Gerald Mcclellan

Moruti Mthalane is another one.

Currently a "flyweight" but generally enters the ring weighing around lightweight. I still think he's an ace fighter, mind.

 

Yep, Donaire prides himself at being able to rehydrate over a stone as well.

 

And yet a less drastic cut didn't improve his resilience all that much. ;-)

 

If no one else can be arsed I'll check my HBO version tomorrow.

 

Benn won? Benn was behind until the clash of heads which started Geralds blinking and injury induced stoppage. It might have actually ended in the first if the G-man hadnt made a half arsed job wrapping his own hands.

It was a great fight but Benn was fortunate the way things unfolded as it giftwrapped him a W.

 

Cant say I agree with the notion that Mclellan was a bully fighter because he cut weight like crazy. Nonsense imo.

there are many, many examples of this in boxing, as has already been said.

 

Yet G-Man couldn't put him away later when he hurt him again.

As I said, despite the circumstances. It also shows that with someone more resilient in front of him G-Man didn't destroy everything in front of him.

 

I think it ties in with his whole persona and leads me to that conclusion.

Especially as his notable opponents were much smaller than him. He wasn't the matchmaker of course, but he was given every opportunity to be a bully in the ring. Not so much a slight on him in fact, but another reason I just don't rate him all that highly as a fighter.

Does anyone know the circumstances of his early losses? I don't and would appreciate some insight.

 

Gatti vs Gamache in 2000

weigh-in 141, fight night 160!

 

In all fairness, without being sure of his out of the ring weight, id say a fighter like tommy hearns, who fought at 175 quite comfortably also shed huge amount of weight to fight far smaller opposition. Now im sure the same day weigh in rule which tommy observed during his 147/154 peak lessened the amount of weight he could gain, but he was still freakishly large for the weight.


His early decision losses, would like to know myself, id lay it down to youth and lack of experience, but I never saw the fights so cant say either way.

 

I'm not sure how the karma system works in its entirety, but it does seem strange when people receive what could be seen as a fitting punishment, some people believe that is karma.

 

Is the above comment a wind up or what?

Myra Hindley is a child Murderer & for all these years, her & her crime Partner, Ian Brady, have known for decades, where Keith Bennet, the boy who was aged about 8 in 1966, the boy whom they murdered, is buried. Yet they don't even have the humility to inform the family of the location.

Gerald McClellan may not have been perfect by any means, but I don't give a damn what you say, getting involved in dog fighting & murdering numerous children, cannot be compared in any way, shape or form!

 

it is a wind up of course

 

It was of course an exaggerated remark designed to state an opinion sarcastically (and thanks for giving me info' on Hindley, a used her as an example because I had no clue whatsoever of her sickening deeds and lack of conscience, because I like making assumptions), but as an atheist I think we're all on this land by chance and none of us deserve a right to assume superiority (no tree hugger, **** Caucasian layabouts with dreadlocks)

Of course, killing a child is about the lowest thing someone can do. McClellan was clearly a malicious and spiteful person himself, and I wouldn't just give him a free pass because he was a boxer. He was a deranged sadist. Not just dog fighting but calculated torture of helpless mutts and got kicks and driving over birds.

But of course, not that bad because he's a boxer who's suffered a tragedy.

 

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