Paddy Fitzpatrick (right) trains boxer George Groves during a public work-out in November 2013
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LIKE the vast majority who follow boxing, I first became aware of Paddy Fitzpatrick in the lead-up to the first Carl Froch-George Groves fight.
This was back in 2013, when, injecting even more drama into this hugely anticipated contest with just nine weeks to go came the stunning announcement that Groves and his long-time trainer, Adam Booth, had split.
In Groves’s corner for this the biggest fight of his career to date would now be Fitzpatrick, a hitherto relatively unknown trainer based in Swindon.
The outcome of the Shakespearean modern-day classic, where legacy was reborn, continues to resonate in the mind of Morning Star boxing writer JOHN WIGHT
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