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Article: BOXING: Naz to make short work of it.(Sports)
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- Sports Argus (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2002
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Naseem Hamed intends to turn back the clock as he aims to make the second coming just as successful as his first.
The Sheffield star returns to the ring after a 13-month absence at London Arena tonight with an IBO featherweight title meeting with Spain's Manuel Calvo.
Hamed is now a 28-year-old father of two.
But he says the extra years have enabled him to harness his youthful exuberance of old with a new-found maturity which will make him better than ever.
He said: 'You are going to see a guy who is 28 but boxes like he is 21 ...