‘Wee’ Paddy Barnes as soon as dropped a not-so-small Irish rugby worldwide so heavy he threw up.
Again in 2012 plenty of the Excessive Efficiency squad joined the Irish Rugby Squad for some coaching at Carton Home.
The likes of Olympic medal winners Barnes, Kenneth Egan and Michael Conlan had been among the many boxers had been current alongside Declan Kidney’s Irish group.
Reminiscing concerning the classes on the Free State podcast to Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning, Johnny Sexton recalled an incident had been two-time Olympic bronze medal winner, Barnes did some harm.
The Belfast favorite landed a physique shot mid-shadow-boxing prompting an unnamed rugby star to fall to the ground and throw up.
“We had the Olympic boxing group are available and we’d been out the night time earlier than, type of group bonding two weeks out out from an enormous worldwide,” defined Sexton.
“We’d been out and to begin with their coach was shocked. They wouldn’t drink for a 12 months, six months, two years in all probability earlier than an Olympic occasion, however he stated to us ‘we’d love to point out you a bit of coaching’.
“Paddy Barnes was there, (Michael) Conlan, Katie Taylor wasn’t there on the day, however that they had like in all probability ten boxers there so anyway they obtained ten volunteers from the rugby group to go in and begin doing this.
“A number of of the lads had been out the night time earlier than, however then they had been shadow boxing and Paddy Barnes hit one of many lads within the guts and he spewed all over the place. It was completely good.”
