No takers? Usually your matchups are close perhaps that is the reason. Tony Zale by a mile on this one.
Zale would break McClellan down with his vicious body attack and stop him anytime after eight. Gerald would have his moments especially early and maybe score a knockdown but I see Zale weathering an early storm to stop McClellan.
This fight resembles how Zale matched up with Al Hostak. IMO, it would play out much the same way. Zale gets inside Gerald "I couldn't throw an uppercut if my life depended on it" McClellan, perhaps surviving a knockdown along the way, and then breaks him down to a late stoppage.
No McClellan backers? He reminded me of much more limited, heavier Tommy Hearn's in a lot of ways. I guess you could compare him to a latter day Hearn's, because really, McClellan should of been a light heavyweight at the least. The guy boiled down as much as any fighter every has.
Zale was the greater fighter but his chin wasn't great. Plus were talkin about a 6'1 fighter going against a 5'7 fighter. G'Man bodies him in 6. Some of you are overrating Zale a bit, he lost to some average fighter's.
G-MAN KO earlier, McCellan may well have been the hardest hitting middleweights ever with frightening speed and accuracy and Zales there to be hit. He was basically a middleweight Tommy HEarns with a Mike Tyson destructive streak. If Zale gets outside of the early rounds he stands a chance of wearing McCellan down the stretch for a late rounds KO but I don't see him getting out of the early rounds
He wasnt matched right either, he should have been matched with durable fighters who'd make him go into the late rounds and work, he was always going to get drowned after bombing everyone out in the early to mid rounds then fighting someone who can suck it up and bring the pressure I'm not 1 who has too much sympathy for the GMAN he was a nut job and possibly evil. The world's a safer place with him disabled, I dont take pleasure in his condition as some do however
