
Originally Posted by
navigator
Naseem Hamed's were great, but they were never that great.
I've never seen anything quite like it in all my years following and trawling through the many pages of this sport's annals. It was completely unorthodox and completely inspired. Subtly acted, not overplayed, note-perfect and tone-perfect, bordering on the excellence of the great physical comedians. It was self-referential and self-mocking; his selection of Crazy should have been incongruous, but instead constituted the ultimate edgy rock 'n' roll in-joke, in context of today's wimpily sensitive milieu, with the mad genius alone on his throne, mouthing the lyrics to nobody but himself, making majesty and magnificence out of the material's innate mournfulness.
Contrasted with Wilder's entrance, which was a tad tasteless and threatened to make the event a polemic it didn't need.