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| N'Dam it ALL! |
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| The moderator in WBO/Goldenboy negotiations |
Perhaps that's not giving Machiavelli enough credit. According to N'Dam's trainer, Mustapha Ouicher (who also trains Jean Marc Mormek), GB simply paid the WBO to make Quillin N'Dam's mandatory fighter whom he had to face by October 20th or lose the title. Quillin wasn't even on the top 5 contenders list at the time. Coincidentally, GB had booked the Barclay centre that evening for a big night of Brooklyn boxing. N'Dam was on vacation recovering from a gruelling fight with hard-nosed Ukranian Max Bursak and nursing a procedure he'd had on 6 of his teeth. Nevertheless, his former promoter, Sebastien Acaries, did a quick-fire deal with GB without submitting N'dam's medical paperwork to the WBO which could have afforded him extra time to recover and knowing Hassan wasn't in shape and would struggle to get a proper training camp together in time for the fight.
By the time the deal was signed, N'Dam had under a month to prepare for the fight. In a swashbuckling performance, N'dam suffered 6 knockdowns, due, in no small measure to a procedure he'd had his mouth a few weeks prior. On fight night, he needed 3 injections just to get him to comfortably bite down on a mouth guard. Look, I'm a Brit, and we love to accuse the French of making excuses and generally moaning about how the world is against them even though they only work 3 hours a day with 2 of those spent at lunch, BUT, teeth are sensitive and I needed 6 lbs of hydrochodone the last time I had a filling done. However many pieces of silver Acaries made from the fight, it was the last he made off N'dam's travails as the native Cameroonian has now signed with Gary Hyde.
N'dam scraped off the ring rust with a fight in Ireland against unheralded Anthony Fitzgerald in December. He is now fighting on Michael King's card at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on April 16th against Fulgencio Zuniga who has fought James DeGale, Tavoris Cloud, Lucian Bute and Kelly Pavlik. As 2004 Olympian for Cameroon and previously undefeated Middleweight champion. If Hassan wins convincingly on Wednesday at Barker's Hangar, it's time to start (last name pun I promise) giving N'dam.
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| Never speak tooth to Power |
By the time the deal was signed, N'Dam had under a month to prepare for the fight. In a swashbuckling performance, N'dam suffered 6 knockdowns, due, in no small measure to a procedure he'd had his mouth a few weeks prior. On fight night, he needed 3 injections just to get him to comfortably bite down on a mouth guard. Look, I'm a Brit, and we love to accuse the French of making excuses and generally moaning about how the world is against them even though they only work 3 hours a day with 2 of those spent at lunch, BUT, teeth are sensitive and I needed 6 lbs of hydrochodone the last time I had a filling done. However many pieces of silver Acaries made from the fight, it was the last he made off N'dam's travails as the native Cameroonian has now signed with Gary Hyde.
N'dam scraped off the ring rust with a fight in Ireland against unheralded Anthony Fitzgerald in December. He is now fighting on Michael King's card at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on April 16th against Fulgencio Zuniga who has fought James DeGale, Tavoris Cloud, Lucian Bute and Kelly Pavlik. As 2004 Olympian for Cameroon and previously undefeated Middleweight champion. If Hassan wins convincingly on Wednesday at Barker's Hangar, it's time to start (last name pun I promise) giving N'dam.
Here is an interview I did with Hassan on Monday. Sure it would be nice to embed it like a pro, but until we move to the new website, we will have to make do with Google Blogger's remedial coding. It's N'Dam shame is was it is. Ok that was the last one.
