Nigel Benn's BBC column in 2001

[Super Cruiserweight]

Nigel was quite a big name 10 and 15 yrs ago and will obvously be remembered over here in US cos of tha Gman fight, he proved himself alot agenst Gman coming back from bein knocked out the ring in the first 30 seconds to beat him and cripple him and who can forget the stunning single round agenst Barkley !

By the way wot RJ fights was he referrin to ??

[JUYJUY]

By the way wot RJ fights was he referrin to ??

It could be any one of many.

[Super Cruiserweight]

is that supposed to be sarcastic or sumthing man ? im sure we'd all agree its very hard to think of a Roy Jones fight where he didnt look impressive !

[JUYJUY]

is that supposed to be sarcastic or sumthing man ? im sure we'd all agree its very hard to think of a Roy Jones fight where he didnt look impressive !

He wasn't exactly setting the world alight during his LHW reign by the time he got into the 2000's, he was boring and am I right in saying he didn't sell well on HBO?

[jabsRstiff]

Nigel was quite a big name 10 and 15 yrs ago and will obvously be remembered over here in US cos of tha Gman fight, he proved himself alot agenst Gman coming back from bein knocked out the ring in the first 30 seconds to beat him and cripple him and who can forget the stunning single round agenst Barkley !

By the way wot RJ fights was he referrin to ??

What I forget, is exactly how many times Benn bashed Barkely while Barkley was down....

Nigel Benn was humiliated by Michael Watson, who later went on to suffer the WORST BATTERING I've seen one guy take , courtesy of Mike McCallum.
Benn had to get up from the floor to KO Doug DeWitt.
He was KO'd by Eubank....

Nigel Benn would have been beaten inside out by Roy Jones.
You Brits need to understand, we Americans saw a TON of Nigel Benn....you can't hide behind the "you've never seen him, so shut up" line of ****.

I saw plenty of him. Thought he was tough & good...but you all are horrendously overrating him.
Jones wouldn't lose a second to him.

[JUYJUY]

What I forget, is exactly how many times Benn bashed Barkely while Barkley was down....

Nigel Benn was humiliated by Michael Watson, who later went on to suffer the WORST BATTERING I've seen one guy take , courtesy of Mike McCallum.
Benn had to get up from the floor to KO Doug DeWitt.
He was KO'd by Eubank....

Nigel Benn would have been beaten inside out by Roy Jones.
You Brits need to understand, we Americans saw a TON of Nigel Benn....you can't hide behind the "you've never seen him, so shut up" line of ****.

I saw plenty of him. Thought he was tough & good...but you all are horrendously overrating him.
Jones wouldn't lose a second to him.

Michael Watson says that Nigel Benn was "by far" the best he fought, Benn was battering him more so than McCallum was and this was a fully-fit Watson! Benn was torturing Watson and winning the fight before Watson thumbed him in the eye.

Against McCallum, Watson hadn't trained for three weeks because he had the flu, and he was also recovering from a broken thumb. He was in no fit state to fight that night but because it was a World title fight he knew it was too good of an opportunity to miss, and he fought gallantly to prevent the information getting out to the press (about him being ill and having a fractured thumb) because he didn't want anybody to make excuses for him if he lost. Remember Watson was the favourite to win the fight, but because he wasn't fully-fit he knew deep down he shouldn't of even been in a boxing ring.

Also, Eubank was beating Watson better than McCallum was in the first six rounds of McCallum-Watson and Eubank-Watson 1. And this was a fully-fit Watson against Eubank, and an improved Watson too.

Benn hit Barkley once just after Barkley had dropped to his knees, boxing is war not ****ing ballet.

Benn knocked down DeWitt four times in eight rounds, DeWitt went the distance with a Prime Hearns without being knocked down once. How many times was DeWitt knocked down in his career? I don't recall him being knocked down once in his career before he fought Benn, right? Kalambay stopped him but I don't think he knocked him down, am I right? Also Benn knocked out Robbie Sims for the first time in his career, oh and McClellan.

Benn was stopped against Eubank against his will, not knocked out.

[jabsRstiff]

Nigel Benn got ROPE-A-DOPED by Watson...
He never really got Watson....more PROPAGANDA from you.

Oh, now Watson has a bunch of excuses for his DESTRUCTION at the hands of McCallum ?
Ahhhhh, whatever makes you feel better.

I know that Watson was a prohibitive favorite over McCallum because of the age difference....& because the fight was taking place in the UK.

I don't care what was wrong with Watson (he was FINE, just more excuses), he was SCHOOLED & TORTURED by a superior fighter.
McCallum made Watson look like an absolute amateur. Landing his jab at will, whipping in debilitating body shots, reducing Watson into a pawing, sloppy nothing. A nothing that wound up on his back in the 11th rd...a broken fighter.

Mike McCallum ruined your boy on that night. You can keep your excuses, your comforts.....

[JUYJUY]

Nigel Benn got ROPE-A-DOPED by Watson...
He never really got Watson....more PROPAGANDA from you.

Oh, now Watson has a bunch of excuses for his DESTRUCTION at the hands of McCallum ?
Ahhhhh, whatever makes you feel better.

I know that Watson was a prohibitive favorite over McCallum because of the age difference....& because the fight was taking place in the UK.

I don't care what was wrong with Watson (he was FINE, just more excuses), he was SCHOOLED & TORTURED by a superior fighter.
McCallum made Watson look like an absolute amateur. Landing his jab at will, whipping in debilitating body shots, reducing Watson into a pawing, sloppy nothing. A nothing that wound up on his back in the 11th rd...a broken fighter.

Mike McCallum ruined your boy on that night. You can keep your excuses, your comforts.....

LOL! Anybody whose seen the fight knows that your exaggerating ridiculously and making a fool of yourself. Watson held his own despite having a broken thumb and a bout of the flu, yes he lost clearly but it wasn't Watson near his best. It was Watson's people that showed the x-ray's on Watson's hand after the fight, and it was in the newspapers before the fight that Watson hadn't been in the gym for weeks, it was all speculated that the fight was going to be called off and/or none other than Chris Eubank would replace him.

[JUYJUY]

Q: Of all the opponents you faced, who did you rate as the best?
Watson: By far it was Nigel Benn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/forum/1544388.stm

[jabsRstiff]

LOL! Anybody whose seen the fight knows that your exaggerating ridiculously and making a fool of yourself. Watson held his own despite having a broken thumb and a bout of the flu, yes he lost clearly but it wasn't Watson near his best. It was Watson's people that showed the x-ray's on Watson's hand after the fight, and it was in the newspapers before the fight that Watson hadn't been in the gym for weeks, it was all speculated that the fight was going to be called off and/or none other than Chris Eubank would replace him.

McCallum won every round. Watson got NOTHING done.
I watch this fight quite a bit, because it's the most beautiful paint job I've ever seen.
I know you haven't watched it since it happened, because it makes you nauseous to see your boy so horribly destroyed.

KO magazine described it as "a shattering performance by McCallum".
They were right.