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Jamie Kavanagh (born 28 May 1990) is an Irish professional
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from
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. He is currently signed with
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Early life

Kavanagh grew up in
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. He began training at the age of eight, when he joined Crumlin Boxing Club, where he trained with future
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. He remained there until he was eleven years old, when Kavanagh and his family moved to
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. It was here where he would meet his longtime trainer, Sedano Ruiz. As a result of his upbringing, Kavanagh is also fluent in Spanish.


Amateur career

Kavanagh had a very successful amateur career, in which he amassed a record of 168 wins and 12 defeats. He won seven Irish national titles in that time, along with eight regional titles. At international level, Kavanagh won his first gold medal aged 13, when he competed with Ireland at the 2003 'Four Nations' Championships. They faced fighters from England, Scotland and Wales. Later that year, he won silver with Ireland in the 'Round Robin' Championships, another team competition where they fought boxers from England, France, Germany, Italy, Ukraine and Lithuania. In 2005, Kavanagh returned to the 'Four Nations' Championships where he took home a silver medal for Ireland. In the following two years, Kavanagh again competed as part of Ireland's 'Round Robin' Championships team. He took home gold in both 2006 and 2007. Kavanagh's final amateur medal came at the 2008 World Youth Championships in
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. Fighting in the
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category, he won silver after losing to Cuban fighter, Frank Isla in the final.


Professional career

Kavanagh turned professional in 2009. He subsequently moved to
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where he would train under
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at the Wild Card Gym, and frequently spar with fighters such as
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. Kavanagh won on his professional debut on a card with title contenders
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and Amir Khan on 15 May 2010. Kavanagh was named Irish Boxing's Prospect of the Year at the National Boxing Awards in February 2011, beating off competition from Belfast
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Jamie Conlan in the process. On 14 July 2012, he beat Paul Valarde in a unanimous decision. On 3 November 2012, he defeated Ramon Valadez (11–3, 6 KOs) in an 8-round slugfest at the Phoenix Club in
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, with some boxing pundits stating that round 3 was a "Round of the year" contender. In June 2013, it was confirmed that Kavanagh had left Freddie Roach and the Wild Card Gym. "Freddie can’t give me all his time. I need, at this point of my career, to be with someone who can", Kavanagh said. "Freddie hadn’t been with me for the last six fights. I needed to shake things up." After voicing his concerns to Golden Boy, they put him in touch with Joel Díaz, who Kavanagh began training with instead. In February 2016, Kavanagh was scheduled to fight Portuguese boxer Antonio Joao Benito at the
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in Ireland. During the weigh-in for the match, five gunmen stormed the room, killed Dublin gangster David Byrne and injured two others. The
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claimed responsibility for the attack. Later that day, the
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announced that the fight would be cancelled.


Personal life

Kavanagh's father, gangster Gerard "Hatchet" Kavanagh, died in September 2014 after being shot while at an Irish bar in Spain. This led to a nine-month hiatus in Kavanagh's career. Just days after his return to the ring in March 2015, Kavanagh's uncle,
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, was also shot dead in
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. Paul, who was just two years older than Jamie, had been one of Kavanagh's first training partners after introducing him to Crumlin Boxing Club when they were young.


Professional boxing record

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kavanagh, Jamie 1990 births Irish expatriates in the United States Light-welterweight boxers Living people Irish male boxers Boxers from County Dublin 21st-century Irish sportsmen