If Steve Collins had come along earlier against Benn -Eubank?

That version of Gman was badly hurt from a non punch from a 147 pounder in the kronk gym. Look it up. He was done after Jackson 1 and just got lucky bombing guys out in one round afterward and not tested. By lucky I mean he didn't take any clean punches. For example Jackson could have killed him in that rematch if he landed. I say again, watch the Benn McClellan fight and score it. Benn does not lose any round in which he doesn't get dropped and barely gets hit in those rounds he wins. The version of Gman from Jackson 1 would probably run through Benn, Collins, Eubank and Watson on the same night.

If McClellan was still himself, I think he would say he went through all kinds of hell in that Benn fight because he was brain damaged and in excruciating pain from when he took the first clean punch.

But he lost his memory. Like the theory that general anesthesia doesn't put you out but instead the retrograde amnesia that it gives you just takes away your memory and you don't have the memory of being awake for the operation. McClellan doesn't have the memory from the fight. In my opinion he was an example of a guy with maximum heart. If he took a knee like that, believe me he was going through a hell that would break any man. His own pain from being in excruciating brain damage. He was nothing more than a shell of himself that night. Benn was crap on the night and still won. The folklore from that fight is very annoying. It's 100% wrong from people who didn't watch the fight or didn't understand what they were seeing and we still have to read the bull**** today when anyone can go and watch the fight and see what im saying is 100% true.

 

Benn had a fractured jaw, fractured rib, broken nose, broken cheekbone, collapsed through exhaustion on his way back, in hospital for a week pissing blood and according to Peter DeFreitas brain xrays showed shadows hovering over various parts (which explains Benn’s lack of balance against Nardiello); they had to hide these scans from the board by underhanded means.

 

Benn had to be lifted in and out of baths when he got home from hospital. He was done. All the ligaments in the side of his neck tore from the right hand from McClellan to the top of Benn’s head at the start of the fight on the ropes.

 

I also recall him saying he was eating through a straw for weeks, all the inside of his mouth was ripped up.

 

Similarly Eubank Sr says he was very close to death after the second Watson fight.