Barry Michael vs. Greg Haugen.

I'm not sure what he does other than the commentary. Bit of personal training maybe

The only bombs at the Lockridge fight were thrown by Rocky (ironically the poor bugger is in a bad way these days while Barry still has all his marbles)

Barry suffered from what a lot of our fighters suffered years ago....lack of connections to get them title fights. I'm not sure he would have been a long term titleolder though, there were a lot of top lightweights on the world stage in the early 80's

 

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Would be great, man....
I´ll watch his fight with Carter tonight.....

 

I was down under in '81 and took in his fight with Dave McCabe. He was a nice little fighter, but I would have to go with Haugen on a decision in a very entertaining fight.

Scartissue

 

He's doing alright, still involved in the boxing and promoting. I was talking to him and Frank Ropis only last month.

 

Tell you what though, Barry almost singlehandedly kept the sport alive in the dark days of the very early 80's before Fenech and Ellis came along. He did it mainly with his mouth, couldn't shut him up

 

Barry talked his way into a shot at Ellis with his big mouth (even though they were mates) and really did a psych job on him. He called Lester a baby, a fraud and a pretty boy which Lester was not and said he hadn't paid his dues. The thing was Baz hadn't made 130 in years and Lesters camp thought if by some miracle he made weight, Lester would be fighting an empty shell.

That's the thing with Barry, he's smart.

He consulted a top nutritionist, shed the weight but kept his strength and endurance and then was just too tough for Lester on the night.

Barry did a similar number on a good young fighter ( and a Commonwelth champ too from memory) called Greame Brooke. Instead Barry kept going on about how he and Brooke were great mates and like brothers and how hard it would be for them to fight each other until Greames camp had to say they weren't actually mates at all and Barry was just trying to sap their mans fighting spirit. It worked though and Barry beat a very subdued and completely mentally confused Brooke when they met.

I like Barry Michael's style a lot.

 

One thing's for sure is that Barry is in much better shape than Alphonse Gangitano.
Alphonse took involuntary redundancy with a retirement package of 3 bullets to the back of the head.:good

 

i take haugen by UD in a exciting fight 9 rounds to 5 with 1 even

 

Very good fight ! :shock:
Both guys with a high workrate....Carter was a good surprise to me....

R1 – Carter
R2- Carter
R3- Barry
R4- Barry
R5- Barry
R6 –Barry
R7- Barry
R8-Carter
R9- Barry
R10- Barry

7-3 Barry IMO.....

 

I had it a draw..tough fight to score though.

Carter would come out like freight train at the start of the round and literally punch himself out on Barry's head...then Baz would capitalize and comeback at the end of the round.

An amazing show of chin from Michael...he was one tough cookie.

 

Rounds 5, 6 and 7 were extremely close ! I loved Michael body punches and Carter´s uppercut....

 

Does anyone have any idea how Michael was stopped against Lennox Blackmoore? Had to be cuts?