BOXING: Barney vows to land crown.Matthew Barney barney - In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to fred as bar is to foo. That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first metasyntactic variable will often use "barney" second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. admits he faces the toughest task of his career tonight when he bids for the European light-heavyweight title in Germany.The Southampton man meets local hero Thomas Ulrich in Riesa in a fight which has twice previously been postponed at late notice. Barney has campaigned mostly at domestic super-middleweight level and starts as a massive outsider Outsider often refers to one identified as on the periphery of social norms, one living or working apart from mainstream society, or one observing a group from the outside, as used in:
Barney said: "Ulrich is a class above all the other fighters I have boxed and is definitely world-class. But I believe he may be struggling to make the weight. and I am ready to take advantage." |
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