Thread: Anybody see the Nigel Benn special on Ringside??

Nigel is a god...spoke honestly about his career....fair play Nigel


job biscuit (Benn era was very special)!!!!!


eh eh!!!

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by tysonesque

Nigel Benn was one of the most exciting and honest fighters I've ever seen. The guy would fight anyone, anywhere, anytime and he didn't fuck about.

When the McClellan fight was made it was the most excited I have ever been about a fight. I knew that was going to be dynamite and it didn't disappoint. So tragic that it cost McClellan so much.

Yes the Benn v McClellan fight was the only fight where I was jumping around for the whole of the fight. It was a proper Rocky 4 movie where he came back to stop Gerald.

It was incredible fight from start to finish. The US commentators said it was like a Hollywood script and they weren't wrong. It was the kind of fight that summed up Benn as a fighter.

I really miss the guy to be honest. His fights rarely disappointed. Imagine him fighting someone like Froch, what a great fight that would be!

Originally Posted by BIG H

He was very honest about pretty much everything. Some of the key things he said, which were very interesting were:

Michael Watson was in a differerent League to himself and Eubank
He said that he did not think he would've beaten Joe Calzaghe
He said that McClellan's punch power was incomparible to anybody else he ever fought (no real suprpise I guess)

I didn't see the Special but i've always kind of liked Nigel Benn, he was a fucking wild man in the ring. I felt with the right trainer/manager he could have gone a lot farther than he did.
As for Eubanks, that was one weird muther-fucker.

What a class act and honest guy. Really like how he propped Watson.