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Jack McCormack (Boxer)

Jack McCormack (born 16 March 2004) is an Irish Amateur boxer from Dublin, Ireland and trains out of Crumlin Boxing Club in Crumlin, Dublin. McCormack is trained by boxing coaches such as Philip Sutcliffe Sr., Bra Brady and Aaron Dempsey. McCormack has fought in a number of boxing exhibitions, most recently Crumlin Boxing Clubs Annual Christmas Boxing show (4 December 2021).

Early Life
Jack McCormack was first introduced to combat sport when started karate in Harold's Cross in 2013 at the age of 9. Jack quit karate a few years later and picked up combat sports again in the form of mma. Jack started mma in SBG in September 2017 and this is where his love of fighting began. While Jack was doing mma, a few months later in January 2018 he was introduced to boxing and began training both sports at the same time and was training 5 days a week. At this time in Jacks life he was only 14 and played football, mma and boxing and was still in school so he needed to balance sport with school so he quit football and mma and stuck to boxing.

Boxing
Since McCormack is yet to make his Amateur debut he has not had any official fights but he has fought in a number of boxing exhibitions. McCormack has not been able to fight in the amateur scene since 2020 due to covid restrictions leaving him with an untouched amateur record. However, McCormack has had plenty of experience over the years sparring amateur and professional fighters. Jack was a sparring partner for undefeated professional muy thai fighter Darragh Smyth Byrne, more commonly known as "Baba Chimp" during his camp to fight Mikey Rizzo who he beat via split decision.