Let's see, two power punching guys, one is a wild swinger with heart and the other is a slightly less wild swinger with less heart. I'll go with wild swinger with heart. B)
That's retarded. Did you even see the fight? McClellan was in charge for most of the fight, except for after the headbutt and a round or two in the middle. Benn didn't really trouble him with speed; it was McClellan's lack of stamina, a brutal headbutt, and a few questionable calls by the referee that cost him the bout. You should watch it sometime.
Um, Benn broke McClellan's orbital bone with a headbutt. What does that have to do with "blinding speed"?
Is this another one of your obtuse jokes? Sure, McClellan went blind, but not because of Benn's speed. Again, it was because of a headbutt that broke McClellan's orbital bone. :nixweiss: I've watched that fight dozens of times. I spent a couple hours going through the fight repeatedly in slow motion, to go over the standing-18-count and other misconceptions about the fight. You've obviously never seen it.
Never proven, Benn was just the better man that night and Gerald gassed then got knocked out. p.s - Henry Cooper is not Bert Cooper. :neener:
Last edited by Alabama_Man : Yesterday at 09:03 PM. Seems like you had trouble getting your story straight again. :jester:
Stop changing the subject to keep from getting owned again. How was it never proven that Benn landed a headbutt? Haven't you even watched the fight? (I know yougottabekidding didn't.) Right after the headbutt, McClellan took a knee, but the stupid referee wouldn't let him stay down. For the rest of the fight, McClellan was blinking his eyes rapidly, and he seemed to be badly hurt.
Calm down, I'm just trying to ruffle your feathers and apparently I'm doing "too" good a job of it. You and Ashes are really touchy on the internet. Do you guys ever drink a beer after work and relax once in a while (provided you two are even employed)? I happen to think Cheater Benn should've been deducted for his rabbit punching, and other tactics during the fight. But in the end the victor doesn't really matter does it? Someone got hurt badly for the rest of their life and that's not what we want to see in our sport. B)
Both men were throwing rabbit punches. You're just saying the same shit everyone says on message boards about that fight; you know nothing about it.
Yeah, but you're still saying the same bullshit that everyone says about it on message boards, and you know nothing about the fight. You may have watched the fight, but you show very little comprehension as to what actually happened. You blame Benn for rabbit punching, while it was McClellan who instigated the trade of behind-the-head shots. You have this magic-bullet theory about how Benn's Dynamite-Kid headbutt had nothing to do with the fight. It's too bad you didn't videotape the fight or download it; perhaps with a few more viewings, you might be able to grasp the situation. Doubtful, of course.
Does anyone pay you to write about boxing? Is that why you have this belief that you're inherently correct about everything (even though you confused a big black guy for a white guy)? No? Then STFU. :neener:
I used to write for Sportsline and Inside Fighting. When I worked as a writer, it was all technical writing, though. Writing about boxing, wrestling, MMA and the martial arts was just for fun.
It's a given that Benn headbutted McClellan, the only thing questionable is whether that was what broke McClellan's orbital bone.
Watch the fight again, Payton. There's a HUGE difference between how McClellan was acting before the headbutt and afterwards.
