Naz remains silent

Naseem Hamed's 30th birthday has come and gone without any word of his plans to fight on or retire. In fact, the former world featherweight champion's future is a mystery even to two of the men closest to him.

Brother Raith, his business manager, admitted: 'I don't know what he's going to do.' And Barry Hearn, Hamed's promoter, said: 'I hear he's back in training but there's nothing happening in the process for a real fight to be made.' Hearn's 'gut feeling' is that he will quit.