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was being hurt by a jab, and that when he noticed McClellan blinking during the Benn fight in the same way, Salmaci was immediately aware that McClellan was in serious trouble. Also notable in hindsight was McClellan complaining of getting regular headaches after his first fight with Julian Jackson
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publicly appealed for donations to a trust fund set up in McClellan's name in order to help his sister Lisa maintain his 24-hour care. In July 2017, McClellan took a turn for the worse, and underwent surgery to repair a malfunctioning colon. McClellan now uses a colostomy bag, and incurs colostomy
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in five rounds in May 1993, after McClellan had survived some brutally hard punches from Jackson in the second and third rounds. McClellan defended the WBC title three times, all first round stoppages, including a rematch with Jackson. In the fall of 1994, McClellan separated from his long-term
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ran an article about the fight and its outcome one week after the fight. McClellan's family flew to London to be by his side, and he was later flown back to his home country. He has recently recovered some ability to walk with the assistance of a cane, but he has not recovered his eyesight. In
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thrown by Salmaci, McClellan started to blink hard and the session had to be stopped. McClellan initially claimed that he was thumbed, but later admitted to Salmaci in the locker room that he was in fact seriously hurt. Salmaci said that he found it strange that a fighter with McClellan's
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Nigel Benn himself has also helped to raise funds for McClellan's treatment, and the two men would meet again for the first time since their bout at a fundraiser held in London on February 24, 2007. Several items were auctioned off at the event and a total of £200,000 was raised.
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McClellan had emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. He spent eleven days in a coma and was found to have suffered extensive brain damage. He lost his eyesight, the ability to walk unassisted, and was reported as being 80 percent deaf.
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In a savage bout, McClellan knocked Benn out of the ring in round one and scored another knockdown in round eight, but each time Benn was able to work his way back into the fight. Throughout the fight Gerald received several
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rated McClellan No. 27 on their list of the "100 Greatest Punchers Of All Time". In 2007, McClellan was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in California, not to be confused with the more widely recognized
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in May 1993. In the fight, McClellan's chin resisted Jackson's formidable punching power before McClellan won the fight in round 5, but Jackson's punches may have done some damage to McClellan's brain, such as
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addition to being blind, his short-term memory was also profoundly affected. His three sisters, particularly Lisa McClellan, are responsible for his care. In a 2011 documentary broadcast by
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Known for his formidable punching power and one of the highest 1st-round-knockout ratios in the history of boxing, McClellan was dubbed "a miniature
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fighter, claimed later in an interview that he had sparred with McClellan over a year before the Benn fight, and that after McClellan was hit by a
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in London on February 25, 1995. The fight was watched by an estimated 17 million people on television and 10,300 paying spectators.
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title from 1993 to 1995. McClellan was forced to retire from boxing after a severe brain injury suffered during
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As an amateur, McClellan was a four-time Wisconsin Golden Gloves champion, 1984–1987, competing mostly in the
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McClellan has been the honoree at numerous banquets and award ceremonies, and fellow boxing world champion
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supply expenses of about 500 dollars a month. Former world light middleweight champion
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McClellan moved up in weight to challenge WBC super middleweight champion
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Sportspeople from the Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois
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Index

Gerald McLellan
Freeport, Illinois
Middleweight
Super middleweight
Orthodox
professional boxer
middleweight
WBO
WBC
his final fight in 1995
super middleweight
Nigel Benn
Mike Tyson
Don King
The Ring magazine
International Boxing Hall of Fame
Canastota
junior middleweight
National Golden Gloves
Little Rock, Arkansas
U.S. Olympic Festival
Houston, Texas
Thomas Tate
U.S. National Championships
Buffalo, New York
Tim Littles
U.S. Olympic Festival
Raleigh, North Carolina
International Center of the Broadmoor
Colorado Springs, Colorado

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