Other Recognition
- Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame
- Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005
- Fought in Ring Magazine's 1986 Fight of the Year
- Title character in the 8-bit computer game, Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing
- Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1985
- Honoured in an Irish ballad song released in 1984 entitled Clones Cyclone written by Johnny McCauley and sung by Big Tom
- The popular German musician and composer Udo Lindenberg dedicated his song "Jonny Boxer" to Barry McGuigan (1986)
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