Worst pre-existing injuries fighters entered fights with?

[MAK212]

Gerald McClellan’s brain damage before the Benn fight.

[JAB5239]

Gerald McClellan’s brain damage before the Benn fight.

He didn't have brain damage before the fight.

[markusmod]

- - Didn't know stoopid was a medical condition.

I think he has some breathing issues where air is trapped in the chest

[QueensburyRules]

Gerald McClellan’s brain damage before the Benn fight.

- - Yup, and sadly so McC was suffering severe headaches in the lead up. They fed him to Benn who they thought was past it and an easy horizontal Brit KO, a terrible gamble that backfired.

Had they withdrawn in advance, McC lives intact, but may have to seek treatments if the headaches don't disappear. If you look at his life with breeding and fighting pit bulls, that's a very hard life around sketchy, criminal types in the backwoods where the only law is who gets the drop on the other when disputes go to gunplay.

[QueensburyRules]

I think he has some breathing issues where air is trapped in the chest

- - Was that a Doctor of Scientology diagnosis where the only treatment is to go Clear?

[HOUDINI563]

Louis Firpo stepping into the ring with one of the most ferocious of heavyweight champions with a freshly popped back into its socket dislocated left elbow.

[MAK212]

He didn't have brain damage before the fight.

He definitely did, go watch the open workout, he was blinking non stop, that is pretty much indicative that he had brain damage before. His family also said there were personality changes after the Jackson fight, another sign of brain damage.

[BattlingNelson]

He definitely did, go watch the open workout, he was blinking non stop, that is pretty much indicative that he had brain damage before. His family also said there were personality changes after the Jackson fight, another sign of brain damage.

Can you post that workout?

If this is true, the BBBofC should have had a massive courtcase against them Surely this should have been noted during the pre-fight medical and a heavy burden would also fall upon McClellan's family, team and himself for allowing the fight to go ahead. All the resentment and grudge towards Benn carried by the McClellan family in the years after the fight looks very bad if they indeed knew their fighter had a braininjury BEFORE the fight!! I find this very hard to believe tbh.

[Marchegiano]

There was also this dude Tim Tomashek. He was picked from the crowd for an alphabet heavyweight title fight against Tommy Morrison. Tomashek had been drinking beer all through the card, when he was asked to to step in the ring because Morrison's opponent refused to take a pre-fight drug test in the dressing room lmao. One of the most outragerous stories in modern boxing this lol.

So his injury going in was that he was drunk!

..Jeepers!

[JAB5239]

Can you post that workout?

If this is true, the BBBofC should have had a massive courtcase against them Surely this should have been noted during the pre-fight medical and a heavy burden would also fall upon McClellan's family, team and himself for allowing the fight to go ahead. All the resentment and grudge towards Benn carried by the McClellan family in the years after the fight looks very bad if they indeed knew their fighter had a braininjury BEFORE the fight!! I find this very hard to believe tbh.

That's what I was thinking as well. Aren't there usually CT scans before world championship fights, or am I mistaken?