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Anyone know what happened to him? Won 3 on the bounce after losing a decision to Prograis then never heard from again. Good lightweight.... Defended WBO belt 5 times and it was a travesty the Crolla fight never happened....same town, same school, both world champions. I always got the feeling it was Crolla side (Gallagher, Hearn) who didn't want that fight as they knew Turbo would be a very tough night.

He was on a seconds course a few months ago.

What's that?

rio wrote: ↑27 Nov 2022, 21:37 Anyone know what happened to him? Won 3 on the bounce after losing a decision to Prograis then never heard from again. Good lightweight.... Defended WBO belt 5 times and it was a travesty the Crolla fight never happened....same town, same school, both world champions. I always got the feeling it was Crolla side (Gallagher, Hearn) who didn't want that fight as they knew Turbo would be a very tough night.

It's a crime that he didn't fight Crolla.

rio wrote: ↑28 Nov 2022, 08:19What's that?

Getting a BBBC license to work corners.

Cheers. Presumed he's retired then. Hope he made enough in his world title reign to live comfortable. Always liked to see fighters with no top AM experience, no big promoter come through the small hall scene and win a world title. Can't think of any other than Terry, Warrington and Fielding (if you count his title as real)

rio wrote: ↑28 Nov 2022, 09:06 Cheers. Presumed he's retired then. Hope he made enough in his world title reign to live comfortable. Always liked to see fighters with no top AM experience, no big promoter come through the small hall scene and win a world title. Can't think of any other than Terry, Warrington and Fielding (if you count his title as real)

Im pretty sure he works full time. I think he did throughout his career.

mickey1975 wrote: ↑28 Nov 2022, 09:57

rio wrote: ↑28 Nov 2022, 09:06 Cheers. Presumed he's retired then. Hope he made enough in his world title reign to live comfortable. Always liked to see fighters with no top AM experience, no big promoter come through the small hall scene and win a world title. Can't think of any other than Terry, Warrington and Fielding (if you count his title as real)

Im pretty sure he works full time. I think he did throughout his career.

think he was a scaffolder but stopped to go full time maybe gone back to that

Pretty sure he plays for Man City now. Saw him on the pitch celebrating with Haaland.

My T Sharp wrote: ↑28 Aug 2023, 03:54 Pretty sure he plays for Man City now. Saw him on the pitch celebrating with Haaland.

Yep
Definitely him.

He’ll get a football banning order for that and a conviction. Never worth it.

I had completely forgotten Flanagan existed. He seems like the forgotten champion of British Boxing. He won the WBO title then had 5 defenses which is a lot more than more feted British world champs. Moved up. Lost twice on points to decent opposition had a few more then just disappeared from boxing.

I’m just wondering why he was never given the big promotional push? He was from Manchester and had that PR friendly story of meeting Ricky Hatton as a kid and saying he’d become world champion.

Anyone know what happened there?

Pretty sure that Flanagan vs. Petrov was the first boxing broadcast in 4K, certainly in the UK.

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 12:59 I had completely forgotten Flanagan existed. He seems like the forgotten champion of British Boxing. He won the WBO title then had 5 defenses which is a lot more than more feted British world champs. Moved up. Lost twice on points to decent opposition had a few more then just disappeared from boxing.

I’m just wondering why he was never given the big promotional push? He was from Manchester and had that PR friendly story of meeting Ricky Hatton as a kid and saying he’d become world champion.

Anyone know what happened there?

I remember he had the reputation as being a bit of a hard watch. Harsh, but he was certainly not fan friendly.

What a career he had, unbeaten at lightweight and when he moved up he only lost to the unbeaten Hooker and a peak Prograis

Was he our most unheralded world champ ever ? The lack of coverage, praise and presumably money he received, in comparison to another Manchester lightweight of that time, Antony Crolla, was scandalous.

That may have been down to just bad luck at being signed to Frank and thereby condemned to fight on the barren wasteland of allegedly.

Always seemed like a decent lad too, top bloke and a top blue. Hope he’s doing well.

Bigdogsnose wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 15:59

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 12:59 I had completely forgotten Flanagan existed. He seems like the forgotten champion of British Boxing. He won the WBO title then had 5 defenses which is a lot more than more feted British world champs. Moved up. Lost twice on points to decent opposition had a few more then just disappeared from boxing.

I’m just wondering why he was never given the big promotional push? He was from Manchester and had that PR friendly story of meeting Ricky Hatton as a kid and saying he’d become world champion.

Anyone know what happened there?

I remember he had the reputation as being a bit of a hard watch. Harsh, but he was certainly not fan friendly.

Yes but Floyd Mayweather is not fan friendly

Shame we didn’t get the Crolla fight.

Would have been made easy today.

Everyone being on DAZN and all that.

Well underrated, then and now. Very very quick feet, and decent skills, just not a lot of power. Hooker was kind of a stylistic nightmare for him (very long reach, decent power, and it was an SD) whilst peak Prograis was very good indeed. A shame he never got a really big night.

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 16:09

Bigdogsnose wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 15:59

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑15 Sep 2026, 12:59 I had completely forgotten Flanagan existed. He seems like the forgotten champion of British Boxing. He won the WBO title then had 5 defenses which is a lot more than more feted British world champs. Moved up. Lost twice on points to decent opposition had a few more then just disappeared from boxing.

I’m just wondering why he was never given the big promotional push? He was from Manchester and had that PR friendly story of meeting Ricky Hatton as a kid and saying he’d become world champion.

Anyone know what happened there?

I remember he had the reputation as being a bit of a hard watch. Harsh, but he was certainly not fan friendly.

Yes but Floyd Mayweather is not fan friendly

Aye, Terry just needed to master beinv enough of a dick that the world wanted him to lose! Worked well for conor too.