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 McClellan Still A Champion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
McClellan collapsed in his corner and was taken to a nearby hospital for observation.
McClellan's brain began to rapidly swell and a section of his skull had to be removed in order to extract a massive blood clot.
Gerald's strength is so immense, that every few minutes I have to interrupt him while he's talking to beg off and alternate my hands from his vise-like grip.
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 A Decade Later. The Gerald McClellan Tragedy
Gerald is completely blind, his eyes are healthy but the signal to his brain is on a short circuit and his brain has trouble recognizing sounds, his brain injury also caused short-term memory loss.
Gerald lived his young life as a lion, and in that I mean he ruled his domain, he was invincible for a few years and lived life to the fullest.
Gerald was a warrior to the fullest extent, he lived by the sword and was willing to die by the sword, the sport he loved built him up and then tore him down.
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 JS Online: McClellan fights a mysterious foe he can't defeat
Gerald McClellan and his sister, Lisa, pose with a painting depicting his fight with Nigel Benn on Feb. 25, 1995.
McClellan floored Benn again in the eighth round, but absorbed a crunching hook to the head when he carelessly charged in after the eight-count, hands at his sides.
McClellan is holding the hand of his niece's boyfriend, a 275-pound lineman on the Freeport High School football team who stands respectfully off to the side of the former middleweight champion of the world.
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 Nigel Benn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In round ten, McClellan suddenly went down on one knee and the referee counted him the ten seconds to end the bout while he was still on one knee.
McClellan collapsed when he went back to his corner and the scene inside the ring descended into chaos, so much so that Benn did not know what was happening until he was being interviewed by Showtime's commentator Dr.
McClellan was taken out of the ring on a stretcher and wearing an oxygen mask.He lost consciousness on his way to the hospital.
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 Cyber Boxing Zone -- News
On that night in London, Gerald McClellan, the former middleweight champion rising in weight to challenge for the WBC super middleweight crown, collapsed after a brutal ten round bout with Nigel Benn.
McClellan, who complained to his corner after the second round that something was not right, soon fell into a coma, and surgery was immediately conducted to remove a blood clot from his brain.
She said that Gerald is forced to do dishes around the house, and while he doesn't like it, his sisters are trying to give him as normal a life as they can considering the circumstances.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gerald made his way to Motown and Kronk gym, and under the tutelage of legendary Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward, went about his winning ways once again.
So feared was McClellan's punching power, that he entered the ring as a 4-1 favorite, despite having to travel to the other side of the Atlantic, not to mention having to move up for the first time in his career.
Gerald immediately attacked Nigel, and a mere thirty-seven seconds into the fight, a devastating flurry punctuated by two brutal blows to the head drove Nigel threw the ropes and out of the ring.
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 Remembering Gerald McClellan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I heard that McClellan was badly injured after the fight, I had heard it was war, I had heard it was one of the greatest bouts ever televised.
I was fully aware that McClellan was blind, unable to walk, and in need of constant care after the punishment he sustained in the ten round brawl.
Not until McClellan decided to call it quits after taking a knee for the second time after receiving questionable shots to the back of the head in the eleventh round.
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 Boxing - Gerald McClellan, Never Forgotten
McClellan was moody, snarled at the press and could be nasty to anyone he came across.
McClellan hit him with a barrage of punches in the first round, including a devastating right that knocked Benn out of the ring and left him draped over some television monitors at ringside.
McClellan was still winning on two scorecards as the fight went into the 10th round, but he was getting hit with rabbit punches on the back of his head that were hurting.
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 Your Top Source For Boxing News and Training Advice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gerald McClellan went to work that night and returned a man who will never be able to see his three children.
McClellan was one of the few to defeat Roy as an amateur.
Gerald and his family must live with this tragedy for the rest of their lives.
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 Boxing News : Gerald McClellan
He's referring to Gerald McClellan, the former WBC middleweight champion who had his life altered permanently by a brutal bout with Nigel Benn in 1995.
Lisa McClellan, Gerald's sister, said that in terms of her brother's health, "I think this is about it as far as any big progress." So he will never see his three children again, never hit a heavy bag with reckless abandon, or do roadwork in the morning.
The fair-weather friends have come and gone, and Gerald McClellan will never have the life he dreamed about when he was on top of the middleweight division.
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 Gerald McClellan: A Fallen Warrior In Need of Forgiveness and Support | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
Knowing that —in McClellan’s own words to his corner midway through the fight — “something isn’t right tonight,” the medical staff was put on alert and top doctors who happened to be watching the fight dropped their plans and made sure to head for the hospital at the drop of a dime.
Once referee Alfred Asaro waved the fight off, Gerald then made his way back to his corner, where rather than sitting on a stool, he dramatically slumped to the canvas, again indicating to anyone that would listen that something was not right.
Finally, they ask that Gerald is remembered not for the way he conducted his life outside of the ring, but for the present physical state he is in and will remain as a result of what transpired in the ring, and not as an afterthought.
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 Gerald and Lisa McClellan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He said, "I wanted to call you before they showed the fight on TV, but Gerald had a headbutt and took a knee and we are taking him to the hospital for observation, but he's fine." He wanted us to know what to expect.
I knew there was some fueding between Gerald and Emanual Steward but he came to Milwaukee to visit him, but when Emanual got back to Detroit he did a big article in the paper and said a lot of private things about Gerald's condition.
Gerald is in the position he is in because of the people he trusted.
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 The Observer | Sport | Fighting for life
In Las Vegas in 1994, when Gerald McClellan was preparing for his rematch with Julian Jackson, the one-eyed hitter he'd stopped the year before to win his world middleweight title, he was in his hotel room.
But Gerald had a dark side to him, because he was a violent, violent, violent, violent, violent person.' I had to check: that was five 'violents'.
Gerald hadn't killed anybody, as King had, but he had that streak in him, an icy vein of ruthlessness.
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 USATODAY.com - Ten years later, G-Man's world is little changed   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On the phone with McClellan is a writer, the same writer who visited him at his home in Freeport, Ill., two years ago.
McClellan's brain is damaged, just as it has been ever since that fateful night in England 10 years ago this week when Nigel Benn hit him with a series of punches in the 11th round of their middleweight title fight that sent McClellan into another, much darker world.
McClellan is 37 now, and his days are mostly spent sitting in his living room chair in front of a television he can't see.
www.usatoday.com /sports/boxing/2005-02-22-mcclellan_x.htm?csp=34   (891 words)

  
 Boxing Monthly
McClellan’s power was not in question and he was coming to London with one thought in mind.
McClellan unleashed a hurtful combination to the top of Benn’s head and he went through the ropes, landing on a ringside table.
McClellan had never been more than eight rounds in his career, not past five during his last 14 fights, and was now faced with a super-fit and resolute champion who had taken his usually destructive punches and was still standing.
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 The tragic life of Gerald McClellan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And long after he was = knocked out, Gerald McClellan fell into a coma right in the middle of = the ring.
The entire story of Gerald McClellan was one of those accidents waiting to happen.
And long after he was knocked out, Gerald McClellan fell into a coma right in the middle of the ring.
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 The Observer | Sport | Fighting for life (part 2)
When Gerald's money runs out, Lisa says she will move Gerald into her place.
Gerald was a notorious 'rounder', to use the American expression.
Gerald had arrived in London without Steward or Willie Brown, his regular trainer and the man who latterly had been wrapping his hands.
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 Doghouse Boxing
After a long war, McClellan could no longer continue in the 10th, and was taken to a hospital where the doctors removed a blood clot.
From Julian Jackson to John Mugabi to Jay Bell, Gerald McClellan was one of the most exciting Middleweights I’ve had the privilege of seeing.
Today Gerald lives with his sister Lisa, who has devoted her life to taking care of her brother.
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 Guardian Unlimited Sport | Columnists | Kevin Mitchell: You can't right McClellan's plight
Such a sentiment occurred to Greg Dyke when he was running ITV 10 years ago and confronted a commercial dilemma over the spectacular collision of Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan.
McClellan accepted the toll on one knee, then collapsed in his corner.
McClellan remained in an induced coma for 11 days as doctors eased the pressure of a blood clot on his brain and was eventually flown home to Freeport, Illinois.
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 Boxingvideos.net
Gerald McClelland as well as Nigel Benn personify the word game.
McClellan rocked and dropped Benn at least 4 times.
Every boxer should be introduced to Gerald McClellan...he is a man whose entire life was given in the search of greatness.
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February 25th will mark a decade, the tenth year that former middleweight champion Gerald McClellan has struggled with life since his fight with Nigel Benn left Gerald with permanent brain damage.
Shortly before his battle with Benn, McClellan told the press that he was willing to die in the ring instead of losing.
Gerald was a warrior to the fullest extent, he lived by the sword and was willing to die by the sword - the sport he loved built him up and then tore him down.
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 Articles - Roy Jones Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
McClellan had defeated Jones in amateur boxing at the 1988 United States National Golden Gloves in the 156 lb.
McClellan moved up to the Super Middleweight division to fight WBC World Super Middleweight Champion Nigel Benn on February 25, 1995, just a few months after Jones had fought Toney.
But McClellan was tragically left permanently disabled at the hands of Benn, and the state in which Jones' friend was left seemed to have an effect on Jones, whose style has been criticized as too cautious.
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 The Derrick   (Site not responding. Last check: )
McClellan had worked as a telephone operator and also worked in the kitchen at the Oil City Hospital.
McClellan was a homemaker and enjoyed playing bingo, going to yard sales and crocheting.
McClellan was preceded in death by two sons, Glenn McClellan Jr.
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 ipedia.com: Gerald McClellan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gerald McClellan is a former boxer who was world Middleweight champion.
Trained by hall of fame trainer Emanuel Steward, he conquered the WBO world Middleweight championship knocking out John Mugabi i...
He has been the honoree at numerous banqueets and award ceremonies, and fellow boxing world champion Roy Jones Jr, often pointed as a possible rival during the 1980s, set up a foundation to help McClellan.
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 SportsFilter |
DaVarryl Williamson, a 35-year-old with a master's degree, is pursuing a career in the ring.
McClellan arguably doesn't know, as someone was quoted, but perhaps his thoughts may be deeper than his verbal output shows; many people are like this after they have had a stroke.
McClellan is young and healthy and has his sisters so he might have a better prognosis than someone twice his age.
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 Nigel Benn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
McClellan collapsed when he went back to his corner and the scene inside the ring went berzerk, so much that Benn did not know what was happening until he was being interviewed by Showtime's commentator Dr. Ferdie Pacheco.
McClellan was taken out on a stretcher and with an oxygen mask out of the ring, and he lost consciousness on his way to the hospital.
Benn spent the night at the emergency room waiting for news from his ring foe.
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 Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often!
Although he had been a lifelong fan of the sport, it hadn’t yet occurred to Joe Antonacci to get involved in professional boxing on the night of February 2, 1995, when former Middleweight king Gerald McClellan was in England challenging Nigel Benn for his WBC Super Middleweight title.
They brought him out in a tux.” Unable to fend for himself and having exhausted all his ring earnings on the considerable cost of the 24-hour care his sisters faithfully provide, McClellan is forced to rely on the generosity of the boxing world for funding.
For this reason, Gerald and his family rely solely on donations to the Gerald McClellan Trust to care for him.
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 NetBoxe - Actualite de la boxe mondiale en langue française
McClellan nous transporte dans le frisson : une sensation rare que peu de boxeurs véhiculent.
Dans le coin adverse, McClellan le mime ironiquement avec un coup d’œil tranchant comme une lame de rasoir.
Gerald McClellan a récupéré son état de conscience, mais il a perdu la vue.
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