47) Steve Collins Lost SD 12: UK Fight Commentary TV -
v Steve Collins II 9 September 1995 WBO Super-Middleweight Cork, Ireland [r1] … Collins almost running across the ring … right hand … Sharp left jab by Eubank … [r2] … A lot of the work is pretty untidy … Good left hook from Eubank … [r3] … [Collins] starting to get through … Collins’ workrate is prodigious … [r4] … Growing confidence about Steve Collins … finding the target … Right uppercut [Eubank] … Collins’ round … [r5] … Better work on the counter [Eubank] … just the single jab [Eubank] … breathing heavily … [Collins] workrate is fantastic … It’s all Collins [McGuigan] … [r6] … Collins piling up the points … [r7] … Collins has hardly taken a backward step … Eubank starting to get his jab working … A cut by the right eye of Collins … [r8] … [Collins] is winning it … good work … looking more tired … [r9] … Collins in a huge lead … good work … fighting like a warrior … [r10] … Eubank is going for broke … now he’s stepped off again … cleaner punching … [r11] … Collins has looked the hungrier fighter … Cleaner work is coming from Eubank … [r12] … Collins is taking a lot … Eubank now getting hit … still finding Eubank’s chin. [114-115 Eubank, 115-113 Collins, 115-113] UK Sky TV commentary
50) Joe Calzghe Lost Points 12: UK Fight Commentary TV -
v Joe Calzaghe 11 October 1997 WBO Super-Middleweight Sheffield England [r1] … A left hand puts Eubank on the floor! … Calzaghe is working him over … in some trouble … [r2] … Right hand from Eubank … Big left from Calzaghe … super confident … [r3] … The birth of a new star … left hand … nice uppercuts … [r4] … Left hand: big shot Calzaghe … fast hands … He’s beginning to club Eubank around … A busier Eubank … [r5] … Calzaghe won’t give Eubank a second … Good left hand from Eubank … countering … Big [Calzaghe] left and a right … [r6] … The young man is the boss … Left hand and right uppercut from Eubank … straight right … What a fight … superb … Straight left hand [Calzaghe] … right hand and another left hook … [r7] … Punch for punch trade-off … Big right from Eubank … He would have taken that round … [r8] … Good body shots from Eubank … Calzaghe will not be dominated … another right hand … Calzaghe big lead … Good body shots from Eubank … Calzaghe is still winging away … [r9] … The eager Calzaghe … right hand … clubbing Eubank around … good left hand … [r10] … That has to be a knockdown … [r11] … Calzaghe: in the big money league … [r12] … Calzaghe still got that bounce in his step … Calzaghe has come of age … All the work coming from Calzaghe. UK Sky TV commentary
[8.7] NIGEL BENN 48-42(35)-5-1 [Super-Middleweight & Middleweight]: Nigel Benn - Daily Telegraph - The Fight of Their Lives TV - Fight Commentary TV - Reg Gutteridge - ITV Co-Commentator - Four Kings 2024 -
All of my career I was addicted to drugs. Nigel Benn
I couldn’t go in a ring knowing that I’ve taken steroids because then I know I would have known a cheat ... I’ve never taken any Anabolic steroids. Nigel Benn
Boxing World Steps in to Help McClellan: Benn v McClellan remains one of the most dramatic, exciting title fights in boxing history. The ring warriors battered each other almost to death in from of 12,000 spectators at the London Arena, with 13 million more watching on television. The World Boxing Council super-middleweight title fight’s tragic consequences are a reminder of the dangers every fighter faces, and the poverty it can lead to.
Today, Gerald McClellan is deaf, blind and consigned to a wheelchair with permanent brain damage …
Exactly that is happening in London as a result of the wishes of Nigel Benn. McClellan and Benn will both attend a gala fund-raising dinner at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel tomorrow night – the first time they have met since the fight 12 years ago.
Forty-two British and world champions are attending the event, although Michael Watson, the British fighter who made a recovery from life-saving brain surgery, is away with his family … Daily Telegraph article 25 February 1995
v George McClellan Super-Middleweight, The London Arena 25th February 1995: Gerald McClellan was a two-time world boxing champion by the age of 25. At the Kronk Gym in Detroit he worked with the renowned trainer Emanuel Steward. The Fight of Their Lives, ITV 2011
A former soldier with the taste for the playboy life Nigel Benn embraced every career opportunity. ibid.
By early 1995 Benn was world super-middleweight champion but still seeking critical acclaim. Most had warned the 31-year-old to go nowhere near Gerald McClellan. ibid.
The full extent of McClellan’s injury was still unclear hours after the fight. ibid.
The promoters and their boxers knew the value of victory. ibid.
Inside observers have already noticed something about McClellan. ibid.
By the end of Round 9 experts ringside had McClellan well ahead. ibid.
Eight years after he attempted suicide, Benn and his wife Caroline became born-again Christians. ibid.
In February 2007 Nigel Benn returned to London for his first meeting with Gerald McClellan since the fight. Benn had organised a fund-raising dinner for his former opponent. ibid.
Benn’s tribute to McClellan raised £200,000. ibid.
After one minutes and thirty nine seconds of Round 10 it was all over. ibid.
Twenty years ago he [McClellan] spent his first major pay check on a house where he still lives today. ibid.
It was Nigel Benn’s defining victory. ibid.
On his [Benn] way to the dressing room he collapsed. ibid.
Five weeks after Benn fought McClellan parliament debated a motion calling for the abolition of professional boxing. It was resoundingly defeated. ibid.
This isn’t a fight, it’s a Hollywood script. Fight commentary
He’s blinking a lot, isn’t he? Reg Gutteridge, fight commentary
We have a serious problem in the ring with Gerald McClellan. ibid. ITV co-commentator
During one week in 1993 a global audience of half a billion watched four men from the same city fight for the biggest honours in boxing. Four Kings I: Rise of the Kings, Amazon 2024
I’m dark and proud of it, and I destroy people. ibid. Nigel Benn
Nigel was a surprise. There was no big build up, no outstanding amateur career. He just arrived. ibid. Ambrose Mendy
29th April 1990 Atlantic City: Benn v DeWitt, Middleweight title fight. ibid. caption
I really burnt the candle at both ends. ibid. Nigel Benn
Everything about Chris Eubank is a salesman’s dream. ibid. Nelson
Do it with style, majesty and grace. ibid. Eubank
We had never seen two black athletes grabbing the headlines like this. ibid. Nelson
18th November 1990, Birmingham: Benn v Eubank, Middleweight title fight. ibid. caption
Storms, gales, hurricanes of criticism. ibid. Eubank
Who can pull it off? There’s no-one better than Michael Watson. Four Kings II: The Battle of Britain, Nelson
We all knew something wasn’t right. ibid. Benn re Michael Watson
In the middleweight division, after two years of working his way up the rankings, Nigel Benn, finally he had another title shot. ibid.
This is going to be the biggest week in Boxing: Lewis v Bruno, Heavyweight; Eubank v Benn, Middleweight. ibid.
9th October 1993, Manchester: Eubank v Benn II, Super-Middleweight title fight. ibid.
115-113 Eubank; 114-113 Benn; 114-114 even, a draw. ibid.
Can we ever get this again? Four Kings III: On the Ropes, Nelson
Come 1994 Britain ruled the boxing world. ibid.
I was only there for the money. My mind wasn’t right. ibid. Benn, vs McClellan
Over the next 14 months, after suffering defeats, Benn, Bruno & Eubank all retired. ibid. caption
I was sectioned three, four weeks ago. Four Kings VI: Echoes of the Past, Eubank
Addicted Boxer Benn Tries To Take Own Life. ibid. headline
Since retiring, Eubank has moved to Louisiana where he’s an honorary marshal in the local police department. ibid. Eubank
They paid a personal price for success. ibid. Nelson