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Johnson, saying it was he who should
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magazine, Benn claimed McClellan was the best all-round fighter he had ever boxed, saying "he had an incredible knockout ratio and he was a prolific puncher. There was a mile between him and anyone else", and shortly before the 20th anniversary, said the fight was a "career highlight".
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Johnson, "What the fuck happened? I got knocked clean out, didn't I?", to which Johnson replied: "You didn't get knocked out. You went down to one knee and you walked back to the corner and you quit".
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for the financial support he offered the McClellans in the years that followed. Jones Jr. said he offered the support as "nobody else even cares pretty much about how Gerald is doing from the boxing world". Photojournalist Teddy
Blackburn published a book titled
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Bradley Stone, an anaesthetist and paramedics were on hand to give immediate medical attention to him by placing him in a neck brace and giving him oxygen. Both fighters were soon rushed to the nearby
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and Sergio Liendo, in which Liendo was knocked unconscious by Hamed – despite 13 million people having watched the Benn–McClellan fight, it would prove to be the final fight ITV would air for almost four years, when they aired
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said "How many more cases do we need of boxers playing roulette with their brains before the government and the
British Boxing Board of Control take seriously what we say about the cumulative danger that boxing does?"
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described it as "the strangest knockdown I've seen". Shortly after, Benn connected with another right, and again McClellan dropped to a knee, this time allowing Asaro to count him out. Pacheco's fellow commentator
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864:Raissman, Bob (28 February 1995).
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