Martin McGarry
Martin Mc Garry
McGarry was born in Ireland, came to the United States and
resides on Chicago Illinois South Side.
The former amateur standout trains amateur and professional boxers.
As an amateur boxer Mc Garry faced long time middleweight rival Anthony (Tony) Martinez in the 1971 finals of both the C.Y.O. and Golden Gloves.
Martinez got the nod earlier in the year at the Gloves finals but Mc Garry came out victorious in the Catholic Youth Organization Championship.
McGarry has been a trainer on Chicago's South side for over two decades, working with multiple amateur champions and several professional boxers.
JANUARY 24th, 2018
McGarry, the founder of McGarry's Boxing Club in Beverly, had been battling familial amyloidosis, a hereditary disease. The same disease previously took the life of McGarry's mother, two brothers, uncle and first cousin.
"This morning we said goodbye to the best man we know," McGarry's son, Morgan, wrote on the Boxing Club's website on Wednesday. "My dad was my best friend and mentor. I will be forever grateful for the memories and times we shared together."
McGarry was born in Ireland, where he learned to box. He quickly became one of the South Side's best amateur boxers after moving to Chicago in 1969 and in 1996 established the McGarry's Boxing Club (a non-profit, community based training gym) in the garage of his Beverly home, where he trained Olympians and Golden Gloves champions among others.