How Benn and Eubank got through some of their fights I'll never know..


In Benn-Eubank 1, Eubank suffered a split in his tongue almost an inch long and swallowed pints of blood during the fight, had his gut wrenched during the fight, and absorbed knockout punches to the chin and head from the most explosive puncher in the business. He found himself in a hospital bed, doubled up in pain with stitched tongue, punctured gut, dislocated jaw and terribly bruised ribs. There were also traces of blood in his urine for about a week.

Benn didn't have it quite so bad that night (despite the pain of losing), but had to just 3 hours and 15 mins to lose six and a half pounds before the weigh-in, he was doing shadow boxing in a steam room with two jumpers on and two coats and three pairs of jeans and couldn't even eat after weighing in (which was the day of the fight) because he was so fatigued, and his left eye was completely closed after the fight and the actual white of the eye was still bruised and red going into the new year (and he could never see as well out of that eye again).


In Eubank-Watson II, Eubank took a horrific one-sided beatdown from a man he claims had "superhuman strength and abnormal stamina" on the night, Watson had got himself hypnotised and really did look unbeatable that night, putting everything into every punch and keeping up the pace of a lightweight, Eubank had to be wheeled out of the arena in a wheelchair and couldn't speak - it took him over a month to recover.


But those are nothing to compare to the state Nigel Benn was in after the McClellan fight.

People don't realise that Benn himself collapsed on the way back to the locker room through exhaustion, then stayed in hospital with fractures to ribs, hands, nose and jaw, urinated blood for days, and had an x-ray that showed a shadow on the brain. He had to be lifted into baths for a while. He was fucked.