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I heard this about Gerald McClellan.........that he visited the grave of a fighter who died in the ring days before his fight with Benn, i read that somewhere but i cant remember what the fighters name was, i think he was a British fighter, but how ironic is that ? not that G- Man is dead of coarse but you know......
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Johnny Owen? -
Pretty sure it was Bradley Stone, who died less than a year before Benn-McClellan and had the same surgeon operate on him as Gerald.
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"Gerald used to walk by this statue of (fallen former British fighter) Bradley Stone in days leading up to the fight," recalls Lisa. "He would stare at the statue, and shake his head saying, 'That will never happen to me.'"
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Yeah that's what happened, I was reading about it last week. Apparently they had the same brain injuries but Stone's got worse after the fight and didn't have medical attention as soon as McClellan.
Another thing I didn't know is that McClellan was awake in the ambulance but couldn't remember the end of the fight and was asking what happened.
I was reading about Ruelas-Garcia yesterday as well, that's another sad case of a boxer dying from a fight.Comment
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Just found this..........
What the papers said about . . . Bradley Stone
Sunday, 1 May 1994
'Stone, bruised but alert, left the ring at 10pm. 'I'll take a year off,' he said. But by 2.30am he was in a coma.' Times
'Coma tragedy of boxer spurred by love.' Mail
'Stone, from Bethnal Green, acquitted himself well for 10 rounds. But maybe tiredness had set in. Wenton crashed a fearsome left hook to Stone's chin. Stone took three or four more shots before referee John Keane intervened. It was the end of a dream.' Guardian
'It would be cause for regret if the sport were to be banned because of its all too obvious dangers. Risks are part of human life. Indeed, strange creatures that we are, many individuals would find a risk-free life unbearable. This is one of the reasons why pursuits such as rock-climbing, hang-gliding and free-fall parachuting will never lack adherents. So it is with boxing.' Express
'Little hope as beaten boxer fights for life.' Telegraph
'The best arguments to retain boxing as a sport are the oldest. Ban it and we will end up with something akin to ****fighting or dogfighting. Driven underground by outlawing it, boxing would then certainly become a barbaric activity.' Mirror
'Even if the law did dictate against boxing, men would find places to fight for prizes, the way they have done in the past. They would fight because it is in their nature, because it is as much a part of them as music was to Mozart and writing was a part of ****ens.' Independent
'Richie is even willing to give his belt to Bradley.' Sun
'There was no sign of anything untoward. He shook hands with me with a firm grip. His face was still burning from the fight and he had the usual lumps and bumps that a scrapper like Stone might take home with him.' Times
'Only three hours before he died former boxer Michael Watson - who was in a coma for 40 weeks after suffering brain damage during a boxing match in 1991 - visited Stone's bedside to pay his respects.' MailComment
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