Former world featherweight boxing champion Naseem Hamed was jailed on Friday for 15 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving.
The former WBO champ was sentenced at the city’s Crown Court by Judge Alan Goldsack, who also banned the 32-year-old Hamed from driving for four years.
A man suffered a broken leg and two broken arms when Hamed’s Mercedes crashed into two other vehicles on the outskirts of Sheffield, northern England, in April 2005.
The flamboyant Hamed, who boxed as ”Prince Naseem”, last fought in May 2002 when he was booed out of the ring after a contentious decision over Spain’s Manuel Calvo in London. Hamed lost to Marco Antonio Barrera in Las Vegas in 2002, his first defeat in 37 fights. — Sapa-AP