The sweet science shown up for brutal game it is

IT was a Shakespearean tragedy on a canvas and a Saturday night.

And it was hard to watch.

Those of us who stayed up to watch ITV’s documentary about the infamous Nigel Benn-Gerald McClellan fight are thinking about it still. And, you realise as the credits rolled on Monday, the reality of what happened that night on prime time television in 1995 has stayed with the drama’s cast ever since.