FORMER world boxing champion Barry McGuigan explains why, thanks to his friend Phillip Schofield, he now has 20/20 vision.
Aside from suffering many broken bones in his hands which he describes as an “occupational hazard” Barry, who won gold at the 1978 Commonwealth games and became World Boxing Association featherweight champion in 1985, is dismissive of the sport’s brutal reputation.
“People like to point a ?nger at boxing but it has had absolutely no effect on my health,” says the spry 52-year-old from Clones, Co Monaghan, who is now a successful boxing coach and BBC commentator.
“My internal organs have been checked many times. I’ve had brain scans and MRI scans. I have the same intellect I had when I was 19 or 20 if not better because I’ve got more experience. I train, exercise and keep ?t. My health is something I take with great concern.”
Yet despite ?nishing his career in 1989 relatively unscathed and continuing to take care of himself and work hard on his ?tness, age caught up with Barry in a more mundane way as he began to notice that his sight was deteriorating.
“My eyesight started to weaken from the age of 39,” says the dad-of-four, who now lives in Kent with his wife Sandra. “I was flying across the Atlantic a lot and reading loads of statistics in poor light and invariably the muscles around my eyes were affected.
"I was struggling to read, present and coach properly. I started wearing glasses and from then my sight continued to deteriorate quickly.” Continue Reading...
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