Naseem Hamed Vs. Wayne McCullough
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Naseem Hamed Vs. Wayne McCullough
Naseem Hamed vs. Wayne McCullough, billed as "Halloween Fright Night" was a professional boxing match contested on October 31, 1998 for the World Boxing Organization, WBO and Lineal champion, Lineal featherweight championship. Background In April 1998, WBO featherweight champion Naseem Hamed had defeated 3-division world champion Wilfredo Vázquez to both retain his WBO belt and become the new lineal champion of the featherweight champion. For his next fight, Hamed would return to the United States for the second time in his career, having made his American debut the previous year in December against Kevin Kelley (boxer), Kevin Kelley. Then-WBO super bantamweight champion Kennedy McKinney, with whom Hamed had originally agreed to face earlier in the year before instead taking the Vasquez fight, had emerged as a possible opponent for Hamed again, but was bypassed again in favor of Irish fighter Wayne McCullough. McCullough had captured a silver medal in the 1992 Olympics and had bec ...
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Hamed Vs McCullough
Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (): # (Arabic: ''ḥāmed'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises". # (Arabic: ''ḥamīd'') also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy". Given name Hamid * Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (born 1945), Iranian historian * Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (born 1988), Iranian futsal player * Hamid Ahmadieh (born 1953), Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist *Hamid Al Shaeri (born 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician *Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist *Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander *Hamid Berhili (born 1964), Moroccan boxer *Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist *Hamid Chitchian (born 1957), Iranian politician *Hamid Drake (born 1955), American ...
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