Benn v McClellan documentary Mon 5th

[Daniel 7]

He struck me as playing up for the cameras and loving the attention. He didn't really seem ot have any concern for McLellan at all.

[knockers]

The fight was in 95 Knockers!

Hagler/Hearns/Leonard/Duran era?

That wasn't 1995! That's what I was referring to.

[Daniel 7]

Ah sorry. Misread.

[BillobShaisley]

The fight was in 95 Knockers!

Just finished watching it, thought it was a bit superficial really, which is typical of anything ITV do. There was no real depth to the interviews with Benn, it was more focused on "Look how I've changed" from his perspective. The crude comparison between the modest house and Mallorca villa was a bit obvious too.

Its a horrendous story though. I remember there being a fund raiser for McLellan but never realised he got £200,000.

That era for middleweights / super middleweights was awesome though. Eubank, Watson, Benn, Collins in the immediate precursor to Calzaghe. Its never really been as good as that.

Loved it when Benn was a studio guest for an Audley Harrison fight when the BBC had signed him up after he won gold at the Olympics. He said something along the lines of it all being a but rubbish, it not being an occasion and how it was loads better when it was him, Watson and Eubank were on ITV

Not forgetting the yanks of the era too:

Michael Nunn, Roy Jones, Bernard Hopkins, James Toney

Also Mike McCallum, Iran Barkley and a bit lighter but had a pop at the middleweights Marlon Starling.


Not quite Leonard, Hearns, Duran but pretty close!