McClellan revisited...

**mspiegelo** · 07-09-2008, 12:14 AM

long live mclellan's memory. he had the heart of a warrior and its a damn shame what happened to him. the ref should have stopped the fight numerous times in either direction. they were taking way too much punishment in there. plus nigel benn got like a 15 count in the 1st round, but that's another story.

**Silencers** · 07-09-2008, 12:15 AM

That's a sad interview.

I remember Pacheco saying McClellan quit like a coward or something like that but I thought it was Don King who said he quit like a dog when McClellan was in the hospital.

**ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY** · 07-09-2008, 12:18 AM

Pacheco said his heart gave out on him...and he is a DOCTOR...I was always amazed by that one. I have been in fights where I was in distress and believe me, there were definitely moments where I wondered if I was possibly iheading towards a Gerald McClellan type ending. That is the reality of professional boxing.

**mspiegelo** · 07-09-2008, 12:18 AM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNjoM63rJ3I&feature=related

nigel was never the same. he would have beat steve collins in his prime pre-mcclellan.

this gives perspective of what happened to benn post-mcclellan

**Silencers** · 07-09-2008, 12:21 AM

I thought and still think that Pacheco was an idiot for saying those things because as you said, he's a doctor.

The medical assistance for that fight was horrible as well.

**Chew BackAtacha** · 07-09-2008, 12:52 AM

Benn is a HOF fighter because he beat McCellan, Doug DeWitt, Iran Barkley etc. Eubank is a HOF fighter because he beat Benn, KO'd him. SO why does no-one give Calzaghe credit for beating Eubank? Eubank was only 31, a little past his prime.

Anyway McCellan was a machine, and a HOF fighter cos he ko'd Julian Jackson and was the reignin linear middleweight champ at the time. His mistake was looking past Benn and towards Jones Jnr.

**JAB5239** · 07-09-2008, 12:57 AM

Originally posted by ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LGz-unNi1dU&feature=related << Next time a guy looks weak, is getting hit a lot, isn't showing the Gatti-Ward-Holyfield type of heart we all admire so much, think before you jump on him. The announcer was saying Gerald quit like a dog and that "his heart gave out on him."

Not exactly, huh?

Man, that video is heart breaking.

**GreatestIam** · 07-09-2008, 02:07 AM

Man its so f-ed up what happend to Gerrald he should be a millionaire maybe even a GOAT rigt now.. just think if he was still fighting some gouys wouldnt be as relavent and some not even mentioned in the books, like Benn maybe think if he lost that fight by 1st rd ko

**ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY** · 07-09-2008, 11:48 AM

Yea U would assume and hope that Pacheco deeply regrets his statement but..it just shows the knee jerk raction many who are not truly in the know think when they see something like that. Oh he quit, hes a dog, hes got no heart etc etc etc blah blah blah. In professional boxing, in a "sport' so vicious and brutal that calls for two men to engage in warfare for a designated period of time (you cant just call time out when stuff gets deep) there is a lot more involved than meets the eye (Especially an eye that really doesnt know what it is looking at).

McClellan revisited...