Quote Originally Posted by DD
Quote Originally Posted by razorblade
Great post, now all we need is summin similar from nigel benn
Some interesting stuff said from Benn...

He offered Herol Graham loads of money to fight him in 1989, but Graham refused because he was scared (Benn was 22-0 with 22 KO's at the time). He knew that he had to beat Graham to prove that he was the best Middleweight in Britain.

He was due to fight Michael Nunn after he became the first man to ever KO Robbie Sims, but then Toney beat Nunn in that huge upset and Bob Arum didn't want to match Toney and Benn at the time because he knew Toney would get battered (he was being battered by Nunn until the late lucky KO).

He was due to fight Michael Nunn in Las Vegas in a WBC/WBA unification clash in May 1994, but Nunn lost his 'warm-up' fight against Steve Little on a Nigel Benn undercard and that wrecked it.

He was due to fight his mandatory Michael Nunn in London in February 1995, but then Don King offered £100,000 more for Benn to fight McClellan. Benn knew that if he didn't fight McClellan, King would call him a coward in the press etc.

He was due to fight Chris Eubank for a third time in 1995 and the winner was likely to face Roy Jones Jr in America (but Roy would of probably ducked them no doubt), the Benn/Eubank-Jones Jr fight would of been either Eubank's eighth fight of his eight-fight Sky deal or the final fight on ITV boxing (Benn-Jones). But Eubank lost to Collins and so that messed it up.

True.
Also, Benn says that Roy Jones dodged him in 1993. Jones was the mandatory for Benn's WBC title, but Jones decided to drop a weight division and fight for a lesser title instead. If that's not dodging an opponent then I don't know what is!