Was Someone Paid Off?

[Thread Stealer]

McNeeley tried hard, he was just terribly overmatched.

I had a lot more respect for his effort than other Tyson opponents like Alex Stewart, Frank Bruno in the rematch, Bruce Seldon.

[JT Rock]

Nothin wrong there... If he continued Tyson would have kicked the piss out of him and probably hurt him worse...Mcneely was there to fight but like Thread Stealer said.. Terribly Overmatched

[ICB]

McNeely was just garbage end of he even lost to Butterbean that just shows you what kind of level he is at.

[Kenneth B]

Not to say McNeeley was a great fighter or anything, but at the time of the Butterbean fight, and also when he fought Brian Nielsen, he was going through a terrible drug problem. McNeeley was actually living in a crackhouse at that point in time. I thought at the time that was extremely callous matchmaking on the part of Arum and Mogens Palle, who had to have been aware of McNeeleys problems and used him as a "name opponent" of their respective fraud heavyweight stars. McNeeley weighed about 210 pounds for the Butterbean fight and couldnt have beaten Leila Ali