BLOCKBUSTER IS JUST BEGINNING
BOXING
JAY CARRIGAN-McFARLANE knows he has plenty of material to give him a Hollywood blockbuster but Scotland’s next heavyweight hopeful isn’t ready to tell the full story just yet. Not when it’s just beginning. The 20-year-old has packed in a lot already to be fair. He fought in the boxing Mecca of Madison Square Garden in New York in only his third fight. He shifted seven stone to go from a 20-stone blubbery basher to win the Scottish cruiserweight crown.
He was rescued from a Caribbean orphanage when he was only 10.
True story. Carrigan-McFarlane and his brother Kai, eight at the time, had to be picked up by grandparents in the Dominican Republic after his mum and her partner were jailed on drug charges.
The big fella brushes it off like he’d just missed the school bus one day.
Carrigan-McFarlane said: “It wasn’t easy but it’s all part of what I am today. There were a few dramatic moments but while my background has made me, it doesn’t define me.
“I want my story to be about what I achieve in boxing. I’ll wait until I’m champion and the film of my life comes out. I’m not interested in a documentary. I hope one of the Hemsworth brothers will play me!”
The childhood drama is not something Carrigan-McFarlane dwells on or likes to be drawn on. It was just a chapter of a story he’s not finished writing. He doesn’t even see the traumatic episode as the biggest challenge he has overcome.