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Boxer Daniel Teasdale was hailed as the heir to the legendary Prince Naseem Hamed, but his promise never materialised into fame, fortune and films.<\/b><\/p>\n
“He’s better than Naz at the same age,” said trainer Brendan Ingle.<\/p>\n
Hamed had won his first world title aged 21. Teasdale was still a teenager.<\/p>\n
Ingle, from his gym in Sheffield, moulded the careers of a conveyor belt of world-beaters and title winners. He guided both of the fighters from childhood.<\/p>\n
Before super-middleweight Teasdale’s first professional bout, the Rotherham fighter had been featured in national newspapers, books and was being documented by photographers and film-makers.<\/p>\n
He won a succession of national titles, establishing himself as the next contender to emerge from the Ingle gym.<\/p>\n
Photographer Simon Roberts travelled to the Ingle gym in 1997 hoping to photograph Hamed.<\/p>\n
“Brendan said ‘don’t worry about Naz, start photographing that kid in the corner. He’s going to be bigger than Naz’. That was Daniel,” Roberts said.<\/p>\n
Roberts began to follow the young sensation, hoping to capture his rise on camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n