Season 3: #22 Pat Barrett

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Former world title challenger and European champion Pat Barrett is now becoming one of Britain's go-to trainers. The man behind the rise of Zelfa Barrett and Lyndon Arthur was trained and mentored by Brian Hughes and the veteran coach has clearly left his mark on Barrett. Here, Pat recalls the highs and lows of his career – in and out of the ring – and recounts his road to redemption, surviving some bleak times to become and inspiration to his upcoming talents. Boxing Life Stories is now on PATREON. You can get access to research, unseen photographs from Boxing Life Stories, go behind the scenes of the podcast with Tris Dixon and even get some episodes early. You can help support us through another 100 episodes and help us to grow by visiting www.patreon.com/trisdixon Boxing Life Stories is bought to you by HANSON LEE RESOURCING who were voted “The UK's Best Specialist Insurance-Sector Recruitment Firm for 2020” in the Corporate Excellence Awards. ‘Not only do we find the best people, we’ll help you retain them.' Discover more at HansonLee.com’ AND DELCO SAFETY COMPLIANCE, who are a leading provider of professional fire, asbestos, and safety services to businesses nationwide. They offer one expert point of contact for all of your fire, health and safety compliance needs. Find out more at www.delcosafety.co.uk Follow Tris on twitter @trisdixon and instagram @trisdixon @boxing_life_stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Because that's what every fight and needs in life is someone who can reassure them to let them know why they can win a fight.
0:07.4	Don't just say you're gonna win and you're gonna knock them out and you're gonna do that.
0:10.8	Because that's what you want me to do, but how can you reassure me that I can?
0:18.1	Pat Barrett's aim is to be the first man to defeat the great Julio Cesar Chavez.
0:23.3	Yeah.
0:23.8	Was that the goal?
0:24.8	Yeah.
0:25.9	And I know what, at Lightwell's way, I mean, we can never say what happened.
0:30.4	I mean, I've probably a lot of people disagree with me.
0:32.4	It's just like Lyndon going over and beating up the added, everybody disagrees with everything together.
0:37.2	But I really do believe that, at that moment in time, and the way my career was going, I couldn't beat anybody.
0:45.7	This is the way I'm doing, Jay, I'm doing it behind my door with a TV there.
0:49.6	And that's all, I'm not interested in nothing and nobody else.
0:52.5	And that's the way I did it.
0:53.5	I don't need to be out on the landing smoke cigarettes, talking rubbish, you know what I mean?
0:57.8	And what's my next plan when I get out of it?
1:00.5	I mean, I have used it to make my head so solid and so militant and regimental that I knew what I wanted when I come out.
1:10.1	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Christyx.
1:13.6	What happened in the ring after he placed an only good with his child's play compared to that?
1:18.2	Still they're close friends this day?
1:22.5	Couldn't you take a paternalist from his eyes or the sly off his face, couldn't you?
1:26.3	I know.
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