Who else thinks gerald mcclellan had the brain clot before the fight?

thanks squirrel... great ratio though... imagine that impact from jackson if he lands say 40%... then here comes Benn, his k.o ratio had to be high as well but anyway just looking at that fight, Benn landed a lot of clean shots to gerald chin as well as the rabbit punches... that truly was a killer fight and someone dam near died literally...

well we all know that jackson was probably one of the greatest punchers to live... his knockout ratio had to be 90% if not higher... so i can see where he got hit by big puncher... and if you get misdiagnosed by doctors and they give you a clean bill of health even after the headaches, and you get hit clean in that area well, and the rest is history... His KO ratio was 85% :)

He took some big punches from Jackson in there first fight so if there was any weakness there that would have done him no good at all, Gman was clearly in trouble from almost the 2nd round against Benn he was acting strange everytime he was hit, i think if the fight was stopped in the first round when he had Benn out the ring he could well have got injured in another fight.

well we all know that jackson was probably one of the greatest punchers to live... his knockout ratio had to be 90% if not higher... so i can see where he got hit by big puncher... and if you get misdiagnosed by doctors and they give you a clean bill of health even after the headaches, and you get hit clean in that area well, and the rest is history...

I could be wrong about this, since i came across it some time ago but. Gerald Mcclellan would apparently only start burning off the muscle to get below the limit till one week of the fight and that fight night he would blow up hugely.

It's so hard to tell really - Gerald was complaining early on in the fight that he wasn't feeling right, so you could say his symptoms were coming on then (maybe). But maybe he received it earlier and Benn triggered it, or exacerbated it, or whatever. Part of me thinks that 40 odd minutes of being batted about (having been in the ring with people like Julian Jackson) is more than enough to cause that damage, but the other part of me feels the opposite: that time just doesnt seem long enough to incur such severe damage and it must have been the icing on the cake, so to speak. I did hear he suffered a lot from headaches, even really early on in his career.

it is a horrible to watch

There used to be a boxer from the old days that specifically targetted the back of the head, i can't remember if he ever killed anyone, wish i could find that page on wiki again.

gerald absorbed a lot of power punches... clean shots to the head... normally benn hits you and you hit the floor but, gerald downfall was his chin which was probably too good...

its also a shame that nobody was looking at the red flags going up before the fight.obviously benn feels horrible about what happened,but there are more people to blame then him

i also read somewhere that he told his corner he wanted to stop again after the 6th i think and they told him to "go out and die in the ring if he had to" or something like that.

I don,t think they caught it... If there,s any finger pointing far as his condition after the fight then you got to look at his corner... There is no fckin way my guy tell me that water is feeling is like actually on my brain and i say ok champ keep fighting... Dumb fcks... Gerald sister was mad at benn when actually she should,ve been mad at his team for letting that fight continue...

i think so also.i remember him saying that something wasnt right during the fight and that he wanted to stop.there are a lot of variables to consider here.i remember talking about this fight yesterday with my buddy and the only thing he said was,why didnt anyone stop the fight?if only they had

Hey ped, did you know that gerald told his corner that the water that they poured on his head was feeling like they were pouring it directly on his brain??? And that was around the 4 round... I heard that before, but I'll need to watch it again to see if Showtime caught that.

I can't remember where I read it, but there was some story about a trainer of his who noted that he clenched up with a severe headache after he got hit on the front of the head whilst sparring - years before the Benn fight. That may have had something to do with it, but I'm convinced that whatever underlying ailment he had that was waiting to show up, the constant onslaught of rabbit punches by Benn exacerbated things and accelerated his demise.

Hey ped, did you know that gerald told his corner that the water that they poured on his head was feeling like they were pouring it directly on his brain??? And that was around the 4 round...

It's definitely possible he had some brain injuries before the fight. But who knows really? Headaches can mean anything. Lots of people get headaches, it doesn't mean they have a brain injury. As great as this fight was, it is difficult to watch. As is Eubank-Watson 2, and to a lesser extent, Quiroga-Anifowoshe.