Kaden McDonough

Kaden Seamus McDonough II (born August 30, 1990) is a former British Amatuer boxer, who after an accomplished junior career, including qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympics refused to turn Professional and moved back to Boston to take time away from Boxing. He has recently began training in Professional Wrestling with the aim of competing at a different level.

Early Life
Kaden is the son of Seamus Conor McDonough, a member of the Romany traveling community and was born in Tipperary, Ireland. He is the youngest of four brothers and two sisters, Conor Dylan (1975), Shane Cian (1979), Darragh Liam (1981), Shannon Roisin (1983), Sinead Orla (1985), Ciaran Niall (1986). Kaden also had another brother who died at the age of two, Kaden Seamus I (1987-1989). He grew up on a camp site in Tipperary, where he was first introduced to the sport of Boxing. His family eventually moved to Boston, Massachusets but Kaden thought his Boxing would be better served in Great Britain and moved back to Hackney in London. He never met his Mother as she died during his child birth, but she is known as a respected person within the Traveling community.

McDonough never attended school, but was educated as part of the Boston ABC education program and worked for his fathers Bricklaying company for many years in between training. His determination has always been noted as a well regarded skill and former Boxing coach from Boston, Frank Murphy, said "If the boy [McDonough] can calm down, he will have a great future ahead of him."

Boxing Career
"Caravan Kid" McDonough lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts and fights for Boston ABC in his spare time. Originally from Tipperary, Ireland of the Munster province. McDonough is also the grandson of one of Britain's most famous bareknuckle champion, Bartley Gorman. His father Seamus, a former amateur, also admits to being involved in a bareknuckle scrap once or twice "to sort things out, the way the Travelling community does".

The southpaw won his first 63 amateur fights at senior level in a row, including the Commonwealth Championships in 2007 and the Strandya Cup in 2008 edging out Kazahkstan's Bakhyt Sarsekbayev.

In 2008 McDonough qualified for the Beijing Olympics in the Welterweight division at the age of 18. McDonough qualified at the European area qualifier in Madrid, Spain. He beat European champion Andrey Balanov and Vitalie Gruşac, he lost his semi to Billy Joe Saunders before beating the Turkish prospect, Bülent Ulusoy for the all-important third spot. He went to Beijing as the second person from the British Romany Gypsy community to qualify for the games alongside fellow Romany, Billy Joe Saunders where he was defeated in the first round of the welterweight division by the eventual winner, Belarussian Magomed Nurutdinov. He was suspended prior to the fight but allowed to compete for "lewd behaviour", allegedly pertaining to an incident with a local woman during a pre-season training camp in Germany. In early December 2008 Kaden was offered a professional contract with well known British promoter, Frank Warren. McDonough turned down the contract as he wanted a break from the sport and is considered the biggest waste of talent in British Boxing as he was considered to be the next big thing in British boxing, with many believing his style is more suited to the professional ranks then many of the other amatuer turned pro prospects.