McClellan revisited...

[jack_the_rippuh]

The demise of his dog Duece foreshadowed everything.

[sterling]

yeh i seen this and theres been a few threads about this video its very disturbing even roy jones cudnet go see gerald because he would want to quit boxing if he did.

[RichCCFC]

How can any sick ****er make jokes about this?

[Hagler★]

**** is heartbreaking
very hard to watch without gettin emotional

[Chunk..]

Is it true that Gerald McClellan doesn't know what happened to him?

Feel sorry for Nigel Benn also with having to live with it, day in day out. Benn even tried to gas himself in his car cause it was getting to him so bad.

Really sad story.

[BattlingNelson]

To a degree I can understand the close-eyes approach by present fighters as they dont want a hands-on experience of the risks they deep-down know is clear and present. What I cannot understand is that the so-called governing bodies of the sport dont set up some retirement scheme for the fighters. It could easily be financed by a small percentage of championship-fights purses.

That's what sickens me!

[Live Dog]

I remember seeing a vid where a reporter who covered McClellan in his fighting days went to visit him not too long ago. McClellan remembered him but had no memory of that fight. He also asked him questions like..."Did you see me fight?"...."What color were my trunks?"...."Was I good?"

Sad stuff.

[pesticid]

To a degree I can understand the close-eyes approach by present fighters as they dont want a hands-on experience of the risks they deep-down know is clear and present. What I cannot understand is that the so-called governing bodies of the sport dont set up some retirement scheme for the fighters. It could easily be financed by a small percentage of championship-fights purses.

That's what sickens me!

How are u going to set up a retirement scheme? It's a lovely idea, but I don't think it can work in reality. There are far too many intangibles. What do you propose?

[Scott9945]

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.

Any respect I ever had for Pacheco went down the toilet that night. I was a fan watching on TV and I could tell there was something wrong, yet this clown is a medical doctor sitting ringside and he couldn't? Absolutely shameful and I'm glad Showtime finally dumped that fool.

[BattlingNelson]

How are u going to set up a retirement scheme? It's a lovely idea, but I don't think it can work in reality. There are far too many intangibles. What do you propose?

What it takes is some balls by the governing bodies. They should charge a slight 'pension-fee' from every fight they sanction. The set-up should be like any other pension-fond scheme. Everybody pays or the wont fight for that organization. IMO the funds should be governed by some establised independant bank, law-, equity or auditfirm since I wouldn't trust the governing body itself.

The fond should pay an amount to every fighter who has fought in one of their sanctioned fights on a monthly basis after their say 50'th birthday. The scheme should include some medical-insurance as well.