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WITH apologies to Irving Berlin: There’s no business like the boxing business and fighters also smile when they are low.
Just like the showbiz stars, fight folk traditionally have looked after their own.
Whenever an ex-boxer is in trouble, for whatever reason, they immediately rally round.
Usually it is financial. A classic example of the sport’s generosity occurred a year ago when £125,000 was collected for American Gerald McClellan.
He had suffered severe brain damage during his brutal battle with Nigel Benn in 1995.
Kevin Lueshing, former British welterweight champion, was the man who brought the disabled McClellan over from the States for the London fund-raiser.
Read On ...http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle719050.ece
Just like the showbiz stars, fight folk traditionally have looked after their own.
Whenever an ex-boxer is in trouble, for whatever reason, they immediately rally round.
Usually it is financial. A classic example of the sport’s generosity occurred a year ago when £125,000 was collected for American Gerald McClellan.
He had suffered severe brain damage during his brutal battle with Nigel Benn in 1995.
Kevin Lueshing, former British welterweight champion, was the man who brought the disabled McClellan over from the States for the London fund-raiser.
Read On ...http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle719050.ece