Benn vs Mclellan was like Hagler vs Hearns, only longer. Brutal back & forth action. At one point, I didn't think Benn was gonna' get up, yet he not only got up, but immediately started landing uppercuts. Incredible. I've only seen a few other Benn fights, but they were all entertaining. The guy always seemed to really want it. Probably one of the best fighters in any division, ever. It kills me that Hagler didn't hang on a few more years. It would have been conceivable for he and Benn to have fought, and that would really have been something.
Say, you know who kinda' reminds me of Nigel Benn, though maybe a tad slower & sloppier? Keith Thurmon.
the way they fought was similar to Hagler and Hearns. They just collided, and Benn was too quick for Barkley. Nigel's career is underrated. Nigel was such a hard puncher, then he improved later on and became more than just a puncher.
Iran Barkley easily had the tools to ko Nigel Benn.His problem of course was so evident watching that fight.He fought with his hands down and chin out.Got knocked out and whinged about it afterwards.He didn`t prepare himself properly,didn`t respect Benns power and paid for it.
lookie, lookie who history will remember the best there's a good reason for that leave the blind patriot at home and learn to think about what you're posting
yeah but not during his prime like hopkins, it's only after both these great fighter were in their forties and past their best that blinkered posters like yourself try to score points against them on britain's behalf i don't mind if you don't like either jones or hopkins so long as you can debate your point well, but you only do it because you're british and butthurt get over it, it's petty and pointless
why don't you, and t bag **** off out of a benn thread and start your own one wanking off about jones then. "oooh but he wasn't ko'd in his prime" Yeah because he didn't step up to Glen Johnson level until his miraculous chin vanishing from a crash diet. Nowadays he sells his ass, and braincells for crack money, to the highest bidder. But it's alrigh, when he's braindamaged you can say "he wasn't a drooling vegetable in his prime though, USA! USA! USA!" Now, kindly **** off
yeah, a glen johnson win would've been so much bigger than his hopkins win... if you're a bad loser, don't debate to begin with i'm not a flag waver, i'm just speaking the truth you just need to grow up and stop taking the achievements of others so seriously
again, why the **** are you in a benn thread? typical yanks, "ooh someone talking good about someone not american? time to stick our noses in and start going on about OUR achievments instead" **** off.
you're making a fool of yourself you won't find one thread of mine - not one - where i'm trying to trumpet the US but here you are, getting all pissed off because you didn't like me replying to you whe you implied that jones should have done all the work to fight benn keep it comin' though if you feel the need too...
TAKE A LOOK HOW THE CONVERSATION STARTED You peon. And it IS the story of Jones' career, oh he would of beat him, yeah yeah yeah Would of is an opinion.