What if the McClellan Tragety had never happened?

McClellan would ahve complained about headaches, the blod clot in his brain would have been discovered and he would have been forced to retire.

If he didnt have a blod clot however, he would have rivalled toney and rjj at middleweight but would probably have stayed there for longer and dominated the division. Then when Calzaghe turns up they would have a couple of great fights with Calzaghe winning close decisions.

 

I watched that fight last night.
Benn showed some balls to get back in the fight after the first, he looked ****ed.
Absolute tragedy what happened. I watched this clip on YouTube after, quite moving.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjoM63rJ3I

 

there would've been a big fight between the best p4p fighter and the best p4p puncher and jones would have beat him conclusively and then i'm guessing g-man's career track would have had the same trajectory as meldrick taylor's after he started losing... that fight was brutal and vicious because mcclellan had completely forgot how to box at that point in his career, he was just ko'ing people in like 1-2 rounds and wasn't even getting rounds in...

 

That fight almost made me quit watching the sport.

I remember feeling physically ill right before the stoppage!

 

A lot more animals would've died in gruesome ways and he probably would've taken the Ibeauchi (sp) route to jail.

 

He should've retired because even though his chin was fine, his brain's punch resistance wasn't- 6 rounds with Julian Jackson basically finished him, and that was with an exceptionally short career rounds wise and minimal punishment taken (in the actual fights, at least) leading up to them. G-man had less than 70 rounds of experience for his career going into the first Jackson matchup even though he'd had 29 fights.

Afterwards, he really starting getting more mentally unstable and the headaches really began intensifying. When he didn't retire at the signs that something was really wrong, it didn't become a matter of if something drastic wound up happening -but a matter of when.

Had a fight with Roy happened (I don't think it would've anyways), Mclellan's downfall would've been on Roy's hands and I don't think Roy would've ever been the same for it.

 

Hopefully he would've retired because even though his chin was fine, his brain's punch resistance wasn't- 6 rounds with Julian Jackson basically finished him, and that was with an exceptionally short career rounds wise and minimal punishment taken (in the actual fights, at least) leading up to them. G-man had less than 70 rounds of experience for his career going into the first Jackson matchup even though he'd had 29 fights.

Afterwards, he really starting getting more mentally unstable and the headaches really began intensifying. When he didn't retire at the signs that something was really wrong, it didn't become a matter of if something drastic wound up happening -but a matter of when.

Had a fight with Roy happened (I don't think it would've anyways), Mclellan's downfall would've been on Roy's hands and I don't think Roy would've ever been the same for it.

 

McClellan was the victim of maybe the worst referee in the sport. I don't think the referee reffed another fight after that. Benn a fighter I liked constantly kept rabbit punching Mcclellan. Benn was allowed to do this the whole fight. To this day, I don't give Benn credit for a legal win. He was coming back, he didn't have to rabbit punch every chance he got.

 

I think both Toney and Jones would have beaten him, me personally I don't think a McClellan-Jones fight would have been competitive at all,it would have ended in a late stoppage or wide UD.

 

If G-Man doesn't have the health problems, and stops Benn in that fight, then he loses to his friend Roy Jones in a unification bout. Maybe he stays champ at 168 after Roy moves up to 175, then eventually loses to Calzaghe (if that fight actually materializes).

Toney had left 168 by then. Toney would've torn G-Man up. Stylistically, that's a very bad fight for McClellan.

 

NALLEGE WROTE:
McClellan was the victim of maybe the worst referee in the sport. I don't think the referee reffed another fight after that. Benn a fighter I liked constantly kept rabbit punching Mcclellan. Benn was allowed to do this the whole fight. To this day, I don't give Benn credit for a legal win. He was coming back, he didn't have to rabbit punch every chance he got.


Good point... I can't believe the ref let Benn get away with all those rabbit punches. It was outrageous. Benn should have been disqualified... If a good Ref like Tony Weeks or Mills Lane had been reffing the fight Benn would have been disqualified after the second or third round.

 

It STILL would've happened. McLellan was suffering from headaches and all the danger signs of his condition long before he and Benn ever stopped into a ring.

McLellan probably would've gone on another fight or two and the inevitable would've been delayed. Where Nigel Benn's career goes is a completely different situation.

 

not to mention the ref illegally helped benn back in the ring.

 

some of you seem to just make this stuff up as you go along.