excitement.

00:46:00Junior Jones fighting on the undercard

00:46:02against a little-known Coventry Englishman

00:46:05named Richard Ebbett.

00:46:06In the first round,

00:46:07Ebbett, with the tiger-striped hair,

00:46:09put Junior down.

00:46:11And in round four,

00:46:12already behind on the scorecards,

00:46:14Jones was penalized a point for holding

00:46:16by English referee Paul Thomas.

00:46:19In round eight,

00:46:20they stood toe-to-toe and went at each other,

00:46:22and Ebbett landed a right hand

00:46:24that again put Junior Jones seemingly in trouble.

00:46:28But in round 11,

00:46:28trailing on two scorecards

00:46:30and with his career hanging in the balance,

00:46:32the former two-time world champion Junior Jones

00:46:34landed a clean left-hand shot

00:46:37that put Richard Ebbett down and out.

00:46:41And he won the fight,

00:46:42although, as you see,

00:46:43going into the 11th,

00:46:44Jones trailed on two of the three scorecards

00:46:48and seemed, in our eyes,

00:46:50headed toward defeat.

00:46:51Yeah, he looked like a shock fighter

00:46:53for ten rounds,

00:46:54but found some ammunition,

00:46:57reloaded, and unloaded.

00:46:58And landed a shot in the dark

00:47:00to salvage, for the moment,

00:47:02his career.

00:47:07Round six,

00:47:09Prince Nassim,

00:47:10with a whitewash so far

00:47:11on Harold Lederman's guard.

00:47:12He's won every one of the five rounds

00:47:14as we come toward the midway point of the bout.

00:47:18When you've boasted of your greatness,

00:47:21when you've told everybody

00:47:22you're the second coming of Muhammad Ali,

00:47:25you create a very high standard,

00:47:27and that's how he's going to be judged.

00:47:29He could win this fight 12 rounds to nine,

00:47:32but if he doesn't put more hurt on Engel,

00:47:35doesn't stop him,

00:47:36it will not be

00:47:38a victory

00:47:40as far as the media

00:47:41and the fans are concerned.

00:47:43And will it be a moral victory

00:47:44for Paul Engel?

00:47:45Well, of course.

00:47:45I mean, it's a win.

00:47:47You go on to the next fight,

00:47:48can't knock everybody out,

00:47:50but Prince has established himself

00:47:52in such a way

00:47:53that that is

00:47:54the high expectations of him.

00:47:56Did McCullough,

00:47:57though he won very few rounds,

00:47:59get a moral victory

00:48:00for going the distance

00:48:00against the Prince

00:48:01last Halloween?

00:48:02Well, in a sense,

00:48:03he's earned a fight

00:48:04with Eric Morales,

00:48:05the wonderful

00:48:06junior featherweight champion

00:48:08in May.

00:48:09So that showing

00:48:10helped him.

00:48:13You've got to remember,

00:48:14Muhammad Ali

00:48:15got a lot of decisions.

00:48:16What he did

00:48:16was to shuffle

00:48:17in between the rounds

00:48:18to make him

00:48:19keep himself popular.

00:48:20The knockouts

00:48:21don't come for a lot.

00:48:23It's almost a fluke

00:48:24that happens

00:48:24beyond your expectations.

00:48:26Yeah, when he had

00:48:2718 in a row, George.

00:48:29I've had 30 of them

00:48:30in a row.

00:48:31It doesn't mean a thing.

00:48:32Winning that big W.

00:48:35That's what we come to see.

00:48:37I agree with you.

00:48:38We're talking about

00:48:39a fighter whose

00:48:40popularity is what counts.

00:48:42It's what puts people

00:48:44into the seats

00:48:45to want to watch him.

00:48:47George, you had

00:48:4830 knockouts in a row.

00:48:49Nassim is landing

00:48:50a lot of shots

00:48:51in this round, incidentally.

00:48:52You had 30 KOs in a row

00:48:54and the highest knockout

00:48:55percentage of any

00:48:56heavyweight champion.

00:48:57Can you honestly tell me

00:48:58you were just as happy

00:48:59with the 12-round

00:49:00decision victories?

00:49:01Yeah, I went to

00:49:0212-round distance

00:49:03with Evander Holyfield,

00:49:05for instance.

00:49:06Seemed like I got

00:49:07a hand up

00:49:07because I did it.

00:49:08So people are not

00:49:09looking for a knockout.

00:49:10They dress up,

00:49:11put on their suits

00:49:12and sit down

00:49:12and watch a fight.

00:49:13If they get a knockout,

00:49:14good.

00:49:17What tells the story?

00:49:19We'll see after the night

00:49:20with the ratings.

00:49:22How many seats

00:49:23were about to have been?

00:49:23Well, I think it sort of

00:49:24depends on how you sell it.

00:49:25You never went out

00:49:26of your way,

00:49:27as the Prince does,

00:49:28style yourself a knockout artist

00:49:30say you were going to

00:49:31dominate your opponent.

00:49:32The body shot in it again.

00:49:34Second vicious left-hand

00:49:36body shot of the evening

00:49:37for Nassim.

00:49:38You can't catch his wind.

00:49:41That's a hard shot

00:49:42to recover from.

00:49:43Only 10 seconds

00:49:44left in the round.

00:49:45Let's see if Nass

00:49:45launched as a Wilder.

00:49:48Went back to the body.

00:49:51With both hands

00:49:52to the body.

00:49:53And really hurt Engel

00:49:55as the sixth round

00:49:56comes to a close.

00:49:58That's what they came

00:49:59to see, George.

00:50:00That's right.

00:50:02That's right.

00:50:04But they would love

00:50:05to see it for 12 rounds.

00:50:07That's what we want, okay?

00:50:09Deep breath.

00:50:10Come on, give me deep breath.

00:50:11Give me deep breath.

00:50:12Come on, come on.

00:50:12Give me deep breath.

00:50:13Give me deep breath.

00:50:14All right, see?

00:50:15So now we're having fun.

00:50:17Okay, baby?

00:50:18Now we're having fun.

00:50:18Okay?

00:50:19Another deep breath.

00:50:21Another deep, baby.

00:50:22Come on.

00:50:22A little deep.

00:50:23Yeah, there you are.

00:50:23Okay, Jeff.

00:50:24I got no call, right?

00:50:25No.

00:50:26Beautiful.

00:50:33Left to the body,

00:50:34something we didn't see

00:50:35the prints do much of

00:50:38in the past.

00:50:39There's no opening up top

00:50:40because of the defense of Engel.

00:50:42That body punch

00:50:43put a hurtin' look

00:50:45on Engel's face.

00:50:46And it was done

00:50:47right in the floor of things.

00:50:48He didn't aim for it.

00:50:49He just let it happen.

00:50:50That facial expression

00:50:51from Engel tells you

00:50:52everything you need to know

00:50:53about the natural

00:50:54punting power

00:50:55of Prince Nassim.

00:50:56Some fighters just have

00:50:58heavy hands

00:50:58and he is a case in point.

00:51:01What we wonder now

00:51:02is whether he'll bring

00:51:03his right hand down

00:51:04and leave his jaw open.

00:51:07Harold, how do you have it?

00:51:08Through six.

00:51:09Jim, 60 to 52,

00:51:10six rats to death

00:51:11on Prince Nassim Hamed.

00:51:12Jim, let me tell you something.

00:51:13The knockdown,

00:51:14he knocked him down

00:51:15with a left hook.

00:51:16That means he was fighting

00:51:16out of the right-handed stance.

00:51:17He switched it right

00:51:18and lefty very often

00:51:19and he's very effective

00:51:20about it.

00:51:22He's now back

00:51:23in the southpaw stance

00:51:24so left hands here

00:51:25are crosses.

00:51:26Either way,

00:51:27they're effective.

00:51:28And while he does

00:51:30generate power

00:51:30with the right hand,

00:51:31the more we watch him,

00:51:32the more it seems

00:51:33that the left

00:51:34is his thunder and lightning.

00:51:38Engel landed

00:51:38a nice right hand

00:51:39while we were chatting,

00:51:42talking heads here.

00:51:48Tough kid, Engel.

00:51:49Engel is keeping

00:51:51his gloves up high

00:51:52so a lot of the power

00:51:53is going off

00:51:53being absorbed

00:51:54in the gloves.

00:51:56Well, and you might

00:51:57have heard Nass

00:51:58bragging to the new trainer

00:51:59about his body shots

00:52:00as he went back

00:52:01after round six.

00:52:03He's sort of like a kid

00:52:04with a new toy

00:52:05with these body shots.

00:52:07Fascinated to see

00:52:08how easily he can hurt

00:52:09Engel to the rib cage.

00:52:13There's the old Nass.

00:52:16Wild, off balance,

00:52:17and effective.

00:52:26And the crowd

00:52:27cheers mightily

00:52:28and Nass smiles

00:52:29as Engel lands

00:52:30a right hand.

00:52:31It was a good right hand

00:52:32by Engel.

00:52:32All those body shots.

00:52:44When he doubles up

00:52:45with the left hand

00:52:46and comes back

00:52:47to the body,

00:52:48he is doing some damage

00:52:49to Paul Engel.

00:52:50Engel lands a left

00:52:51and another left.

00:52:53So Engel making

00:52:54a nice little comeback

00:52:55in this round

00:52:56after having been

00:52:57knocked down

00:52:57in round six.

00:52:58ready to Nass's nose

00:53:01once again.

00:53:09Now,

00:53:10the prince is using

00:53:11his rhythm.

00:53:13Goes one side with power,

00:53:14same side with power,

00:53:15and then come back

00:53:16with another shot

00:53:17with another hand.

00:53:19And Engel starting to tire

00:53:21as he landed a shot

00:53:22well below Mazz's waist

00:53:24on his hip.

00:53:28But he doesn't tire much,

00:53:30does he?

00:53:30Keeps those feet going.

00:53:32High intensity,

00:53:34rapid pace.

00:53:35He just can't throw

00:53:35as many punches

00:53:36as he expected to throw

00:53:37against Prince Nassim.

00:53:39When you throw

00:53:39that many body punches

00:53:40that the prince has thrown,

00:53:42you bound to lay in

00:53:43on those elbows

00:53:43a few times.

00:53:44By the time this fighter's over,

00:53:46he's gonna have

00:53:46some sore hands.

00:53:47He says

00:53:50that he broke

00:53:51his left hand

00:53:52as early as

00:53:53the third round

00:53:54against Wayne McCullough,

00:53:55though we know

00:53:56of no procedure

00:53:57or split

00:53:57that he wore

00:53:58after the fight.

00:54:07That's when you're in danger.

00:54:09You're getting underneath,

00:54:10well,

00:54:10you've got to close you up

00:54:11and then start driving in.

00:54:12Start driving in.

00:54:13Don't be gentle.

00:54:13Be rough.

00:54:14Don't be fucking gentle.

00:54:15This is a fucking man's game.

00:54:16Get in there

00:54:17and right there comes

00:54:18elbow,

00:54:18shoulder,

00:54:19the lock.

00:54:19Take his balance.

00:54:20Take his balance

00:54:21and step on him.

00:54:22Take his balance

00:54:22and step on him.

00:54:23His mouth is open

00:54:24like a train.

00:54:24He's only trying

00:54:25in but he's just...

00:54:25Watch him, watch him.

00:54:26He's getting frustrated

00:54:27to block it.

00:54:28I'm telling you,

00:54:28you're frustrating

00:54:29because he can't

00:54:29hit you.

00:54:29He's trying to put

00:54:30the bombs on.

00:54:31Now he's trying

00:54:31to just flick off

00:54:32and he's trying

00:54:32to measure you up.

00:54:33Just keep that head

00:54:34moving.

00:54:34Keep fainting him off

00:54:35and draining.

00:54:36Start telling...

00:54:36Take a hand to scoop

00:54:37and do it right

00:54:37to the middle

00:54:38and he's gonna go down.

00:54:39Okay.

00:54:39Big gap he's giving

00:54:40because you're not

00:54:41operating inside.

00:54:42You're doing everything

00:54:43with outside.

00:54:45You're so fucking strong

00:54:46that you're twisting

00:54:47him around

00:54:47but you're not doing

00:54:48the clean.

00:54:50You heard from

00:54:52Engel's corner.

00:54:53They're very excited.

00:54:54That was probably

00:54:55Engel's first round

00:54:57and you heard

00:54:58Emmanuel Lewis

00:54:59in the prince's corner

00:55:01saying you've got to

00:55:02stand there closer

00:55:03and you've got him

00:55:04which is just what he did.

00:55:07Yeah, if you're

00:55:08a ringside judge

00:55:08and you were looking

00:55:09hard for a round

00:55:10to give to Engel,

00:55:10round seven would

00:55:11probably have been

00:55:12your choice.

00:55:13Punched at numbers,

00:55:14Hamad landed 26 of 64,

00:55:16Engel 16 of 61.

00:55:18So at least

00:55:19he was in the round.

00:55:25Emmanuel Stewart

00:55:26and Prince Nassim

00:55:28both claim

00:55:29that they have no plans

00:55:30to do any future

00:55:31business together

00:55:32but here's Emmanuel

00:55:34in the corner tonight.

00:55:35Let's see what happens

00:55:36down the road.

00:55:37Naz is pretty good friends

00:55:38with heavyweight champion

00:55:39Lennox Lewis

00:55:40and says that he spoke

00:55:41to Lewis just three days

00:55:43ago as he got ready

00:55:44for this fight.

00:55:51Engel couch

00:55:52with Prince napping

00:55:53a little bit.

00:55:55That's what happened

00:55:56in your corner

00:55:57tells you to get in

00:55:58and go straight punches,

00:55:59get a little closer.

00:56:00You start thinking

00:56:01about all of this foolishness

00:56:02and you find yourself

00:56:03waiting for something.

00:56:06You can hit yourself.

00:56:07Let it happen

00:56:07in the floor thing.

00:56:09Prince Nassim produced

00:56:10two eighth round knockouts

00:56:11in his career.

00:56:12He knocked out both

00:56:13Steve Robinson

00:56:13and Tom Newboden Johnson

00:56:15in round eight.

00:56:16He had an 11th round

00:56:18knockout of Manuel Medina

00:56:19back in 1996.

00:56:20Those are the only

00:56:21three knockouts

00:56:22which have come

00:56:22this late in about.

00:56:23And now Joe Cortez

00:56:27stopped the action

00:56:28to allow Engel

00:56:31to recover

00:56:32from low blows.

00:56:33Okay.

00:56:35I think it was

00:56:36the mouthpiece.

00:56:36Oh, that's it.

00:56:37The mouthpiece.

00:56:38Okay, excuse me.

00:56:40Prince's mouthpiece

00:56:41replaced.

00:56:43You see,

00:56:44when a corner man

00:56:44tell you to do something,

00:56:45sometimes you got to

00:56:46stop what you were doing

00:56:47and wait

00:56:48and look for it.

00:56:51You got to be careful

00:56:52how you say it.

00:56:52It's not what you say,

00:56:53but how you say it.

00:57:06Judging from the look

00:57:07on his face

00:57:07between rounds,

00:57:08I'm not sure Engel

00:57:09felt as encouraged

00:57:10as his corner did

00:57:11by the events

00:57:12of round seven.

00:57:14Well, that's the job

00:57:15on the corner

00:57:15is to make you feel

00:57:17like you're winning

00:57:17the fight.

00:57:18You can lose every round

00:57:19but the corner said,

00:57:20boy, you're doing great.

00:57:21Something can happen.

00:57:24Did Dick Sadler

00:57:24used to do that for you?

00:57:26No, I didn't go

00:57:27many rounds.

00:57:29Engel's the kind of kid

00:57:30who would start a fight

00:57:31in an empty room.

00:57:33He really wants

00:57:34to try to do it,

00:57:35but it's very hard

00:57:36to do what you'd like

00:57:37to do against a fighter

00:57:39of Nassim's style,

00:57:41power, and quickness.

00:57:42Yeah, he really wants

00:57:43to fight.

00:57:49Good right hand by hand.

00:57:53Nass slowing down

00:57:54a little bit

00:57:55and the numbers say so.

00:58:23And why are there

00:58:24so few black faces

00:58:25on the track

00:58:25or in the stands?

00:58:27Also, an investigation

00:58:28into the billion-dollar business

00:58:29of counterfeit golf clubs.

00:58:31Only a billion?

00:58:32Plus a look at pitcher

00:58:33David Cohn

00:58:34quickly developing

00:58:35into one of baseball's

00:58:36most outspoken citizens.

00:58:38Real sports

00:58:39where nothing

00:58:40is out of bounds.

00:58:41Yeah, because it follows him.

00:58:46He doesn't know

00:58:47how to have a jab

00:58:47when it comes from a southpaw.

00:58:49Uh-huh.

00:58:49It's different if he was

00:58:50picking it and returning,

00:58:51but he doesn't do anything.

00:58:51Yeah, baby.

00:58:52He's confused.

00:58:53Just keep playing with it

00:58:53with the jab.

00:58:54He just started it, please.

00:58:56Ahmed has found something

00:58:57with the body punch.

00:59:00The only way to go

00:59:01when a fighter

00:59:02is protecting his head

00:59:04that way.

00:59:05But right after that punch,

00:59:07Ahmed lost his mouthpiece.

00:59:09And if you were listening,

00:59:11you noticed that

00:59:12the, uh,

00:59:13the gag order is off

00:59:15for Emanuel Stewart,

00:59:16who is now talking

00:59:17a blue streak

00:59:18to Prince Nassim Ahmed.

00:59:19He tried his best to be quiet.

00:59:22Well, but the most

00:59:24fascinating thing

00:59:25about this is

00:59:26is that he's not

00:59:27getting paid for this.

00:59:29Stewart is the kind of guy

00:59:31who would go and do a round

00:59:32for someone for free

00:59:33all the time.

00:59:34Yeah, but...

00:59:35Like Angelo Dundee.

00:59:35They love this.

00:59:37A couple of fighters

00:59:38who were paying him

00:59:39a lot of money

00:59:40decided they didn't want

00:59:41to pay him all

00:59:41that money anymore.

00:59:44There are many

00:59:44who believe

00:59:45Emanuel Stewart

00:59:46is the best trainer

00:59:47in boxing.

00:59:48There are at least

00:59:48as many who believe

00:59:49he is the best self-promoter

00:59:51among trainers.

00:59:53All of the above.

00:59:56Angelo busier

00:59:57and busier now

00:59:58as we get into

00:59:59the later rounds.

01:00:01Nassim hot-shotting,

01:00:03but slowing

01:00:04his own pace.

01:00:05Well, he's having

01:00:06some problems

01:00:06with his bleeding.

01:00:08A lot of the...

01:00:09He has to pay the price

01:00:11for all of that

01:00:11body hunting early on.

01:00:15And the decision victory

01:00:17over McCullough

01:00:18rubbed a little

01:00:19of the bloom

01:00:20off of Nassim Hamed's road.

01:00:23What would two straight

01:00:24group-going performances do?

01:00:27Oh, good left hand

01:00:29by Engel.

01:00:38Engel still wobbling

01:00:39a little bit

01:00:40with the left hand.

01:00:41Body shot from the head.

01:00:44Prince Nassim

01:00:45a little bit more active,

01:00:47but not so intense

01:00:49that he seems to indicate

01:00:50he's desperately

01:00:51trying to finish.

01:00:53Surely he knows

01:00:53he's well ahead

01:00:54in the back.

01:00:56He is so on

01:00:56body punching this time.

01:00:58Isn't he, though?

01:00:59Yes.

01:01:00And Cortez is doing

01:01:01a great job

01:01:02of forcing this fight

01:01:03and staying out

01:01:04of the way.

01:01:06Cortez is a terrific

01:01:07referee.

01:01:08I totally agree

01:01:08with you about that.

01:01:10He handled

01:01:11the Nassim McCullough

01:01:12fight in Atlantic City

01:01:13as well.

01:01:14Folks,

01:01:16a fight breaking

01:01:17out here.

01:01:20Nassim's face

01:01:21is starting to look

01:01:23like a fighter.

01:01:24Like a fighter, yeah.

01:01:29Now, for the first time,

01:01:31we see footwork

01:01:31by Nassim.

01:01:34There's nothing wrong

01:01:35with moving

01:01:35out of the way.

01:01:36Let's remember

01:01:37that at the start

01:01:38of this round

01:01:39that Emmanuel Stewart

01:01:41told him to stand

01:01:42in there and go.

01:01:45All of a sudden,

01:01:46the prince has decided,

01:01:47wait, let me get

01:01:48out of here.

01:01:50Because look what

01:01:51happened when I stood

01:01:52in there.

01:01:52He's got a bloody nose

01:01:53and a bloody neck.

01:01:54When you start

01:01:55passing blood

01:01:56out of your mouth

01:01:56and nose like that,

01:01:57you have a problem

01:01:58bleeding, I mean,

01:01:59breathing.

01:02:00And that's what

01:02:00is happening now.

01:02:01And he's not used

01:02:03to it.

01:02:03He's never been caught.

01:02:04So he's not

01:02:06particularly accustomed

01:02:07to tasting

01:02:08or seeing his own blood.

01:02:09It's a new experience

01:02:10for him.

01:02:11And Engel celebrates

01:02:12the appearance

01:02:13of the blood.

01:02:13And Hamid shook

01:02:15his head

01:02:15saying to good rounds.

01:02:17Everything is okay,

01:02:18okay?

01:02:19Don't worry about it.

01:02:19Man, this is when

01:02:21the chatter should

01:02:22stop in the corner.

01:02:23Man, I thought

01:02:23you were going to

01:02:24roll the...

01:02:24He's going to say

01:02:25we lost that round.

01:02:26Yeah.

01:02:26We lost that round,

01:02:27okay?

01:02:27Okay.

01:02:28You got to go

01:02:29through the middle.

01:02:29You got a wide open

01:02:30gap.

01:02:31Shoot that hard left

01:02:31hand through the middle,

01:02:32man.

01:02:33The outside force

01:02:34is all down here

01:02:34and he's catching

01:02:35him.

01:02:35Yeah.

01:02:36And he's there.

01:02:36He's coming back

01:02:37because you see

01:02:38your time

01:02:38when you finish up.

01:02:39You're hung out.

01:02:40You're making him

01:02:40work through the middle.

01:02:41You got a road,

01:02:42man.

01:02:42You get set it

01:02:44for right.

01:02:45Look now.

01:02:45Right between this...

01:02:46It's going to be dangerous

01:02:52for the first 30 seconds

01:02:53now.

01:02:54Each round,

01:02:55each 30 seconds,

01:02:56stand off,

01:02:56draw him off

01:02:57until he starts

01:02:58drawing down a bit.

01:02:59Don't start putting it on.

01:03:00When you're putting it on

01:03:01now,

01:03:01you've got to tell

01:03:02you've never done it.

01:03:04Keep that pressure

01:03:04there.

01:03:05Keep that fucking

01:03:06pressure there, Paul.

01:03:07Let's go!

01:03:09Trainer telling

01:03:10Engel,

01:03:11give it a little bit

01:03:12of time.

01:03:13Don't come right out

01:03:14as the round goes on.

01:03:16Put more pressure on.

01:03:20Harold,

01:03:20how do you have it

01:03:20scored through nine?

01:03:2288, 81,

01:03:23seven routes to two.

01:03:24Prince Nassim Ahmed.

01:03:25He's got a seven-point lead,

01:03:26Jim.

01:03:27Paul Engel's got to do

01:03:27something dramatic

01:03:28in the last three rounds.

01:03:29Watch the Prince's right,

01:03:30Jim.

01:03:31Joe Cortez can't make

01:03:31him to smile.

01:03:32If it's a back angle,

01:03:33you're not allowed

01:03:33to back end the guy.

01:03:34Watch the light hits

01:03:35that bell goes

01:03:35Dingle in the league.

01:03:36You can't hit him

01:03:37after the first thing

01:03:38in the league.

01:03:39For the first time

01:03:39in the fight,

01:03:40Engel,

01:03:40by CompuBox numbers,

01:03:42had the edge

01:03:42in power shots

01:03:43in round number nine.

01:03:45So he's won

01:03:46at least a couple

01:03:47of rounds,

01:03:47or so it would appear.

01:03:48How close are

01:03:49the judges' scorecards?

01:03:50Sometimes closer

01:03:51than Harold's.

01:03:55Two judges

01:03:55from England tonight,

01:03:57one from Florida.

01:03:59Florida, I should say,

01:04:00in the USA.

01:04:02A lot of this

01:04:03has to do

01:04:04with the wrong guys

01:04:04in your corner

01:04:05talking too much.

01:04:07Well, you heard

01:04:07Emmanuel Stewart say,

01:04:09fire the left-hand shot

01:04:10straight up the middle,

01:04:11and Prince Nassim

01:04:12just tried.

01:04:13Two straight left hands

01:04:14up the middle.

01:04:15All right,

01:04:15and Engel's,

01:04:16Engel's trainer,

01:04:18Steve Pollard said,

01:04:20it's gonna be dangerous

01:04:21as you go in.

01:04:23He knows that

01:04:24this is the most

01:04:25dangerous time

01:04:26when you're trying

01:04:27to put the pressure

01:04:27at the end of a fight

01:04:29on a puncher.

01:04:31Well, amazingly,

01:04:32Pollard is on record

01:04:33before the fighters

01:04:34having said,

01:04:35it's undoubting

01:04:37that if Nassim

01:04:38catches my man

01:04:39with a clean shot,

01:04:39my guy's going down.

01:04:41I want him

01:04:42to know that.

01:04:47I can tell you this.

01:04:49The corners over there

01:04:50has confused

01:04:51this guy

01:04:52an awful lot.

01:04:54You mean the Prince?

01:04:55Yeah,

01:04:55he's been awfully

01:04:56confused tonight,

01:04:57standing around

01:04:58trying to do

01:04:58what they told him

01:04:59to do.

01:05:00There are a lot

01:05:01of Yorks in the crowd

01:05:02rooting for Paul Engel,

01:05:04rooting against

01:05:05Prince Nassim,

01:05:06and Engel's

01:05:07having his moments

01:05:08once again

01:05:08in round number 10.

01:05:20Engel's like

01:05:21Prince Nassim

01:05:22used to be

01:05:22with Brendan Engel

01:05:23in the sense

01:05:24that he's listened

01:05:24to the same trainer

01:05:25his whole professional career.

01:05:27The only voice

01:05:28he's ever heard

01:05:29in the corner

01:05:29is Steve Collard.

01:05:33Ralph Dunn,

01:05:34Nassim almost went down.

01:05:37He was off balance

01:05:38as is so frequently

01:05:39the case.

01:05:39Engel is landing

01:05:40his right-hand shot

01:05:42fairly freely now

01:05:44as he comes back

01:05:45in the latter stages

01:05:47of the fight.

01:05:48Prince has never been

01:05:49in this kind of a war.

01:05:55Not over a distance,

01:05:56of course,

01:05:57his fight with Kelly

01:05:57was a short,

01:05:59intense war.

01:06:02He's got one solid pilot

01:06:04in front of him

01:06:05that ground engel.

01:06:09It'll be ruled a slip,

01:06:11and round 10

01:06:13comes to a close.

01:06:14And for showmanship

01:06:16effect,

01:06:17Nassim flips up,

01:06:18or kips up,

01:06:19I should say,

01:06:20from the mat.

01:06:21An old gymnastics move.

01:06:24And Cortez now allows

01:06:25the round to come

01:06:26to a close.

01:06:31Another man is going

01:06:32to the prince's corner.

01:06:34His father had some

01:06:35advice for him.

01:06:36He's looking for the man.

01:06:37You've got to see what's happening.

01:06:38After you finish up

01:06:39the punches,

01:06:40you're going to do this.

01:06:41That's what he's going to take.

01:06:42You know what I'm saying?

01:06:43No shots, baby.

01:06:43After you finish your punches,

01:06:45you're laying out,

01:06:46okay, you're tying you.

01:06:47If you just work

01:06:48your right jab,

01:06:49you can win the fight.

01:06:50You don't have to just

01:06:51work the jab,

01:06:52you can straighten up

01:06:53hands between the middle

01:06:54club.

01:06:54Just work the jab,

01:06:56jab, jab, jab.

01:06:56You're going to do this.

01:07:00Work the right jab.

01:07:02The prince getting

01:07:03a little tired.

01:07:04Catches that big right hand,

01:07:06shook him,

01:07:07turned his head

01:07:0890 degrees.

01:07:09Or more.

01:07:11Round 10,

01:07:12a big round

01:07:13for Paul Engle,

01:07:15who by CompuBox numbers

01:07:16landed 26 of 68,

01:07:19to 16 of 51

01:07:20for the prince

01:07:20and had a 23 to 9

01:07:21edge in power shot.

01:07:23So the momentum

01:07:23of the bout

01:07:24belongs to the underdog,

01:07:26Paul Engle,

01:07:27as we go into

01:07:28the championship round,

01:07:2911 and 12.

01:07:34And it looks as though

01:07:36the prince has decided

01:07:38to freeze the ball.

01:07:40Asim's insurance,

01:07:41he has scored two

01:07:42knockdowns in the bout

01:07:44against Engle.

01:07:46He's the better boxer,

01:07:47so he should win this fight.

01:07:49And if a knockout

01:07:50presented itself,

01:07:51let it happen.

01:07:52Here's the third knockdown.

01:07:55And Pollard told Engle

01:07:56it would be dangerous.

01:08:03And Delcote stops it.

01:08:05Second, 11th round knockout

01:08:09of Prince Nassim's career.

01:08:12The straight left-hand shot

01:08:13of the middle.

01:08:14Too much for Paul Engle

01:08:16in round 11.

01:08:17Way to go.

01:08:18The referee was once again

01:08:20just right on the money.

01:08:21We give the prince credit.

01:08:24Arguably one of his toughest fights.

01:08:27Pulled it together,

01:08:27did the right thing at the end,

01:08:29and still had enough

01:08:30to knock out an overeager opponent.

01:08:32Not before a couple

01:08:35of anxious moments.

01:08:36A couple of rousing celebrations

01:08:38for the Engle Rooters

01:08:40and the crowd.

01:08:42And a longer fight

01:08:43than Nass expected

01:08:44when he told us yesterday,

01:08:46don't blink.

01:08:47But all in all,

01:08:48the power's still there.

01:08:49He knocked Engle down

01:08:50three times,

01:08:52including the last one

01:08:53that sealed the issue.

01:08:56Let's take another look

01:08:58at the knockout, George,

01:08:59on a perfect left-hand shot.

01:09:01Yeah, it was all about

01:09:02moving around.

01:09:03He got his legs together.

01:09:04This guy walked right into it.

01:09:07Yep.

01:09:08I'd like to have seen

01:09:09that a lot earlier.

01:09:10When his legs were moving,

01:09:11he's in charge.

01:09:13Bounce to the left,

01:09:14then throw.

01:09:16Engle, as you've told us

01:09:18so many times,

01:09:19was following a puncher

01:09:20in those last few rounds.

01:09:21Yeah, you gotta make sure

01:09:22that you keep your chin

01:09:24tucked down,

01:09:25but he hit him

01:09:25on top of the head anyway.

01:09:28So Prince Nassim's

01:09:29vaunted power

01:09:30wins the bout for him

01:09:33as referee Joe Cortez

01:09:35decides that Paul Engle

01:09:36is not safe

01:09:38continuing

01:09:39in the 11th round.

01:09:41He beat the count,

01:09:42but he was still wobbling,

01:09:44and it was the third time

01:09:45in the bout

01:09:45that he'd been down.

01:09:47And he kind of

01:09:47fumbled off the ropes.

01:09:48I think that's what

01:09:49made the difference

01:09:49when he was getting up.

01:09:51His hands slid a little

01:09:52bit off the ropes,

01:09:53and that caused the referee

01:09:53to have more concern.

01:09:55Nassim Hamed

01:09:56seemingly struggling

01:09:58to adapt to a new style,

01:10:00new voices in the corner,

01:10:01and new instructions.

01:10:03Nevertheless,

01:10:05although tasting

01:10:06his own blood,

01:10:07pulls it out.

01:10:09And a new knockout streak

01:10:11has begun.

01:10:16Proud back their money's worth.

01:10:18Here's Michael Buffer.

01:10:19And we must indeed

01:10:21give our respects

01:10:23to the man

01:10:23who will not

01:10:24have his hand

01:10:25raised first.

01:10:26A round of applause

01:10:27for this challenger

01:10:28from Scarborough

01:10:30who came here tonight

01:10:31and gave it his awe,

01:10:33Paul Engle.

01:10:39Referee Joe Cortez

01:10:41following the knockdown

01:10:43has to call a halt

01:10:44to the bout.

01:10:45The official time,

01:10:4645 seconds

01:10:48of round number 11,

01:10:50the winner,

01:10:51and still

01:10:52the undefeated

01:10:54WBO

01:10:55coverweight champion

01:10:56of the world,

01:10:58Prince

01:10:59Vim Hammond.

01:11:03Final punch stat numbers

01:11:20from CompuBox. The spirited

01:11:22late round comeback for Engel

01:11:24reducing somewhat more

01:11:26even numbers than would have been the case

01:11:28in the middle rounds, but Nassim

01:11:30nearly doubling Engel's

01:11:32total of landed punches

01:11:33and throwing 110 more

01:11:36punches than the challenger and landing

01:11:38at nearly 40% despite

01:11:40throwing very few jabs,

01:11:42almost all power punches.

01:11:44Well, there you have it,

01:11:46369 power punches. He could throw more

01:11:48jabs than I might have contended would be

01:11:50the case, and

01:11:52many more power punches landed,

01:11:5479 of them in fact, than was the

01:11:56case for Paul Engel.

01:11:58Scorecards had Nassim ahead

01:12:0098-90, 98-91,

01:12:02and 98-91, so he had the bout

01:12:04won had it gone the distance.

01:12:08And now let's go to Larry Merchant

01:12:10with Prince Nassim.

01:12:12Congratulations, Prince.

01:12:14This fight seemed one-sided

01:12:16on the one hand, and a little bit

01:12:18harder work than you might have expected

01:12:20on the other.

01:12:21Yeah, I must admit,

01:12:22Larry, it was harder work than I expected,

01:12:24but to tell you the honest truth,

01:12:26when it came to run about round six,

01:12:28I mean, I really wanted to take him out

01:12:30early, and I thought that I could.

01:12:32And the second round, I nearly had the job done,

01:12:34but, you know,

01:12:36that's how God plans it, that's how God plans it.

01:12:38The sixth round, I hurt my hand bad,

01:12:40I left down, the one that I keep getting the pain

01:12:42with before, I thought it was all right before the fight,

01:12:44which it was.

01:12:45You say you re-injured the left hand,

01:12:48how did it happen?

01:12:50I think I hit him with a straight left,

01:12:51I ran about exactly the same shot that I took him out with,

01:12:55and that same shot in the sixth round hurt me really bad,

01:12:57so I had to use one hand for quite a bit,

01:12:59but I still kept throwing it, but it was hurting me,

01:13:01it was hurting, but you know I've got a heart of a lion,

01:13:03Larry.

01:13:04You were trying some new things,

01:13:07you were hearing new voices in your corner tonight,

01:13:09can you assess how all of that went?

01:13:13You were trying to be more flat-footed at times,

01:13:15you were moving at times,

01:13:16you were blending the two styles,

01:13:18what is your impression?

01:13:19It went brilliant, I think, I enjoyed it in there,

01:13:21it was a great workout,

01:13:22and I took some great advice in the corner,

01:13:24I was really comfortable in my corner,

01:13:26with Oscar Suarez and Emmanuel,

01:13:29it was great, I enjoyed it,

01:13:31but there's still quite a few things I had to learn,

01:13:33and you know, it's my first time I train,

01:13:35only two and a half months,

01:13:36so I've got to get used to exactly training,

01:13:39how we want to just go about everything in training,

01:13:43because the first time I've been training new techniques,

01:13:46you know, and I'm trying them out.

01:13:47But do you want to wind up having to fight an orthodox fight,

01:13:51rather than the unorthodox style,

01:13:53which results in you getting bloody noses,

01:13:56and swollen eyes,

01:13:57and blood all over your face?

01:13:59As long as you've got a heart of a champion,

01:14:01a heart of a lion,

01:14:01and you come through them,

01:14:03it don't really matter.

01:14:04I mean, anything could happen,

01:14:06as long as at the end of the day I come through,

01:14:07I come through,

01:14:08and I thank God, you know,

01:14:08for giving me the strength to take him out in the 11th round.

01:14:11People have got to realize,

01:14:12fighters have got to realize,

01:14:13that I can take you out at any round.

01:14:15Let's go through three of the rounds,

01:14:17and the knockdowns in the first round.

01:14:19You tell us what happened then.

01:14:21Were you surprised that he went down that quickly?

01:14:24No, I mean, I caught him with a body shot,

01:14:25we worked on that shot,

01:14:27Oscar taught me quite a few things with that shot,

01:14:30and it came through.

01:14:31I knew that the body was hurting him,

01:14:34and I've been working to the body, you know.

01:14:36For this, probably you haven't seen me work to the body as much as this,

01:14:39and I've been working great to the body with Oscar and new techniques,

01:14:42and the last knockdown was a wicked knockdown.

01:14:44It just, it just,

01:14:45timber,

01:14:46it just hit him in timber.

01:14:48You said that your left hand was hurting you,

01:14:52that you think you may have broken it,

01:14:54yet you stopped him with the left hand.

01:14:56That's what I'm saying.

01:14:57Don't matter what I've got,

01:14:59don't matter what's hurting me,

01:15:00at the end of the day,

01:15:01I've got the heart of a lion,

01:15:02I've got the belief in God,

01:15:03and I go out there,

01:15:04and I'll hit you with the hand that's hurting me.

01:15:05I don't really care.

01:15:06It comes,

01:15:07even the 11th round,

01:15:08it goes to 11th round,

01:15:09I still take you out.

01:15:10I still win.

01:15:11Who is next on your hit list?

01:15:14Well, you know that I want to unify,

01:15:16I want to become the undisputed featherweight champion in the world,

01:15:18because I believe that I am.

01:15:19I'm the best featherweight in the world,

01:15:21you know?

01:15:22So, I want to box a world champion with another belt,

01:15:24so I can get another belt.

01:15:25Maybe the WBC,

01:15:26the IBF,

01:15:27or the BA,

01:15:28any of them,

01:15:28because I know I'm going to take them out.

01:15:30Thank you very much, Prince,

01:15:31and again, congratulations.

01:15:32You're more than welcome.

01:15:34Jim?

01:15:3732-0.

01:15:38Now the record for Prince Nassim with 29 knockouts.

01:15:42He solidifies his status as the number one featherweight in the sport

01:15:46and looks ahead to what we hope will be a future

01:15:49fighting against the other top featherweights.

01:15:53Well, George,

01:15:54you heard Prince Nassim say that he's happy with his new corner.

01:15:59I don't think you're so sure it was such a good thing.

01:16:01Not at all.

01:16:02You know,

01:16:02that one minute that you have is most of all is to rest and refresh yourself.

01:16:07To me,

01:16:07it resembled,

01:16:08and I've been caught up between a Ford and a Chevrolet dealership,

01:16:11and both trying to sell me a used car at the same time,

01:16:15that's what his corner resembled tonight.

01:16:16That's going to have to be cleaned up if you want to move on with success.

01:16:19Well,

01:16:20whether coincidence or a legitimate product of Emanuel Stewart's instructions,

01:16:26Stewart called for straight left hands.

01:16:28He knocked the guy out with a straight left hand.

01:16:30Now,

01:16:31if Emanuel were to move in and become a fixture in the future,

01:16:34you know Emanuel well,

01:16:35would it be his instinct to try to change the fighter,

01:16:39or would he leave him alone?

01:16:40In the end,

01:16:41the Prince,

01:16:41he's got this knockout just like he's been getting all other knockouts.

01:16:45It didn't seem like the addition of these guys mounted to much anything.

01:16:48He was able to land a few body punches here and there,

01:16:51something new,

01:16:51but in the end,

01:16:52he won this thing for himself the old way that he's been doing it all along.

01:16:56So,

01:16:56he needs those guys for a little input,

01:16:58but too much.

01:16:58Yeah.

01:16:59In the corner.

01:16:59It's not good.

01:17:00All right.

01:17:01Well,

01:17:01we'll see how all of that continues to play out over the future upstairs to

01:17:05rejoin us.

01:17:06Now,

01:17:06Larry merchant and Larry,

01:17:07the Prince told us yesterday that if he won this fight,

01:17:10it would be his goal to go out and seek fights against the three title holders

01:17:15from the more notorious governing organizations and become that rarest of

01:17:19commodities,

01:17:20a unified titleist in his weight class.

01:17:23Shall we believe him?

01:17:24I think we can believe him for a couple of reasons.

01:17:28One is,

01:17:29it is a noble ambition these days to want to do that,

01:17:31to want to fight anyone,

01:17:32anywhere,

01:17:33anytime.

01:17:34And he has shown or said he wanted to do that in the past.

01:17:38At the same time,

01:17:39some cynics,

01:17:40and there are cynics in this game might say,

01:17:43well,

01:17:43why don't you fight some of the other guys who aren't champions?

01:17:46Now,

01:17:46Espinosa here is the only one of the top featherweights or the ones that are

01:17:50regarded as the most dangerous featherweights,

01:17:53junior or senior.

01:17:54to have a belt.

01:17:56But Barrera is there,

01:17:57Morales is there,

01:17:59and Marquez,

01:18:00a newcomer who is highly regarded,

01:18:02is also there.

01:18:03And after seeing this fight tonight against the relatively unknown,

01:18:07tough,

01:18:08but limited angle,

01:18:09you wonder,

01:18:10how would he do against those kind of guys?

01:18:12But at the end of the day,

01:18:13what we find out also is that beneath the glitter and the bombast,

01:18:18there is a fighter from Sheffield,

01:18:21New Yorkshire,

01:18:23England.

01:18:23A lot of potential opponents for Prince Nassim Hamed,

01:18:26but if the Mexican,

01:18:28Eric Morales continues to progress the way he has,

01:18:32you have to suspect that somewhere down the road,

01:18:34that's the defining fight.

01:18:36The Oscar De La Hoya versus Felix Trinidad,

01:18:39if you will,

01:18:40of the featherweight division.

01:18:41We'll wait and see,

01:18:42and we'll hope for such combustion.

01:18:45We'll have a final word on what happened here in the ring in Manchester in just a moment.

01:18:48Right now,

01:18:49let's look at just a moment.

01:18:50Right now,

01:18:50let's look ahead.

01:18:51Some upcoming programs here on HBO.

01:18:54Next Saturday on HBO,

01:18:57John Cusack is taking the law into his own hands.

01:19:01You can burn it.

01:19:02Until John Goodman is forced to rein him in.

01:19:08By HBO Boxing After Dark at 11.

01:19:11Next Saturday on HBO.

01:19:15World Championship Boxing returns in May

01:19:18when Oscar De La Hoya,

01:19:19coming off his split decision victory against Ike Quartey,

01:19:21defends his welterweight title versus

01:19:23veteran Oba Carr,

01:19:25also featured super featherweight champion Floyd Mayweather against Goya Vargas.

01:19:28Then one week later on the 29th,

01:19:30boxing's other premier welterweight champion,

01:19:32Felix Trinidad,

01:19:33last seen in this decisive and dominating victory over Bunnell Whitaker,

01:19:37meets Vincent Petway.

01:19:38Premiering Tuesday,

01:19:39April 20,

01:19:40we'll bring you the most recent edition of Real Sports with Brian Gumbel.

01:19:42Some of the stories to be featured.

01:19:44NASCAR.

01:19:45If the numbers say it's the most popular spectator sport in the United States,

01:19:48then why are there so few blacks on the tracks or in the stands?

01:19:52Also,

01:19:53an investigation into the billion-dollar-plus business of counterfeit golf clubs.

01:19:58Plus,

01:19:58a look at pitcher David Cohn,

01:20:00quickly developing into one of baseball's most outspoken citizens.

01:20:03Vince Nassim Ahmed maintained his perfect record in the featherweight division,

01:20:11a 30-second consecutive victory,

01:20:13the 29th by knockout.

01:20:14He weathered some difficulties late in the fight

01:20:17to knock Paul Engel down for the third and last time

01:20:20and score the KO in the 11th round.

01:20:23Coming up immediately following tonight's coverage of world championship boxing,

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01:20:30And now for Larry Merchant, George Foreman, and Harold Netteman,

01:20:33I'm Jim Lafley saying so long from Manchester, England.

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