Gerald McClellan was boxing’s hardest hitter. Thirty years ago his world went dark.

Nothing in this small, silent living room hits harder than a picture. Hanging on a wall in the corner, above the recliner, the old painting keeps vigil over a blind fighter who has never seen it.

 

Perhaps Gerald McClellan doesn’t even know it’s there. But he has been told parts of its story, many times, and the details usually drift to unreachable places.