Height: | 5′ 4″ |
Weight Class: | super featherweight |
Total: | 6 |
Weight: | 9.1 stone |
Jessica Barry (born 14 June 1994)[1] is a professional super featherweight boxer known as "the Celtic Banshee" or "Banshee Barry".[2] [3]
Barry was born in Warwick, Warwickshire in 1994. She had a successful amateur boxing career with Christ the King ABC in Coventry, winning 18 of 19 fights, before turning professional in 2022.[4] Whilst studying computer science at Coventry University she won the Universities Elite Cup.[5]
Barry currently boxes out of Fitzpatrick's gym in Leamington Spa and is trained by Derek Fitzpatrick.
She has Irish heritage and has represented Ireland at boxing events.