gerald mclellan

[Bucktown Beast]

Gerald was a very good fighter. Agressive, quick and had frightening power with a killer instinct to match. I don't think people overrate him its just that his legend is enhanced being that he was disabled in his prime. Sort of like Biggy dying in his prime, he sorta becomes immortalized and gets higher praise because of it.

And the whole dog "torture" tag that McClellan gets is so blown out of proportion its not funny. Thats some serial killer **** to torture animials. The real story is that he used to fight pitbulls (as do tons of people around the world) and after a fight one of his dogs was wounded badly. So he supposedly shot the dog to put it out of its misery. From there, the story has been twisted and turned to make him out to be some sadistic man who got pleasure out of killing helpless puppies.

The man was no angel sure. But just cuz he was a rugged dude outside the ring I dont think that merits him becoming blind and disabled.

[THE REAL NINJA]

How many of you know him or know some one who does ?

[Liaison]

If the beginning of his demise started in round 4, it’s really quite amazing that despite obvious pain he would have been in, he still manages to win rounds 6 and 8 (I had him up 85-84). A true warrior for sure.

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Gerald was a very good fighter. Agressive, quick and had frightening power with a killer instinct to match. I don't think people overrate him its just that his legend is enhanced being that he was disabled in his prime. Sort of like Biggy dying in his prime, he sorta becomes immortalized and gets higher praise because of it.

And the whole dog "torture" tag that McClellan gets is so blown out of proportion its not funny. Thats some serial killer **** to torture animials. The real story is that he used to fight pitbulls (as do tons of people around the world) and after a fight one of his dogs was wounded badly. So he supposedly shot the dog to put it out of its misery. From there, the story has been twisted and turned to make him out to be some sadistic man who got pleasure out of killing helpless puppies.

The man was no angel sure. But just cuz he was a rugged dude outside the ring I dont think that merits him becoming blind and disabled.

he ****in bloodbaited his dogs. you know what that means, right?

[Bucktown Beast]

he ****in bloodbaited his dogs. you know what that means, right?

Nah man. Another example of how his 'evil' legend was blown up. Bloodbaiting is a sort of medieval practice and as far as i know it involves a chained animal being attacked BY dogs. Like in foreign countries they chain up a gorilla or bear and unleash pitbulls on em. Although i guess u can basically do it with any animal as the victim. Yet it seems hardly like a common practice I imagine taking place in Chicago (where he supposedly engaged in these activities). Check out the book by McRae which has alot of factual info and interviews with McClellan.

He was just in to dog fighting. I know people who are in to dog fighting and altough i dont approve of it, if they wound up blind and brain damaged I wouldnt think that they deserved it.

Roy Jones is in to **** fighting, which these animals fight to the death. Some fighters just have that taste to see combat in its many forms.

[number6]

[QUOTE=Bobby Pazuzu;2088168]

I believe he is overrated by some not just because he is disabled now, but because his career was cut so short. Imagine if Tyson had retired or stopped fighting after demolishing Berbick? Alot more people would believe he was the greatest fighter ever.

Thats a good point.

G-Man was a good fighter and very hard puncher, but he gets overrated due to the "what could have been" factor.

It happens quite a bit.

Salvador Sanchez, who was great, still gets overrated quite a bit due to the "what could have been" factor. I see people rank him over guys who achieved more, and hear how he was greater than JCC and what not.

Same with Aaron Pryor. Excellent fighter who should have been more, but people overrate him and rank him above guys who acheived more.

I have only seen a handfull of his fights to be honest.He was a good fighter with devastating power but he is talked about as if he is an alltime great on this forum at times.There is nothing on his record to suggest this guy was going to become a boxing legend,the wins against Jackson were great performances but i do feel he is overrated due to his circumstances by many.For all we know, if he didnt end up in the condition that he ended up in and continued to fight, the Benn defeat could changed him completely and he may of took a year out and lost his next fight.We just cant rate people on potential,similar thing happens with Ike Ibeabuchi at heavyweight.

[Bucktown Beast]

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

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Nah man. Another example of how his 'evil' legend was blown up. Bloodbaiting is a sort of medieval practice and as far as i know it involves a chained animal being attacked BY dogs. Like in foreign countries they chain up a gorilla or bear and unleash pitbulls on em. Although i guess u can basically do it with any animal as the victim. Yet it seems hardly like a common practice I imagine taking place in Chicago (where he supposedly engaged in these activities). Check out the book by McRae which has alot of factual info and interviews with McClellan.

He was just in to dog fighting. I know people who are in to dog fighting and altough i dont approve of it, if they wound up blind and brain damaged I wouldnt think that they deserved it.

Roy Jones is in to **** fighting, which these animals fight to the death. Some fighters just have that taste to see combat in its many forms.

what i know about bloodbaiting is that it is the practice of feeding live animals (typically younger/smaller dogs) to your hungry fight dog to train him into the habit of killing its own kind.

you dont need a pole or anything, the cage/room where you keep your pitbull/dogo/whatever is big enough

I dont go as far as being happy with gman be blind and paralyzed, but given his hobbies I do not feel sympathy either.

just the same for rj, no respect from me for his rooster fighting passion.

[LoftyDog]

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?

[Jim_Davis]

No disrespect to Gerald but Nigel Benn made him feel the pain of all those innocent pitbulls. Karma's a ***** but its true when you think about it.