Chris Eubank V Gerald McCllenan.........1995

Absolutely.

Good post.:good

 

Eubank's chin was too granite. He'd take it by UD. Possibly a KO if he didn't pose too much.

 

Rubbish.


Based on what. McClellan took bombs from Benn,Jackson and Mugabi.

What makes you think Eubank can stop him?.

Especially 3 years after he stopped trying to knock people out.

 

I agree with the last paragraph totally but I think you're being harsh on Eubank...I agree that the body was his weak point but he had hard hitters landing shots on his body his whole career and he only ever went down from balance issues and accumulation to the head. Chances are Eubank would have withstood McClellans body attack and got him in the later rounds but we differ in opinion and that's fine :good

 

Fighting Weight... always defending his hometown fighters... gotta love it.

 

That's the only worry for me in this fight, Eubank at this point was actually scared to unload on fighters in case history repeated itself, just shows what a decent human being he was, and still is. I fear the same couldn't be said of McClellan had he inflicted the kind of damage Eubank had on Watson.

I could accept that McClellan might get a decision over Eubank, but stoppage? No chance in hell.

 

What does that mean? How could you know that? What do you know of McClellan's mentality/personality??

 

You're just being stupid now. I'm not a 'homer', far from it.

Benn beat the **** out of McLellan, just look at the guy these days if you don't believe it. Harsh as it sounds it's true....Benn fought Eubank twice and never even dented the guy. Eubank fought up to 190lbs and was only stopped once, over the hill and on swellings to his eyes. Now how do you think McClellan stops this guy?

 

McClellans mentality is well documented. He was a piece of ****.

 

Eubank took bombs from Benn and won. So that point is moot.

Mugabi? Now you're reaching. He'd been clocked cold in 2 other weight divisions, before that. He was a shell by the time him and McClellan met.

And like I said, if Eubank stopped POSING (which he was doing much more than sitting down on his punches at this point), he'd be able to stop McClellan.

You still didn't explain how McClellan would KO Eu.

 

That's a ****ing stupid thing to say. What exactly in what you have read of his personality tells you that he would have had no qualms about brutally KO'ing people even after he had left someone blind/deaf/disabled?? You should not be making comments like this based on scant evidence.

 

Just to say someone has an "iron" chin is not a substantial reason. Anyone can be KO'd if hit with the right punch in the right area at the right time in their careers. Many "iron-chinned" fighters have been stopped - you don't need to be knocked cold with a single punch to get stopped. Technically, GMan knocked Benn out in the 1st round, as the count took longer than 10 seconds. He was a fearsome puncher. Eubank was floored in 1995 by Steve Collins - who was not a fearsome puncher or finisher. You may not think McClellan would've stopped an ageing, past-prime, gunshy Eubank, but you definitely cannot be certain of that.

 

It's widely known that McLellan was a piece of ****. Sorry to burst your bubble bud but he had no regard for life whatsoever. He used to buy labrador puppies from pet shops just to take home to feed to his pit bulls. The mother****er even used to time how long it took his fighting dogs to kill the pups he fed them - he also took great delight in flattening flamingoes in one resort he was staying at to train, hitting them with his SUV.

Forgive me if I don't say a prayer for Gerald McLellan, the man was, is and always will be ****ing garbage. The night Benn crippled the **** was a GREAT night for boxing.

Back on topic though, Eubank had a chin of iron and took all of Benns best shots when Benn was at his very best...Benn was on a final fling against McLellan, nowhere near as good as he was when he fought Eubank. No way does McLellan stop Eubank but I could accept a points win however unlikely it may be due to Geralds stamina issues.

 

I'm sorry, but only an absolute scumbag would make a comment like that. I don't give a **** what sort of man he was, when a boxer is left blind, almost deaf, and severely disabled you NEVER make a comment like that. You ought to be ****ing ashamed of yourself. ****.

 

Is the granite chin all that I based that on? Stop nitpicking.

And please don't try to make a parallel between the styles of Gerald McClellan and Steve Collins. There is no viable comparison; they wouldn't even go about landing their punches in the same way. Steve Collins was much better suited to beat Eu. But a slugger like Gerald wouldn't have done the job.