Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Long Island has a great boxing tradition.
The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.
I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.
Boxing is a noble sport.
Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.