The Prince and the Flash: The Story of Naseem Hamed vs. Kevin Kelley - a podcast by HBO Boxing

Twenty years ago, an undefeated, power-punching British featherweight of Yemeni descent named “Prince” Naseem Hamed brought his show to America for the first time when he faced his toughest professional test, New Yorker Kevin Kelley, a.k.a. “The Flushing Flash,” at Madison Square Garden. The hype was off the charts. And the fight exceeded all hype.

In a special edition of the HBO Boxing Podcast, Eric Raskin speaks to numerous insiders who were connected to Hamed or Kelley or were inside the Garden that night and lets them tell the story of one of the wildest fights of the era, a brawl that shook up the way smaller fighters were perceived and the pay scale they were working under.

The text version of the oral history "The Prince and the Flash: The Story of Naseem Hamed vs. Kevin Kelley" is available at: fromthevault.hbo.com/hamedkelley

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