Haunted!

Tuesday 1:00 a.m.

                           Got out of bed because I was feeling a bit haunted by this bit I watched on youtube about Gerald McClellan this morning, the boy who had the brain haemorrhage whilst fighting Nigel Benn in 2005. 

                            I watched all these super middleweight fights on the telly in those days. Two of those that I watched resulted in horrible injuries. They were on prime time on Saturday nights. You could have been watching these with your kids. What is the matter with that man, daddy? Why isn't he getting up?

                           I'm going to watch the fight again. Gerald McClellan was four to one on to beat Nigel Benn. And maybe the fight was only going to last two rounds, and maybe that's why Gerald McClellan had in that weird gumshield which, apparently, only American footballers wear. For fast, explosive movement. Not any good for the long haul. How can you be a world champion and not have a decent gutta percha gumshield? 

                          You could see the way the boy went down on one knee and took the count that he wasn't right. The blinking. No way was Nigel Benn winning that fight. Anyway, the boy is blind now and eighty percent deaf and getting looked after by his sisters.No insurance maybe. Don't be poor in America. 

                          Anyway, I'm going to watch the fight now. The boy was beautiful until he walked into that ring.
Later
        Maybe I forgot how unremitting Nigel Benn was in that fight.