Barry McGuigan
Finbar Patrick "Barry" McGuigan MBE is an Irish boxing promoter and former professional boxer. Born in Clones, County Monaghan, McGuigan represented both Northern Ireland and Ireland as an amateur. Nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, he held the WBA and lineal featherweight titles from 1985 to 1986.
Background
- Born in
- Monaghan
- Awards
- 🏆 International Boxing Hall of Fame🏆 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award🏆 Member of the Order of the British Empire🏆 WBA World Featherweight Champion🏆 The Ring World Featherweight Champion
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown firstWorks & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1961
Born
Birth
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Barry's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Barry's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Barry McGuigan is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent tempe…"
— Babe Ruth"Sport, in general, tends to be a good decade behind the rest of society in terms of talking about these iss…"
— Matthew Mitcham"If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon t…"
— Phil Brown (footballer)"There is no god, and the cage wasn't 30 feet."
— Phil Brooks"There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I …"
— Johnny Weir"With the old ideal of liberty there was a great and urgent passion for freedom of opinion and freedom of sp…"
— James Bryce
