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Maybe Barry will be able to confirm, to which end of the worm do you attach the hook?

Beltane wrote:Maybe Barry will be able to confirm, to which end of the worm do you attach the hook?

No accomplished fisherman only lucky ones.

Beltane wrote:Maybe Barry will be able to confirm, to which end of the worm do you attach the hook?

A worm has only two orifices.
Which one do you think Barry would put it through?

I am on the outside of the fight game. Not privvy to all the goings on but have been to three or four of his nights at flemington and have enjoyed them (from the cheap seats)
The couple of times I have contacted Barry via his mobile phone he has been polite and helpful. I don't share his high opinion of a certain Ex Rugby League player but just cos I don't agree with him doesn't make him an arse hole as some have suggested here.
I think he is a good bloke and woul love to have a beer with him sometime. I reckon he'd have some stories.....

I like Barry, has lot of respect for the fighters, and tries to make each fight seem interesting, even if only between two bums. Yes, does get names, weight classes wrong, and does hype up Mundine a bit too much at times. End of the day, you can argue that any commentator is shitty

Barry is not the only commentator looking after his job, he would give the present crop of fighters[ same weight] in Australia a lesson,luckily his outside the square, all the best

Grant wrote:I am on the outside of the fight game. Not privvy to all the goings on but have been to three or four of his nights at flemington and have enjoyed them (from the cheap seats)
The couple of times I have contacted Barry via his mobile phone he has been polite and helpful. I don't share his high opinion of a certain Ex Rugby League player but just cos I don't agree with him doesn't make him an arse hole as some have suggested here.
I think he is a good bloke and woul love to have a beer with him sometime. I reckon he'd have some stories.....

He odes overdo it on that certain ex NRL player. But I agree with all your comments.

TrainInsane wrote:

bollox wrote:Barry was a pretty good fisherman during his career. Put the line (his mouth) in the water and before long it was time to reel 'em in

That much is true. But rumor has it Michael is genuinely a very accomplished angler.

Probably be more entertaining than that God bothering clown Ettingshausen.

Grant wrote:I am on the outside of the fight game. Not privvy to all the goings on but have been to three or four of his nights at flemington and have enjoyed them (from the cheap seats)
The couple of times I have contacted Barry via his mobile phone he has been polite and helpful. I don't share his high opinion of a certain Ex Rugby League player but just cos I don't agree with him doesn't make him an arse hole as some have suggested here.
I think he is a good bloke and woul love to have a beer with him sometime. I reckon he'd have some stories.....

I remember seeing him on one of those gangland docos on foxtel awhile back, saying how he got jumped by alphonese gangitano(sp) or something like that. Crazy stuff

The Herald Sun mentions a bit about Barry's near fatal run-in:

He (Gangitano) was a big punter but not a successful one, and it was rumoured he’d lost a packet when Barry Michael took the IBF super featherweight title from Lester Ellis in 1985.

Two years later Gangitano saw Michael having a quiet drink at Lazar’s in King St. Gangitano bit him and his crew broke his nose. The beating effectively ended Michael’s career.

"I was lucky to get out of the place in one piece,'' Michael later told the Herald Sun

Gangitano was a lunatic. Being in the same suburb as him was dangerous.

Brute wrote:Gangitano was a lunatic. Being in the same suburb as him was dangerous.

Gangitano was a backer of Lester from memory and he was pissed Michael wouldn't give Lester a rematch after taking his title. Michael and Ellis had some colorful people in their corners Gangitano being just one.

TrainInsane wrote:

Brute wrote:Gangitano was a lunatic. Being in the same suburb as him was dangerous.

Gangitano was a backer of Lester from memory and he was pissed Michael wouldn't give Lester a rematch after taking his title. Michael and Ellis had some colorful people in their corners Gangitano being just one.

..if you like to describe a psychopath as colourful...

Brute wrote:

TrainInsane wrote:

Brute wrote:Gangitano was a lunatic. Being in the same suburb as him was dangerous.

Gangitano was a backer of Lester from memory and he was pissed Michael wouldn't give Lester a rematch after taking his title. Michael and Ellis had some colorful people in their corners Gangitano being just one.

..if you like to describe a psychopath as colourful...

That should have read 'colorful'. I left out the inverted commas. No argument from me on Gangitano being a psycho. He definitely was one.

Nobody outside of his family misses him. See if you can get hold of "The Job" by Charlie Bezzina. Charlie was a Detective Sergeant with the Victorian Homicide Squad and had a lot of dealings with Gangitano. Shoots down some myths about him too.

Brute wrote:Nobody outside of his family misses him. See if you can get hold of "The Job" by Charlie Bezzina. Charlie was a Detective Sergeant with the Victorian Homicide Squad and had a lot of dealings with Gangitano. Shoots down some myths about him too.

I've seen and read enough to know there's nothing glamorous or likable about Gangitano. I will chase up a copy of Bezzina's book though. I see it only costs $25 too. Which is a cheap read these days.

$9.99 on IBooks. Just downloaded it will review it soon

Grant wrote:$9.99 on IBooks. Just downloaded it will review it soon

Read it on the weekend and let us know monday

Barry is a great circuit speaker and raconteur, something along the lines of a fishing show would suit him to the ground. I can't understand the hate on here for Baz, obviously from people who've never met him and only ever heard him commentate, I've never switched on the commentary only to find there's also some fighting.

I agree with Dale. Barry is a great bloke. Absolute gentlemen. I cant understand why anyone would think otherwise.

Matt Ropis wrote:I think Barry is a credit to the game.
I can,t stand you and your sh*t talk

Barry had an 11 round war with your young brother Frank back in the 80s, didn't he, Matt? Two tough fighters after the Australian Junior Welter title.