Tough yes but alot of those English-Carribean lads were talented but their coaching was rubbish and they couldn’t defend themselves.
It was tough in the sense that they had to fight out of that shit to be seen by the whites and the promoters to eventually pick up decent coaching.
Unfortunately alot of damage both physically and technically was done by then and in extreme cases it cost them serious health issues but less importantly they didn’t make it at the true elite level. Which is a pity because they were awesome.
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McClellan was American. Are you on about Benn? He got to walk away at least. I gather he’s a born-again type now.
Benn was tough, but tightened up his defence and boxed much smarter after being put through the ropes. McClellan fought very upright but was used to blowing lads away and he couldn’t adapt. Benn was leaping in from his crouched stance and catching him with hooks. That said, McClellan was probably already brain-damaged by then.
Benn has an 18 yr old son trying for the Olympics now
Benns constant punches to the back of his head didn’t help plus all the Paul mcKenna shit which Collins uses to psych out eubank who was emotionally fragile after nearly killing Watson,there were some great fights in the 90s with eubank Collins Benn and Watson ray close also gets a mention having been robbed against eubank and all for free on ITV
There’s a great documentary to be made about all those fights in the 90s,every couple of months there seemed to be a great fight on,didn’t eubank v Benn sell out old Trafford, great times for fight fans
Speaking of bikes, I still laugh when I think of Eubank’s entrance for the first fight against Collins.
There was standing room only in the local that night and there were deafening howls of derision from the whole pub as Eubank sat for what seemed an eternity on a Harley Davidson.
