“I’m fully recovered now from the Covid, and my athletic therapist Craig Reddan has done a brilliant job on the shoulder so the supporters in the crowd and those who tune in on Fightzone TV are in for a hell of a show. I had to dig deeper than I was expecting to, but those rounds will prove invaluable. “I could have returned and brought in some Bulgarian journeyman and boxed his ears off all night but what Jordan gave me will stand to me, big time.
He returned to beat Jordan Latimer without dropping a round, but the Manchester fighter, with Sligo roots, gave McCormack a tough test – something he feels will stand to him now. The old me would have let it drag me down, but I was determined to get into the ring and show what I’d been working on the whole time out.” “I had also damaged my rotator cuff in the build-up, so it had all gone wrong. “I was a long time out of the ring before I returned in September, because of Covid and a couple of cancellations and the likes, and then I got a bout of Covid myself and recovered just 12 days before the fight. My trainer Shaun Kelly prepared a super camp and I’m the fittest, sharpest, strongest version of me that I’ve ever been,” says McCormack (34). “I’m feeling unbelievable about the fight, I’m really looking forward to it. McCormack will have a sizeable Limerick contingent making the trip across the water to support him, but Irish fight fans can watch live as the fight is the headline bout on Fightzone TV – the biggest up-and coming boxing broadcaster in the UK. To win tomorrow, he faces a classy opponent in Kean, a slick operator who will force McCormack to call on all his experience, as well as his boxing ability. Nobody is going to take that away from me.” “I lived in hell for so long that I became comfortable there, so I’m thankful now that I am where I am, and Friday night is going to show how hard I’ve worked to get here. I’m extremely grateful to be in this position and on Friday I’m going to take another step forward, and another step towards showing people what we can achieve when we have a bit of belief in ourselves. “Obviously my wife Lauren played a big part in that because by rights they all should have given up on me, but somehow they didn’t. “But I thank God – I do believe in God – but I keep my faith to myself, I wouldn’t call myself a ‘bible basher’, for want of a better word or anything, but I do have a good connection with God, and I got myself clean and sober because of that little bit of faith that I managed to cling on to. I was left on my own and I had nothing to live for. My partner, who is my wife now, my kids, my mother and father – everything. “That was the turning point, because I had lost everything. I ended up homeless, living on the streets and it got so bad I tried to take my own life.
I lived the wrong life, an extremely hard life and it got worse and worse and worse. Mentally, physically obviously I was just a ruthless b*****d. “I was living very much on the wrong side of the law drink and drugs. I was caught up in a lot of crime and spent a lot of time in and out of jail,” he tells the Irish Independent. It is a story of crime, drink, drugs, prison and darkness – but also one of triumph over all adversity.
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McCormack’s is a story of redemption, of a bad man who has come full circle and completely turned his life around. Tyndale House Publishers, 9781414385105, 1776pp.He has been there before in a previous life, long before he won his six fights in the paid ranks, and knows more than most the pain and torture required if he is to overcome Paul Kean (13-2) and become BUI Celtic middleweight king. Packer, Joseph Stowell, and Chuck Swindoll
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