Thread: Classic wars

Evander Holyfield. One of the toughest guys in recent times. This guy has been in some real wars in the Heavyweight division, probably most notably the 3 epics with Riddick Bowe. Maybe the best of them:

One of the fastest paced fights in modern history. The ending is unbelievable.

Thunder Meets Lightning

Surprised this man hasn't featured yet. One of the best pound for pounds of all time IMO.

Originally Posted by Aberlour

Surprised this man hasn't featured yet. One of the best pound for pounds of all time IMO.

Because he avoided six of the greatest fighters of his time Jackson, Mc Cellan, Daruiz, Nunn, Benn and Eubank

How many do you reckon would have beaten him? He would have beaten more than he lost to that's for sure. Fair point though, nobody likes a ducker.

Possibly Micheal Nunn. Collins would have battered him. Anyway it's all conjecture we'll never know as Jones ducked all of them.

^ Really not a fan then.

Na, how'd you guess?

Absolute classic. 15 rounds, three minutes a round, one minute break in between = 45mins of fighting and 15 mins of sheer fear.
A street fight is one punch between two fat cunts pissed out of their brains.

Right, fuck this, back to the reggae. Peace.
Oh and by the way Pryor got fucked up on the sniff. There was rumors has was drinking it in his water bottle during rounds.

One of my favourite fighters to watch James Toney. Skill-set x 10. This is a guy that went up to Heavyweight and stopped Evander Holyfield, ffs.

Also destroyed Michael Nunn and Iran Barkley at Middleweight.


One of his best wars, a total slug-fest with Vassily Jirov at Cruiserweight.

This was a classic boxing "war". Two fearsome punchers knocking the living shit out of each other. Unfortunately, Gerald McClellan never recovered from injuries sustained in this bout. Nigel Benn was never the same fighter afterwards either.

Extremely hard to pick the winner of the fight Wars in this excellent Thread , fairly takes your breath away in this trip down boxing's memory lane , and I have seen all the fights listed before , however as they say always save the best for the last ,for me The McClennan V Benn has to be right up there with the very best ,Hagler V Hearns too was unbelievable ,however for my personally for sheer Courage in the line of fire Benn V McClennan takes some beating ,but all were truly riveting fights and thanks all you posters for some great memories

Originally Posted by kmart

This was a classic boxing "war". Two fearsome punchers knocking the living shit out of each other. Unfortunately, Gerald McClellan never recovered from injuries sustained in this bout. Nigel Benn was never the same fighter afterwards either.

Benn was a proper man. He told his corner when he fought Collins "one more round, this is my last round") Heart of a champion, respect to Nigel Benn, warrior.

Originally Posted by kmart

This was a classic boxing "war". Two fearsome punchers knocking the living shit out of each other. Unfortunately, Gerald McClellan never recovered from injuries sustained in this bout. Nigel Benn was never the same fighter afterwards either.

Mccllellan got what he needed. Dirty, dog baiting [at][at][at][at].

Nah Rebby IMHO no one merits a lifetime in a wheelchair ,baiting, eyeballing ,mouthing off is unfortunately part and parcel of boxing today ,McLennen was truly a murderous puncher and the scourge of the middleweight division , Benn showed courage above the call of duty beyond a doubt ,it was a great fight no two ways about it ,but as KMart rightly says in Different ways it was to leave a mark on both of their lives forever!

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Nah Rebby IMHO no one merits a lifetime in a wheelchair ,baiting, eyeballing ,mouthing off is unfortunately part and parcel of boxing today ,McLennen was truly a murderous puncher and the scourge of the middleweight division , Benn showed courage above the call of duty beyond a doubt ,it was a great fight no two ways about it ,but as KMart rightly says in Different ways it was to leave a mark on both of their lives forever!

Look him up. I'm taking Irish now and he was a dag baiter and he got what he deserved. He was a [at][at][at][at].

Men don't fight dogs'. Men fight men.

I'll stand up against anyone. ^ That's not right.

Originally Posted by rebbu

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Nah Rebby IMHO no one merits a lifetime in a wheelchair ,baiting, eyeballing ,mouthing off is unfortunately part and parcel of boxing today ,McLennen was truly a murderous puncher and the scourge of the middleweight division , Benn showed courage above the call of duty beyond a doubt ,it was a great fight no two ways about it ,but as KMart rightly says in Different ways it was to leave a mark on both of their lives forever!

Look him up. I'm taking Irish now and he was a dag baiter and he got what he deserved. He was a [at][at][at][at].

Yes. Seems that McClellan got served with some karma. Guy used to buy old pet dogs from local shelters and set his Pitbulls on them, to keep them "keen".

Fighting for life | Sport | The Observer

This is how Stan saw Gerald and the whole dog thing: 'So he got this black Labrador, just went to the dog shop, told the man, "I need a dog to take care of, I'll take this Labrador home," and the man say to the dog, "Yeah, you got a good home now," and Gerald takes the dog home. He takes the dog down his basement and tapes the Labrador's mouth, takes his pit bull Deuce and says "Get him!" He lets Deuce start eatin' the dog up while he's timing it on a watch, see how long it would take his dog to kill this dog. And I said to Gerald, "Hey, Gerald, this Labrador wouldn't beat Deuce, no way, so why did you tape his mouth shut?" And he said, "Coz I just wanna see how fast my dog would kill him