Gerald Mclellan is not over-rated

The truth is that I don't even really like talking about his fight with Benn. From a boxing standpoint it was everything you can ask for but from a human standpoint, it was saddening. Those two men went to a place that night where only a handful of fighters can say they have been. Sadly, some of those guys are no longer with us (Chico Corrales R.I.P.) and McClellan never really came back. It is a place that we as fans can't even fathom being in. Fighting on raw instinct and whatever human resources you have left while your body is ready to shut down. It was a great victory for Nigel Benn but it came with a severe cost as he himself was never the same again albeit in the sense that he was no longer the fighter he was.

I would absolutely love to see the poster who started the other thread tell Nigel to his face that McClellan was overrated.

 

Unfortunately its the saddest part of the fight game when a fighter's heart keeps him going through punishment his body simply can't tolerate. It was a savage fight & both men were never the same from it. I don't know how anyone who calls themselve a fight fan can possibly want to rubbish McClellan on his fight performances inside the ring. Speaks volumes about themselves.

 

Alot of these guys don't know anything else but the fight game. Their identities are forged in their careers as fighters and when they retire, a part of them dies. I would think that Gerald would want to be remembered as being the former rather than the latter but as time passes and a man's skepticism grows you just never know.

Lennox Lewis was always a man who seemed as though he could take or leave the sport of boxing. This is exactly why he is in the position he is in. If only more fighters had his mindset and were still as dedicated to their craft as he was they would get out of the sport in better shape.

 

I actually believe that since his tragedy he has gotten grossly overrated, especially when you see people making comments like "he would have exposed Roy's glass jaw".

 

Like you having a ****ing temper tantrum and raging in this thread?

Commence raging at me now. :nono

 

I agree. Well said. :good

 

Do you know how he trained his dogs?:think

He was a very good boxer, no doubt; but as a human being he was somewhat of a sick ******* (this isn't just my personal opinion, but comes from his former trainers and confidants as well - they all admit that he was a bad guy).

I don't subscribe to the whole "he deserved it" bollocks; I'm not God, so its not up to me to decide who deserves punishment for what; but I don't think we should elevate him up onto some pedestal either, just because he had the misfortune to be seriously injured in the ring.

In the strictly boxing sense I feel he is becoming a tad overrated.

 

we cant rate a man
who didnt even finish his career

 

People were putting him on he level of Miranda, personally I don't call that overeating him.