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'I can't not get emotional' - Barry McGuigan reflects on life and loss 40 years after Pedroza bout

Summary by Extra.ie
Forty years ago, a 24-year-old man from Clones in Co Monaghan, just 5ft6 tall and weighing 8st 13lb 12oz, stepped into the boxing ring in Loftus Road, home of football team Queen’s Park Rangers. There were 27,000 people there to watch him take on Panamanian Eusebio Pedroza, 13,000 of whom had travelled from Ireland, north and south. Back home, in the days before the television viewing audience was fragmented by satellite and streaming options, a…
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Extra.ie broke the news in on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
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