gerald mclellan

[Hydro]

From all accounts of the people that met Gerald, he was a modest and very nice fella.

Dont know what u can make of this interview of Gerald when he was healthy, but you can get a glimpse of how he spoke/acted in his prime.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0wlyK9gYV7E

Yeah my dad met him and said G-Man was a very soft-spoken and nice guy.

u never know by meeting someone though what kind of dark, demented side they might have.

Look at how often they catch a sociopathic serial murderer, and the neighbors and acquiantences or whatever say "oh, he seemed like such a nice man"

[Franko]

Man, people are talking about Mclellan like he deserved what happened to him. What exactly did he do, just into dogfighting? (I'm not saying it was anything close to OK to fight dogs but it seemed like he did a lot worse **** they way people were talking about him)

What exactly happened in the first. He knocked Benn out of the ring but should the fight have been stopped then or did the ref do the right thing. And what else did the ref. do throughout the fight that people critizised him for?

It's probably best that you take another look at the fight and draw your own conclusions, but IMO the referee was terribly inept, and extremely over-fussy. That said, the fight shouldn't have been stopped when Benn was knocked through the ropes, as Benn was back on his feet and in the ring prepared to continue in good time, and of-course, fighters are allowed extra time to recover if they are knocked out of the ring. However, what the referee seemed to do was award Benn even more time when McClellan was trying to stop Benn in the first round i.e. he was pushing McClellan, and seemingly warning him for something or other which was giving Benn vital time to recover, which he eventually did. However, regardless of the failings of the referee, Nigel Benn still deserves credit for winning that fight, and i'd have given the guy credit even had he been stopped in the 2nd round because to come through that first round was an achievement in itself.

With regards to the rumours surrounding McClellan's private life prior to his injuries, i tend to concentrate more on what he achieved in the ring. I don't agree with dog fighting in any shape or form, but if McClellan did then that's his business, and i'm not really interested in it. Sure i know all the stories surrounding McClellan's private life, but boxing is filled with unsavoury stories, sometimes that's the nature of the business, but anyone who states that McClellan deserves his current state due to his involvement with dog fighting is out of order IMO.

[BKM-]

The best laughs i always get from Gman threads, where you have idiots ripping on him for ''******ing dogs'', wich doesn't have proof, none of you knew him in real life so why the **** do you believe what the media says?
You must be gay too, if you respect a fighter for what he's like in real life.

[The Noose]

Man, people are talking about Mclellan like he deserved what happened to him. What exactly did he do, just into dogfighting? (I'm not saying it was anything close to OK to fight dogs but it seemed like he did a lot worse **** they way people were talking about him)

This is why some people think he deserved what happened to him.
But in reality, its his family who are really suffering, and i dont think anyone deserves that.

The Observer isnt a trshy magazine. Its a fairly decent newspaper in England. Im dont really want to believe McClellan was that ****ed up.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0%2C6903%2C583541%2C00.html

Kevin Mitchell
Sunday November 4, 2001
Observer Sport Monthly

In Las Vegas in 1994, when Gerald McClellan was preparing for his rematch with Julian Jackson, the one-eyed hitter he'd stopped the year before to win his world middleweight title, he was in his hotel room. He was bored, anxious. He got a video out and slipped it in the machine. The fight was only a few hours away. It was the biggest of his career. There was nobody about and the world champion settled down to get his kicks.

As the tape rolled, Stan Johnson, McClellan's coach, knocked on the door.

'He's some guy,' Stan recalls. 'I think he'd be in his room before a fight, gettin' a little ***** or somethin' before he go to the fight ...well, Gerald be in the room this time watchin' tapes of dog fights. I thought he be watchin' a sex movie. But I goes into the ****in' room, Gerald's got a tape of himself watching the dogs with a stockin' over his head where you can't see who he is - in case somebody find the tape no one know it's him!'

This is how Stan saw Gerald and the whole dog thing: 'So he got this black Labrador, just went to the dog shop, told the man, "I need a dog to take care of, I'll take this Labrador home," and the man say to the dog, "Yeah, you got a good home now," and Gerald takes the dog home. He takes the dog down his basement and tapes the Labrador's mouth, takes his pit bull Deuce and says "Get him!" He lets Deuce start eatin' the dog up while he's timing it on a watch, see how long it would take his dog to kill this dog. And I said to Gerald, "Hey, Gerald, this Labrador wouldn't beat Deuce, no way, so why did you tape his mouth shut?" And he said, "Coz I just wanna see how fast my dog would kill him, for one, and, for two, my dog's a championship fighter and you don't need no dog scratched up and bit up by no dog, by no accident. This is like sparrin' for my dog, this is like my dog need to taste blood every day. My dog need to kill somethin' every day, Stan. Just like a fighter need to spar every day, he don't need nobody bustin' him up when he got a big fight comin' up. He just need to bust somethin' up hisself. Right?".....

continues.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0%2C6903%2C583541%2C00.html

[Franko]

This is why some people think he deserved what happened to him.
But in reality, its his family who are really suffering, and i dont think anyone deserves that.

The Observer isnt a trshy magazine. Its a fairly decent newspaper in England. Im dont really want to believe McClellan was that ****ed up.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0%2C6903%2C583541%2C00.html

Kevin Mitchell
Sunday November 4, 2001
Observer Sport Monthly

In Las Vegas in 1994, when Gerald McClellan was preparing for his rematch with Julian Jackson, the one-eyed hitter he'd stopped the year before to win his world middleweight title, he was in his hotel room. He was bored, anxious. He got a video out and slipped it in the machine. The fight was only a few hours away. It was the biggest of his career. There was nobody about and the world champion settled down to get his kicks.

As the tape rolled, Stan Johnson, McClellan's coach, knocked on the door.

'He's some guy,' Stan recalls. 'I think he'd be in his room before a fight, gettin' a little ***** or somethin' before he go to the fight ...well, Gerald be in the room this time watchin' tapes of dog fights. I thought he be watchin' a sex movie. But I goes into the ****in' room, Gerald's got a tape of himself watching the dogs with a stockin' over his head where you can't see who he is - in case somebody find the tape no one know it's him!'

This is how Stan saw Gerald and the whole dog thing: 'So he got this black Labrador, just went to the dog shop, told the man, "I need a dog to take care of, I'll take this Labrador home," and the man say to the dog, "Yeah, you got a good home now," and Gerald takes the dog home. He takes the dog down his basement and tapes the Labrador's mouth, takes his pit bull Deuce and says "Get him!" He lets Deuce start eatin' the dog up while he's timing it on a watch, see how long it would take his dog to kill this dog. And I said to Gerald, "Hey, Gerald, this Labrador wouldn't beat Deuce, no way, so why did you tape his mouth shut?" And he said, "Coz I just wanna see how fast my dog would kill him, for one, and, for two, my dog's a championship fighter and you don't need no dog scratched up and bit up by no dog, by no accident. This is like sparrin' for my dog, this is like my dog need to taste blood every day. My dog need to kill somethin' every day, Stan. Just like a fighter need to spar every day, he don't need nobody bustin' him up when he got a big fight comin' up. He just need to bust somethin' up hisself. Right?".....

continues.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/s...3541%2C00.html

Good post mate. That's taken from the book 'War, Baby.' Kind of ironic that Don King was rumoured to have said, 'He quit like a dog!' about McClellan when he took the count against Benn!