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It’s being reported that he’s passed away.

Very sad news.

Terrible news. Giant figure in Manchester boxing across the decades. RIP

RIP. Seemed one of the good ones.

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022, 17:05 RIP. Seemed one of the good ones.

Yep. He wasn’t a brave cornerman which was always fine by me.

It's true. Rest easy Brian and thank you.

589555 wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022, 17:14 It's true. Rest easy Brian and thank you.

It was forum talk from the likes of yourself my assumption was largely based on.

Rip

Sad news, RIP

A real British boxing legend !

Brian stands up as one of the greatest trainers this country has ever produced. I can still see him racing into the ring to congratulate Pat Barrett after Barrett had poleaxed Tony Willis with a brilliant left hook to win the British light-welterweight title in 1989. Barrett was Brian's first British champion and he wouldn't be his last. RIP, Brian.

bennie wrote: ↑26 Jan 2022, 05:09 Brian stands up as one of the greatest trainers this country has ever produced. I can still see him racing into the ring to congratulate Pat Barrett after Barrett had poleaxed Tony Willis with a brilliant left hook to win the British light-welterweight title in 1989. Barrett was Brian's first British champion and he wouldn't be his last. RIP, Brian.

Michael Gomez, Michael Jennings and David Barnes are his other British Champs. I think he'd retired before Scott Quigg won his. Any I've missed?

589555 wrote: ↑26 Jan 2022, 05:41

bennie wrote: ↑26 Jan 2022, 05:09 Brian stands up as one of the greatest trainers this country has ever produced. I can still see him racing into the ring to congratulate Pat Barrett after Barrett had poleaxed Tony Willis with a brilliant left hook to win the British light-welterweight title in 1989. Barrett was Brian's first British champion and he wouldn't be his last. RIP, Brian.

Michael Gomez, Michael Jennings and David Barnes are his other British Champs. I think he'd retired before Scott Quigg won his. Any I've missed?

Not a British Champion, but a WBC one: The Reaper Man.

RIP Brian Hughes - yes always seemed a lovely man and a great coach.

RIP Brian.

RIP Brian.

Hell of a nice bloke with a cracking sense of humour.

Wasn't he Danny Williams' trainer for a while?

Brian also trained an outstanding fighter in Eddie Smith, who kayoed Roy Gumbs and licked Tony Sibson at the Albert Hall just months before Sibson destroyed Frankie Lucas to win the British middleweight title. Lance Williams is another of his fighters, a man who outpointed the great Ken Buchanan at Wembley and also outscored Najib Daho. Brian developed Tunde Foster from scratch, a brilliant southpaw who moved to New York and gatecrashed the world lightweight rankings in the late 1980s. Matthew Hall won the Commonwealth light-middleweight title under Brian. Kenny Webber held double British champion Pat Thomas to a 10-round draw with Brian in the 1970s...


P.S. Lance Williams lost his boxing licence due to eye problems, gave it a few years and came back as a fighter by the name of Tony Dore up in Scotland and won several fights. Paddy Byrne eventually recognised him and Williams was fined heavily by the Board, as was his Scottish manager Alex Morrison.

always looked after his lads and put the safety of his fighters first. RIP.

RIP Brian Hughes.

A true boxing man. Besides everything he did in the sport as a mentor and trainer, the books he co-authored on Hearns and Hagler are brilliant.

maverick23 wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022, 17:13

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022, 17:05 RIP. Seemed one of the good ones.

Yep. He wasn’t a brave cornerman which was always fine by me.

I'd prefer to call him compassionate. Brian knew his fighters better than they knew themselves. He knew when it was the right time to pull his fighters out

A throw back to the old mancunian greats. He was a boxing historian in his own right, re-read his book on Jock McAvoy not long ago.