I contend that Gerald "G-MAN" McClellan was injured by N. Benn's headbutt in round 9.

LO ****ing L

 

Sounds like a typical Hopkins/Ward sort of fight and they dont fight in England

 

hmmmmmmm, sounds awfully like an Andre Ward or Benard Hopkins fight to me.

 

A Holyfield-Hater i see... how many of his fights have you watched?

Holy only started headbutting when he was Past-Prime & flat-footed.

Let's see what he achieved before being Past-Prime:

Unified the WBC, WBA & IBF cruiserweight titles in '88.

Won the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship in '90.

Defeated Bowe in '93, to regain the WBA & IBF titles.

 

Good post. Looks similar to the one I posted previously, shown above

 

Holyfield used his head like a bull and where were most of his fights ?

 

I don't think one headbutt would cause the blood clot in his brain bill.

 

It was barely a headbutt, more benns dreadlocks hitting his eyes. Its not like his head was rocked by the headbutt, but it was being rocked all night by benns punches.

 

I think it began no later than the Julian Jackson #1 fight when he started that blinking .

McClellan would have stopped him in round 1 had it not been for the extremely corrupt referee who kept saving Benn by pausing the fight every time and separating them when McClellan was finishing Benn.

 

I think he brought the injury into the fight. There was an incident described by a sparring partner (can't find the interview) that expresses the guy's surprised that McClellan was hurt that badly and later admitted as much.

You also can see visible signs of distress (blinking, breathing problems) in several rounds prior to the butt. The butt may have accelerated the effect, but the problem already clearly existed by then.

 

Not the most professional article, but here's the story:


The night that Gerald McClellan lost to Nigel Benn and sustained injuries he is still battling today, an interesting thing happened. While watching the fight on TV, Salmaci called me from Florida and told me the following story. Now for the first time ever, in his own words he will tell us that same story.

"I feel Gerald McClellan was already injured going into the Nigel Benn fight, I have a strong belief. There as this one time Gerald and I were sparring and I hit him with a solid jab in the middle of his forehead, like between the eyebrows...He told me "STOP, HOLD UP"! YOU THUMBED ME MAN. So he stopped and started blinking non stop from what I thought was a thumb. I never even felt like I thumbed him, and they were thumbless gloves so I just figured somehow my thumb must have poked him in the eye because of the way he was blinking really fast and non-stop..with both eyes though.

So we finish our sparring session, and we are in the back locker room at Kronk, this is like 1994, Gerald walks up to me and says, "Man, I'm gonna be honest with you...You didn't thumb me...You hurt me". "I'm man enough to say that". I was then kind of confused and surprised as to how I could of hurt him with a jab and I was fighting at 147lbs. and he was weighing probably 175 lbs....

 

This is from a story in 1995.


While no obvious blame can be attached to the French referee, Alfred Azaro, and Gerald McClellan's corner men, it is now thought possible that hints of serious distress escaped them in the intense excitement generated by Saturday's ill-fated contest against Nigel Benn for the World Boxing Council super- middleweight championship.
The American, who remains grievously ill in a London hospital following the removal of a blood clot from his brain, wore a deeply troubled expression on being sent out for the seventh round as though it had been in his mind to retire from the contest.
Even though McClellan almost knocked out Benn in the next session, the sight of his protruding gumshield and especially constant blinking, are now considered by medical experts to have been further tell-tale signs of the calamity that overtook him following a count-out in the 10th round.




http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/concern-growing-over-signs-of-distress-1575289.html

 

McClellan was blinking before the headbutt though wasn't he? If he wasn't doing that, I'm sure he was hanging his gum shield out before the headbutt, that to me tells me he suffered throughout the fight, just that the headbutt is what accelerated the problem.

I heard one of his trainers say that McClellan kept complaining about water running down his face, he said that's when I realized he was bleeding from the brain, something like that anyway.

I actually believe McClellan's body was deteriorating before he fought Benn, that if it hadn't of been Benn, it would of been someone else. McClellan was complaining of head aches in the first Jackson fight.

I also read an article about how he would cut ridiculous amounts of weight in a short space of time.

McClellan said in a pre fight preview, that his voice and skin colour changed from killing himself to make weight. Now the Benn fight was at 168, so no reason why it should of been an issue, so why was it? Only explanation I can come to, is like Watson after the McCallum fight, the damage was already done.