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Pat Barrett

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I was a fan of his back in the day. We had a decent batch of light welters over a decade of so.

Best of luck to him.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ng-9322636
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Good fighter. Enjoyed watching him.
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From interviews seems to put fighters first and see things from their perspective
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I used to go & watch Barrett a lot back in day.

Exciting fighter with great power.

It's good that he's sorted himself out & is keeping a foothold in the game.
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Pat produced one of the greatest ko's i have ever seen against Calamati in Italy,absolutely flattened the poor fella
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I enjoyed his career and his losses were to pretty good fighters. Retired quite early though-did he have an injury? I still felt he could have gone on to do more really.
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bigjack wrote:Pat produced one of the greatest ko's i have ever seen against Calamati in Italy,absolutely flattened the poor fella
Chilling is not the word.

It was Julian Jacksoneque!
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When i first saw the title i misread it and thought it was the bloke who shot billy the kid.
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My mate Darren Rhodes ex pro introduced me to Pat few years ago. I had followed his career so was aware of what he had achieved. I was expecting him to be up his arse but whst a nice fella he was actually interested in the bout I was taking at the time. Even though I where a journeyman.
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Terry Dooley wrote:
Broomhall wrote:I enjoyed his career and his losses were to pretty good fighters. Retired quite early though-did he have an injury? I still felt he could have gone on to do more really.
He lost his love for the sport after trying to rejuvenate his career under John Davenport. Brian Hughes had already advised him to call it a day. Here's a catch up I did with him last year: http://www.BS.com/pat-barrett- ... ore--86630.
I enjoyed reading that.

It took 5 years to get his trainers licence ? - why was that ? (his criminal record ?).

I still don't like his nephews nickname though - the Black Flash sounds great, but the Brown Flash sounds (literally like) shit !
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is it true he taught Ricky Hatton to throw the left hook to the body? sure i read that somewhere, probably one of your pieces if so, Tel... ?
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bripez wrote: I still don't like his nephews nickname though - the Black Flash sounds great, but the Brown Flash sounds (literally like) poo !
Sounds like something a 3 year old would say.

"Mummy, I did a brown flash in my pants"
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Loved watching Barrett as a young un,exciting fighter.. see a recent pic of him with Maurice Core & Ensley Bingham,he looks huge compared to them&i don't mean fat...
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Taansend wrote:
bripez wrote: I still don't like his nephews nickname though - the Black Flash sounds great, but the Brown Flash sounds (literally like) poo !
Sounds like something a 3 year old would say.

"Mummy, I did a brown flash in my pants"

I just can't understand how they think Brown Flash is a good nickname, it's a total disaster.
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tijuana1 wrote:My mate Darren Rhodes...
How is Darren doing these days? Really nice lad. Hope he's good.
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Terry Dooley wrote:
Broomhall wrote:I enjoyed his career and his losses were to pretty good fighters. Retired quite early though-did he have an injury? I still felt he could have gone on to do more really.
He lost his love for the sport after trying to rejuvenate his career under John Davenport. Brian Hughes had already advised him to call it a day. Here's a catch up I did with him last year: http://www.BS.com/pat-barrett- ... ore--86630.

Good read :TU:
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Counter-puncher wrote:is it true he taught Ricky Hatton to throw the left hook to the body? sure i read that somewhere, probably one of your pieces if so, Tel... ?
I'm sure I read that Pat dropped Ricky hard with a body hook when he was European champ and Hatton was a teenage amateur.
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Syntax Error wrote:
bigjack wrote:Pat produced one of the greatest ko's i have ever seen against Calamati in Italy,absolutely flattened the poor fella
Chilling is not the word.

It was Julian Jacksoneque!



I watched that fight again today,Calamati was in bad shape and out for 7 minutes.His corner men were desperately trying to remove his mouthpiece but he kept biting them.
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Sklar wrote:
tijuana1 wrote:My mate Darren Rhodes...
How is Darren doing these days? Really nice lad. Hope he's good.
I saw him box on a couple of shows

Terry- thanks, thought I had picked it up from one of your piece's.
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Darren Rhodes is doing really well he works at the Hunslet club full time. The club plays a massive part to society within the area. Boxing rugby football dancing as well as looking after the kids that have been expelled. Rhodes trains a pro Terry broadbent. He traind me for 3 yrs as a pro introduced me to collyhurst gym in Manchester. Daz was a very skilful well schooled boxer. He looked like Robin Reid body wise ripped. Great lad Daz and trainer very honest straight up person
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:TU: That's great to hear, thank you.
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I still see Daz on the circuit all the tine. Very accomplished boxer. Pat looks massive, too. Been hammering the weights.
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