Gerald McClellan was brain damaged. During a fight against Benin McClellan went into a coma. When he woke up he was deaf, blind and brain damaged. A friend of McClellan, Roy Jones, refuses to visit McClellan until he gives up boxing because it is too hard to see what happens when your luck runs out.
This is similar to Cameron because he is also brain damaged and the boys find it difficult to visit Cameron because the thought of being injured in the same way frightens them.
Cameron shows the darker side of boxing in a way that does not glamorise it, as many films about boxing do.
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