Interview with the G-Man

[rjj tszyu]

I have just been posted a link to see the Berto-Collazo fight by Kel. But just as I was about to start watching I noticed something in the corner of the screen.

It was this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGz-unNi1dU

This really moved me. I remember seeing the Benn fight all them years ago and I knew he was in a bad way but I have never seen just how bad. I really think it's a shame that a once great champion ended up like this.

One thing for sure is I'll never forget Gerald McClellan

[Kel]

Yeah I remember watching that a while back, very sad to watch, but thats the risk you take being a prize fighter.

[rjj tszyu]

Yeah I remember watching that a while back, very sad to watch, but thats the risk you take being a prize fighter.

Certainly is but I have heard (and I don't know how true it is) that Gerald had a blood clot before the fight but the brain scan wasn't compuslory then so he went into the fight with Benn with that time bomb waiting to go off. And with the bombs he took off Benn it was bound to burst and obviously did.

If this is true then the men behind the scenes who didn't enforce scans are to blame for this man being in such a state now.

[El Kabong]

.....great fighter but I can't feel sorry for him

[JT Rock]

I talked to his sister 2 years ago, he has improved quite a bit from that video.. His housing situation is still pretty sad but they carry on

[DatsiK]

Wow that was difficult to watch. I haven't saw the fight but that must of been some punch from Benn. This just reminds you what a cruel and dangerous sport it is, and no boxers have visited him since? That is terrible to hear.. not even Benn? You would think Benn would of been the first to visit.

[JT Rock]

Wow that was difficult to watch. I haven't saw the fight but that must of been some punch from Benn. This just reminds you what a cruel and dangerous sport it is, and no boxers have visited him since? That is terrible to hear.. not even Benn? You would think Benn would of been the first to visit.

It wasnt a single punch, and the stage for Gerald's brain trauma was already set before that fight, he was ahead on 2 of the judges scorecards and his brain gave out

[Fenster]

Wow that was difficult to watch. I haven't saw the fight but that must of been some punch from Benn. This just reminds you what a cruel and dangerous sport it is, and no boxers have visited him since? That is terrible to hear.. not even Benn? You would think Benn would of been the first to visit.

That video is a few years old.

Last year - might have been 2007 - Benn held a massive fundraiser for him, they flew McClellan over to London and everything

[ICB]

Wow that was difficult to watch. I haven't saw the fight but that must of been some punch from Benn. This just reminds you what a cruel and dangerous sport it is, and no boxers have visited him since? That is terrible to hear.. not even Benn? You would think Benn would of been the first to visit.

Roy Jones Jr went to visit him.

[Pugilistic]

.....great fighter but I can't feel sorry for him

I agree.

what he did was unforgivenable imo.

[BlackRazor]

.....great fighter but I can't feel sorry for him

I agree.

what he did was unforgivenable imo.

You guys talking about his dog fighting? Yeah, I never even heard about that until about a year or so ago. That part where he taped the mouth shut of one dog so it couldn't defend itself was sickening.