would geralrd mclellan have been the greatest fighter ever

[jabsRstiff]

I had also heard a story about McClellan, after his first fight with Jackson, walking around the ring really complaining about his head hurting badly.
who knows ?

[scap]

I loved McClellan.....I got to see him take out Carl Sullivan- live. 19 second KO.
His fight with Jackson was incredible....for what you spoke of, Scap. I don't thnk Jackson ever really hurt McClellan, but made G back off with that "Oh ****, this man can punch" look on his face. Tremendous chin on McClellan, to go along with the power.

I think he was pretty awesome, for a time. But, he was no way on his way to being one of the best ever, & I don't ever think he could have beaten Roy.

As wild as he was becomng he would have pressed Jones to the max and at middleweight no one ever really pressed Jones...would have been fun too watch!

[XionComrade]

One thing I would like to say about McClellan is that he seemed to have it all.
He had possibly the hardest punch in Middleweight history, and it was one of the hardest punches of all time. I saw him hit the punching bag, and I saw fighters like Mike Tyson hit the same size bag, the difference is terrifying, McClellan was devastating. He hit harder than most of the top 100 hardest hitting Heavyweights! A truly gifted fighter.

He had a great chin, he was able to walk through the storm when Jackson had him hurt in their first fight. And just walked through Benn's punches.

Great stamina, went 10 rounds with Benn and was hardly winded.

He was lighting fast, one of the fastest fighters I have seen.

But he was at times overconfident, he was overworked, and didn't tell his people everything. He said that after the first fight with Jackson that he suffered from numerous migrains, I don't even think he had that checked out. He oversparred with heavy hitting heavyweights for the Benn fight to. The referee didn't help. Well God bless the ol' chap, I wish him the best but things still look very gloomy for the poor fellow...

[PROUD MEXICAN]

He fell to in love with his power, &basically stopped doing the things that used to set up his obviously awesome punching power.
By the time he fought Benn....all he did was hold out his left hand- no real jab- & try & drive his right hand down Benn's throat. He would occasionally fire a left hook to the body, which is a shame because that was really his killer punch. No combos.....no jab...no real skills at that stage. .

This is off topic, but I couldn't help but think of another fighter. Not that PACquiao is much of a jabber, but as y'all saw in his 2nd fight w/ Erik, PAC was busier w/ his jab than usual and that help set up his body punching and massive left. His last fight against Solis, he went back to the old PAC of winging it and just leading and firing his left hoping it landed, there was no plan of attack at all. I think PAC is regressing.

[-Hyperion-]

as much as i love g-man, he had to take you out in 3 rounds or it was over...

benn was giving him a beating after round 2 (with the ecxeption of the knockdown combo)i cant figure out how the judges had that fight for mclellan, he was fighting in spurts and getting hit with sharp hooks to the side of the head...

[eazy_mas]

anyway nobody is willing to trade with p4p most powerful puncher in the history of boxing going toe2toe.

That is amazing just the Julian Jackson KOed Herol Graham by one shot and i think the people who are going to fight him are the one who want to prove something so i dont think Toney or other where going to

[Dimebar]

'What about McClellan being the hardest pound-for-pound puncher in the world?'

Benn: 'I've had more knockouts than he's had fights!'

'Are you looking to make it a long fight, Nigel?'

Benn: 'No, I'm looking to knock him out in one round! He aint fought a puncher like me before.... cos there aint one, mate!'

He was right. McClellan had never fought anybody with Benn's power..

[GAME]

Mclellan was a great fighter in his time but it is far fetched to assume he could have been the greatest of all times. However if he had stuck with Manny Steward and had his health he could have been great. Plus there were lots of great fighters around his weight classes during the early 90's. By fighting the James Toney's Roy Jones suppose he beat Nigel Benn the G-MAN would be very highly rated today. However its all speculation.

[The Noose]

'What about McClellan being the hardest pound-for-pound puncher in the world?'

Benn: 'I've had more knockouts than he's had fights!'

'Are you looking to make it a long fight, Nigel?'

Benn: 'No, I'm looking to knock him out in one round! He aint fought a puncher like me before.... cos there aint one, mate!'

He was right. McClellan had never fought anybody with Benn's power..

Jackson hit harder than Benn.
Benn had better technique and was the better boxer.

[La_Vibora]

I actually met a guy who was on the same Olympic team with Roy Jones and had sparred some rounds with McClellan during his time working out in the Kronk gym. He told me that Gerald was the best fighter he had ever seen and that he was better than Roy Jones. He said he actually expected McClellan to still be around as a reigning champion right now. He also told me somethings about Manny Steward and how certain people in his camp(not Manny himself) were trying to rip him off. He was also pissed off at how overrated Oba Carr was at the time and how Manny's camp offered Carr so much more than him when he said he was the much better fighter and "cleaned Carr's clock" in their sparring session. It was a very interesting conversation we had.