Very disturbing McClellan interview

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  1. Polymath

    Polymath Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I considered taking the time to educate you, decided youre not worth it.
     
  2. Sweet Pea

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    :huh Those were not rumors, they were absolutely true. His trainers and managers attested to this.
     
  3. Russell

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    Thanks for clearing that up. :lol:
     
  4. janitor

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    Even if he was a bad man nobody deserves that to happen to them.

    The lack of compasion that I am seeing here is quite troubling.
     
  5. Russell

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    Traumatizing woman and getting off on it doesn't make you deserving of being chopped down and given something similar?

    Feel free to lament on how it's sad, because it is, but don't expect overwhelming compassion.
     
  6. janitor

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  7. Russell

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    Heh, I'm sure there are two distinct parties who would either send him to prison or opt for the spinal cord cut, each group having vastly different experiences throughout their lives in regards to having a friend, parent or loved one that was beaten then.

    Quite the difference between imagining the fallout from it and seeing it first hand.
     
  8. janitor

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    The same aplies to the proposed sentence.

    The death sentence for example is something that sounds like a verry good idea untill you come to the practicalities of actualy implementing it.

    Still if you cannot be disuaded from the spinal cord cut, then at least use good Shefield steel.
     
  9. Russell

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    Beating on woman isn't some kind of temporary incident that's done and over. It's just as cruel and long lasting as anything, especially when the abuse is severe.

    And considering McClellan liked to "kill" and hurt things, I really don't want to imagine what he put the woman he abused through.

    People love to come down on Tyson like the wrath of god, but McClellan seemed like another beast completely.

    Love the man as a fighter. I've been watching a lot of his fights lately and I created a thread involving him today. But as a person I really can't fathom anyone with any idea of the long lasting effects of abuse feeling sorry for the man.
     
  10. Cobra33

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    I don't feel sorry for him at all.What goes around comes around.

    as far as all these people DEFENDING Gearld about the dogfighting give it a rest.Its already been verified long ago BEFORE Gerald got hurt.Everyone knew.
    You know when a pitbull gets too injured in a match the owner usually just shoots it.:tired
     
  11. Robot16

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    Yeah i know, he seems just like a child now.

    I didnt know about that, but i mean imagine how they felt about what happened, im sure they dont really want him dead. What i mean is that they are spending basically their lives looking after their brother. I mean there are alot of other people who would have left him.

    Yeah i have read about dogfighting, but still, he will be jdged by that one day.
    But also what i mean is that whatever he did in the past is there, in the past. Because imo in the video he just seems like a child, an innocent child. I mean he cant really rememebr what he did back then, it is still sad to see someone like that.

    Whereas if it were a childbeater/wifebeater, ****** or killer, and something happened to them and they knew why it happened imo is different.
     
  12. janitor

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    I can asure you that I am in no way nieave about the effects of domestic abuse having delt first hand with both the victims and pepatrators.

    McClellan seems to have been a particularly unplesant individual but nobody deserves to have their mind or body taken off them. Indeed their mind is a key instrument to them having any prospect of aressing what they have done wrong.

    I would add that there is no heroism in mocking a helpless individual however bad they were.
     
  13. bill poster

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    I don't know if he was a product of environment and circumstance or just plain bad (or all these)

    If its karma then whats done is done but it was good when they held a fund raiser in London for the man to be looked after.
     
  14. Cobra33

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    Those who give no mercy should recieve no mercy.Simple as that.
     
  15. janitor

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    You should probably set your sights on being a better man than McClellan.

    That would mean not only matching his mercy but exceeding it.