User:Alexbonaro/Jack Carroll
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| Jack Carroll (boxing) | |
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| Real name | Giacomo Carrolla |
| Nickname | Staten Island Jack, Machine Gun Jack |
| Weight | Middleweight |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Birth date | 7th July, 1990 |
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| Style | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | n/a |
| Wins | n/a |
| Wins by KO | n/a |
| Losses | n/a |
| Draws | n/a |
| No contests | n/a |
Jack Carroll (born July 7, 1990-) is a notorious Perth criminal figure and martial artist who gained attention in the Western Australian crime scene during the late 90s (and continues to do so now) due to his incredible wealth and power as a child.
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[edit] Early Life
Jack Carroll was born in England and moved with his family at a young age to Perth. As a youth he attended a Perth private high school which has asked to go unnamed. He received unusually high grades and dreamed of becoming a lawyer. During his schooling however Carroll became involved in an unlikely bloody turf war with several similar aged Asian criminals.
[edit] Career as a fighter
Carroll allegedly became involved with underground street fighting and trained at the little known but intensive "Fighting College", a dojo of sorts residing in Osbourne Park in an unused warehouse. After training for two years under a sensai known only as Master Frank Kenwick, Carrol went on to take several street fighting titles but wasn't satisfied. "Jackie just wasn't satisfied with the scene in Perth, there wasn't the same level of competition as was in, say, Melbourne or Sydney at the time." said Kenwick in arguably his only recorded interview. As fate would have it Carrol became friends with a future champion Jarrod Cavanagh.
Classifying Carroll's style is impossible due to his activity in both the Perth junior boxing scene and the street fighting scene.
[edit] Carroll as a boxer
Carroll took part in amateur boxing before learning any of the Asian martial art disciplines that he would later use in the street fighting "turf war" of 2003.
Carroll embodied both speed and power but lacked grace. Known for his criticism of Rocky Marciano's Swarmer style of boxing and Muhammad Ali's Out-fighter style, Carroll became, in all respects, an In-fighter after learning from recordings of Jake LaMotta as a young child.
[edit] Carroll as a street fighter
It was at an amateur boxing match that Carroll met his future trainer Frank Kenwick. Kenwick had been coming to the matches for a few weeks and invited Carroll out for drinks. Carroll revealed his discontent with boxing and Kenwick offered him training in the stick fighting disciplines of Kalinda and Jogo do Pau which would last for two years. He incorporated both boxing, stick fighting and, on a minor level, Akido in the matches and soon became a dominant member of the street fighting circuit. It is aknowledged that Carroll became sick of the lack of competition and left the scene to continue his schooling.
