2:27 of this vid.There was definitely something wrong with Gerald before the fight

:-(


that being said holy hell @ benn's speed at the mitts just before

great buildup to the fight

 

The dead Labrador's ghost was was in Benn's corner that night.

 

Mos def.

Such a sad story.

 

Benn was special, what a fight that was!

 

Sad...

Nah, not really.

 

sad story. Losing your eyesight is the worst thing that can happen IMO

 

wow it looked like he was suffering from some type of neurological problem .

 

He got a Labrador, took it to his basement, duct-taped its mouth shut, and set one of his pitbulls on it.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,583541,00.html

This is how Stan saw Gerald and the whole dog thing: 'So he got this black Labrador, just went to the dog shop, told the man, "I need a dog to take care of, I'll take this Labrador home," and the man say to the dog, "Yeah, you got a good home now," and Gerald takes the dog home. He takes the dog down his basement and tapes the Labrador's mouth, takes his pit bull Deuce and says "Get him!" He lets Deuce start eatin' the dog up while he's timing it on a watch, see how long it would take his dog to kill this dog. And I said to Gerald, "Hey, Gerald, this Labrador wouldn't beat Deuce, no way, so why did you tape his mouth shut?" And he said, "Coz I just wanna see how fast my dog would kill him, for one, and, for two, my dog's a championship fighter and you don't need no dog scratched up and bit up by no dog, by no accident. This is like sparrin' for my dog, this is like my dog need to taste blood every day. My dog need to kill somethin' every day, Stan. Just like a fighter need to spar every day, he don't need nobody bustin' him up when he got a big fight comin' up. He just need to bust somethin' up hisself. Right?"'

 

Great fight...tragic ending. One of my all time favorite fights. Just a shame Gerald ended up the way he did.

 

That's ****ed up :-(

 

Yep.

 

Was reading in one of my old boxing mags how Gerald was saying that he still had headaches from the first Jackson fight. This, of course, was before the Benn fight. Pretty chilling