Honestly

Was this on the undercard of another big fight? Yeah, unbelievable the number of empty seats.

i was just thinking the same thing 👌🏽

@@Thomas-fk3cw Undercard for Lennox Lewis

What were people of the time watching this was huge

That's because Showtime re-released it. Had the master tape or maybe enhanced the quality.

look at their 2nd fight, quality is garbage .

1995 isn’t old, y o u n g n. 0 o b r e t a r d

@@Vercingetorix.Fantasiait’s good quality. You haven’t looked hard enough.

@@Don-rl1smyeah it is old bro

ny_kia31 yes indeed!

McClellan wasn't special. he was huge for the weight and could hit hard, but wasn't special skillwise or talentwise. Julian Jackson is a natural light middleweight, he was much smaller than McClellan.

second_to_NONE! He actually was very skillful! And had much talent! He could fight lateral, coming forward, going backwards, speed, combos etc...he just had not so good defense....he wasn’t that much bigger than Julian at all; both guys walking around between 175-180lbs...it’s just Julian had more dense muscle while Gerald was more slim...Julian already had a full career while Gerald was only still at the beginning of his when he suffered the stroke, so we never got to see his full potential...he was winning the Benn fight until the stroke happened in a bigger weight division against a guy who knocked 90% of his opponents out and was already deep in his career...he would have certainly been another Mike Tyson quality fighter if he had more years into his career...he was certainly star quality

@@InimicusTuus Nobody wanted to go near him at that time bud, he was a nightmare for anybody from middle to light heavy.

​@@zayatkinson7253 muscle doesn't matter that much. this isn't a bodybuilding contest. the point is that McClellan had a taller, thicker and wider frame than Jackson. functional strength in boxing largely depends on frame, if someone has a wide frame with thicker bones he will be always stronger than the small framed muscly guy. so yes, McClellan was definitely naturally stronger than Jackson, and he wasn't winning the fight against Benn. he won 3 rounds, with two being 10-8 rounds. keep in mind that Benn wasn't a really skilled fighter either, he got by having sheer ferocity and will.

Greatest Ref of all time. Rip to Mills🙏🏾

It reminds me of the talent level at 135 & 142 from say 1980 to 1985.

And boy did each and every one of them hit harder than hell

Hearns took Duran to the afterlife with one of the craziest punches I ever saw

@@CornholioPuppetMaster crazy that duran woke up 3 times before snoozing tho.

when the heavyweight division declines,the lower weights starts to shine.

No one is...they both are 2 of the deadliest punchers to ever step in the ring

And his KO loss to Mike McCallum. Julian was great - he just couldn't beat the truly elite Kronk guys.

I believe a prime Jackson would have taken out McClellan. As would James Toney or Roy Jones.

@@davidmccann9811 Didn't Roy fight Gerald at the olympics and lose? Weren't they both young then? :o

​@@marcoslaureano5562Mike McClallum is the most underrated fighter in the history of fighters. It's a shame he didn't get any of the Fab Four, but nonetheless he had an illustrious career, and thrived in the most competitive Middleweight division in the history of the sport.

It's the best quality I've ever seen of this fight

Lou Duva Mcclellan’s problem was that he had no defense, what is your opinion Lou Duva?

Yeah, how cool would it be for all these 90s classics to be remastered like this! Excellent job!

@@christiandesouza1750 He had excellent all round boxing, but fell i n love with his deviststing power and granite chin. Kronk fighters are sound boxers. Gerald was the best that ever came through there

Hearns was the best to come through Kronk but I respect your opinion.I think any defects Kronk fighters had back then Manny put right in the end and he became the best Trainer/Manager out there.R.I.P!

100 percent! I think he has the best left hook to the body in the history of boxing

@@Mattyic313facts

Jackson didn’t have the strongest chin lol we have to be real here all his losses are KO but still was an incredible fighter regardless McClellan genuinely had a granite chin as he has never been dropped rocked stunned nothing only had to quit due to a brain injury

He was a special tallent in an era packed with quality fighters unlike today that's pretty average.

@@ibrstellar1080he was into dogfighting wasn't he

Nah. Tragedy he bestowed to dogs . Karma is wonderful and correct for this lowlife. Makes me happy as hell

@@joke3825 yes. He bought a puppy. Tapped the mouth shut and put it in with his prize PitBull. Sickening.

@@CrueLoaf omg that's horrible

Yes he did say that, but Nigel Benn may have had something to do with the brain injury also, what do you think?

@@martytdd1606 no doubt about it Benn finished the job

@@mr.t658 Does anybody know what Manny and The G-Man were arguing about? Did Manny discover something after this fight?

@@martytdd1606 i heard they split over money Gerald thought Manny wasn't dedicating enough time to train him and was asking for a lot cash have you watched the documentary about this fight? if not you should watch it all questions are answered over there you can find it on youtube its called the fight of their lives

@@mr.t658 Yeah bud, Iv'e watched this documentary a lot actually, but because of editing and such I thought may be the film makers left out the part where Gerald's headache was focused on. It was never mentioned, may be it Benn's assault alone that night that did it. Thats the question that I'vs been asking since then.

What? He was already a very sick? What are you talking about?

@@TigrayBoxing In the build up to this fight, Gerald was already displaying worrying signs; backing off from sparring partners without explanation, etc. Also , many in his training camp had noticed strange behaviour; constantly sticking out the gumshield, and the heavy, hard blinking. At the end of this fight, Gerald says " I`ve got a terrible headache...…" fighters are used to the headaches resulting from sparring and the fights , so when a top level fighter complains about one , it has to be very , very bad.

@@stuartevans1188 damn...

@@stuartevans1188 Yes I have always followed Gerald`s career and there was always stories about this fight in particular. He was injured in this fight and somehow his injury would go unnoticed until all hell broke loose during the Benn fight. The 50 plus rabbit punches on Gerald`s head did not help the cause.

Can also see him wincing or hard blinking at the end of the fight...something just didn't look right. Easy to say now though.

@Jeep Amir • Did you see the first round of Hagler-Hearns fight?

@@keithclark7266, yes I did. And it was an all time great round. But, as I said, Jackson and G-Man are on another level when it comes to punching power in MW division.

@@jeepamir508 absolutely these dudes were monsters both of their punching power levels were off the charts

hagler was not a full on puncher

Ali vs frazier 3 no one can't beat that

Agree definitely could have focused more on the body

It's awful knowing what happened. Poor man feel awful for him :(

It’s sweat dripping in his eyes. It happens after any intense exercise and it burns, he can’t use his hands to rub his face so he blinks hard continuously

Based on everything I've heard its clear that Mclellan suffered a catastrophic head injury in this fight that set the stage for his brain bleed vs Nigel Benn. This is the exact same type of rapid blinking that occurred when Mclellan to0k a knee to end that fight. He experienced headaches on and off after this bout, the rematch and in training for Benn that were completely ignored.

Actually it was for the WBC middleweight title. You need to set a baseline to see who can hit harder not put one against each other, because it would actually be who has the better chin.

@@HulkVahkiin And technique, cardio, speed, reach etc

@@wrestler-kickboxer2524 Yes and no, because when it comes to two power punchers, it really comes down who can take the punch. Because one way or another, both are going to get hit.

@@HulkVahkiin you are right the chin does play major factor but never rule out power..some have it and some don't but these two legends definitely we're the hardest hitting middleweights the world has ever seen

@@HulkVahkiin Like Hearns-Hagler. Both hit very hard, Hearns harder, but Hagler's chin was made of iron.

What Don King did at the Benn fight was beyond disgusting. He walked in with Gerald and would walk out with Nigel Benn. Don`t think I ever heard of a boxer say good positive things about Don King.

@@agt462 Yeh he's a real piece of shit isn't he..

Nick Mck indeed I agree I think he’s unbeatable

I agree if that brain injury wouldn't have happened he would have beaten anyone

@@royorkesjr.445 but the brain injury was given to him by another boxer, and it didn't judge happen.

@@bartobartoman9517 I meant if the brain injury wasn't a factor at all he would have destroyed Nigel Benn

@@royorkesjr.445 l now understand and true because I've watched the match several times, you are right.

For whatever reason, this fight took place during the middle of the week. Even I missed it. That`s why it looks half empty.

Don King was putting multiple big fights on one card in the early 90's. So sometimes we see these historic fights as undercards with half empty areas.

Plenty of good fights today bud. Beterbiev vs Gvozdyk. Gvozdyk vs Stevenson were good wars with massive punchers involved.

Right. These dudes would eat punches and keep coming for you!!

Oh yeah most definitely

You called it bud 👌 His career would've been limited, had he moved up to 160 that year.

90s Boxing was soo talented. Made me fall in love with the sport lol

Wtf does that have to do with anything

@@bjr0467 when a fighter keeps doing that, it’s a sign of brain damage

​@@sameerberia7211 It's a sign of what? Sucking in more air when they're tired. Some fighters even purposely spit theirs out to steal a rest. Why can't you strange beings just accept that Jackson wasn't powerful enough to be a proper middleweight at that time. Benn and G-Man were next level up. It's called 'Super Middleweight' Benn got the Better of it on the night at 168.🤷‍♂️

Maybe that was just a habit of his. We have no idea of knowing if that was linked to any brain damage. It's very speculative. Not saying it WASNT related, but it's impossible to know for sure.

G Man mentioned headache in post fight interview here

I agree...no way was all the damage caused by benn...but benn being allowed to hit Gman with rabbit punches often, certainly did lots of damage.

@@anz2441 "Certainly", meaning you didn't like him getting rabbit punched and want to make it a great crime. Benn rabbit punched a bit when opponents grabbed on, yes, but McClellan was no angel inside the ring either (and frankly evil outside of it if the dog torturing stories are true).

Jackson was his sparring partner?

@@llla4091 🤨

No he never had brain injury

​@@STANKORachevlmao

@@STANKORachev He most certainly received damage...do u go around blinkin like that lol...I'd hope not. He was damaged here even in victory !!

In fact waffle I think he starts doing it - and pushing the mouth guard out - during the fight. I think the injury must have happened in the first few rounds. Maybe it was a vulnerability which was already there, either the legacy of a previous head trauma or something he'd had since birth, but in any case it begins during the fight.

@@STANKORachev Don't be an ass.

You don't know that for sure

McClellan fucked up Julian BIGTIME...look at the women's/people faces when dude gets his neck snapped back on the mat 20:06

I think so

@@tynao2029 mcclellan got fucked up by nigel benn😂😂😂

@@orlandoemecheta4468 Why is that funny? ridiculous!

No doubt he hits hard, but also he has been knocked out six times, hardly a sign of a great fighter

Man Julian jackson was an Incredible knock out artist smh

Jackson waa no joke he and McClellan are the hardest punchers ever in the middleweight division

​@@redredbostonelecelec Most of the greatest fighters in the boxing hall of fame lost more than 6 times.

Yep.

When Jackson took people out they were asleep before they hit the ground.

McClellan did the same thing Jackson did

I was about 12 rows from ringside when he fought Benn, and team McClellan were so over confident it was unreal. In the week before the fight Gerald seemed to be more focused on buying dogs than he was on the fight.

He had no professionals in his corner only homeboys. One time he had to do his own hand wrapping because his corner did not know how.

@@sickathanyouraverage4404 Yes, but for this fight he was still a kronk fighter and had a great team. McClellan was a tremendous talent but a nasty guy, he got angry with Manny Stewart paying too much attention to Tommy Hearns on a comeback and left, maybe McClellan was right but he was a brash young guy (part of why he was a good fighter) he wanted to be boss in the corner so he hired weak willed men instead of proper coaches. Can't put an old head on young shoulders I guess and then fought Nigel Benn. I was sure McClellan would beat him. Most atmospheric fight I have ever seen, when Benn entered the ring to the chimes of Big Ben as ring walk music. Such a shame what happened.

Facts

@COTUS Mike McCallum an Donald Curry who turned out to be a tomato can, fought in the same era as Leonard........he avoided them both......

@COTUS doesn't matter,,,, he avoided them both.

Nah he was huge and Jackson was always a bit chinny. Just a bad matchup for the hawk.

McClellan was 25, not at his peak, he was pretty green actually.

@@mahadkamran5914 Impossible to say... Punchers often peak early. In McClellan's case we'll never know unfortunately.

@@StuartTheunissen The body reaches its physical prime at 30 on average, which would definitely of helped McClellans explosive power, but you are right, its all speculation.

Lay off the proper 12 bud

I've often wondered how many fighters had their careers shortened by the Kronk Gym Wars.

I don't know... I mean I think he might have problems with his head allready, but the blinking isn't what you look for to indicate that as that could be other things - With a lot of sweaty gloves flying in your face, some flies in your eyes easily all the time. I notice fighters with or without head injuries often blink a lot between rounds and after fights, I think because of this.

@@Alexander_Tronstad What you say is true..but Gerald didn't blink in this fashion against Jackson..it began after that fight

@@6412mars Yeah, true when I watch the way he blinks in this fight it seems something is causing him discomfort that he's not letting on. We know what happened so it's easy to understand afterwards I think. But I don't know if you can deduce on the spot exactly why someone would blink like that other than to they try to cope with a general pain, maybe a headache, which wouldn't be crazy to experience during a fight.

Yes mate

I keep seeing these sort of comments. I guess there might have been damage caused before the Benn fight that never truly healed, maybe, making the blood clot more likely. However, the blinking in the benn fight was due to a blood clot. And that's the thing, if the blood clot happened beforehand, he wouldn't have even made it to the Benn fight. And so I am not really sure what people think they are seeing.

leadbelly123 bloodclots can be there for years getting worse and then can randomly rupture. By all accounts McClellan was showing signs as far back as the Late eighties

@Koraun The one on youtube Gerald was beating toney in a sparring match. In fact, there have been accounts of Gerald knocking out Toney in a sparring match. Gerald probably overtrained. One thing for sure, he rarely played defense in his fights....

The usual BS of Americans refusing to believe facts. McClellan had no health issues before the Benn fight. Benn was just too much for him and that's the facts.

Poor promoting?

Yes it was an undercard.

One of the hardest punching contests in middleweight history.

was all about the heavyweights in the 90's

@@garrettohyeah7365 came here to say that.

Both kronk fighters