“I heard that he was eating junk like burgers all throughout the training camp for the Benn fight, he had a hard time putting on weight but I would prepare special meals for him and have him eating lot's of good food.. but I heard he was eating a lot of junk like burgers all the time before Benn and I even heard that he wrapped his own hands in the dressing room before the fight. He wouldn't of 'made it' without me, I couldn't believe he was wrapping his own hands.” This is a quote directly from Manny Steward concerning the preparation before the tragic Benn bout. so many argue he was a cruiser weight sized monsters on the night of the fight against Nigel a LHW amongst the middles a real Goliath! A weight bully and a coward some say, yet looking at Gerald he does not pass the eye test at all he is tall... but he is genuinely less muscular then some of his comp who you would not deem weight bullies at all, namely Julian Jackson who was undersized at MW from the mouths of the people who discredit Gerald. Could someone clear this up is there actually any evidence of this Goliath hiding in plain sight? I’ve always found that this myth persists on the account of his injury in the ring as an indication for weight draining yet we have conflicting info from his own trainer? I think what happened was too many defensive mistakes in the face of demonic punchers.
There was a thread not too long ago in which we more or less proved it was a myth via group effort. Someone will dig it up, I’m sure. McClellan likely never weighed more than about 170 inside the ring. All that stuff about him being a Cruiserweight come fight time, dehydrating and rehydrating 25-30 pounds overnight, etc. is just as nonsensical as it seems.
Should preface this by saying that, compared to many others, I'm not the biggest G-Man fan and haven't really immersed myself in all that much reading about his out-of-the-ring lifestyle, but like you I have wondered about the validity of this, too. He was a pretty big lad for a Middleweight, sure, but doesn't strike me as someone who was walking around as a solid (not flabby) 185 lb between fights as is often claimed. Also worth noting that when he stepped up to Super-Middle to face Benn, he came in pretty light at 165 lb on the scales. Now that could be due to overtraining or trying to cut too much weight in too short a space of time, and as far as I know there's no official figure for what he might have weighed by the time he got in the ring. But again it might be worth noting Benn's comments in that 'Fight of Their Lives' documentary about the fight from back in 2011, when he said that as he came to the centre of the ring to face McClellan he was surprised to find that G-Man really didn't seem that big or physically imposing at all. Interested to hear if there's any more solid evidence of this rather than post-Benn hearsay.
Boxer's should be fighting much nearer to their actual weights, the way it used to be. the Divisions have to be re-thought, Reduced to about a dozen, 12 Divisions FLY - S.HW with about 10 lbs. between them. so that's less pounds between than the historical 8 divisions, but a comfortable figure more than the few lbs we have inbetween the 17 Divisions that we have today. you get two men about the same size in Stature, weighing NATURALLY 4, 5, 6 lbs or so different to each other, but still with-in the 10lb divisional limit. that would allow fighters more weight flexability with less pressure to HAVE to really cut. with 12 Divisions, guys like Calzaghe and so, would be comfortable L-HWs months to make weight is really exploitation, men 6' for example, that are naturally eitherside of 200 pounds coming in at 160 and 168, is simply a con. these discrepancies have proved dangerous too often, and it just maligns the sport. Restructure the Whole Divisions and Weigh-in dates. it could be done quite easily.
Here you go, Bujia. It was pretty much the entire forum banging on Bulldog24's head, trying to convince him of the unlikelihood of gaining the best part of 30lbs in 36 hours and being in peak shape. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...us-marvin-hagler.658341/page-17#post-20762943
This content is protected It has barely been mentioned but if you go to 18:42 at the staredown, he doesn't look 6'1" either. Benn is listed at just under 5'10". There's not much in it. Also the staredown against 5'10.5" Julian Jackson shows two fighters of similar height. I would say Gerald is a Monzonesque 5'11" and has a similar skinny frame. He said he walked round at 180. The link to that is in the thread about him and Hagler that I reposted earlier. Some context. I cant find the source so you're going to have to trust me, if anyone cares. Ray Leonard said he walked around at 175, got down to 160 for most of his training camp then reduced to 147. Walking around weight is neither weighing in weight nor fight weight. It's considerably heavier. I would be surprised if someone who walked around at 180 and made super-middle with 3lbs to spare ever weighed much more than 170 in the ring.
