James Cook (boxer)

James Cook MBE (17 May 1959 – 7 June 2025) was a Jamaican-born European and British super middleweight boxing champion.

Biography

Cook was born on 17 May 1959.^[1] In the 2007 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Youth Justice in Hackney, London.^[2] Boxing Monthly noted the award came following "his outstanding work with the young people of Hackney's notorious Murder Mile".^[3] He also previously featured on the show The Secret Millionaire.

He was the uncle of professional footballers Anthony Cook, Reice Charles-Cook, Roman Charles-Cook, and Regan Charles-Cook.^[4][5]

Cook died of bladder cancer in London, on 7 June 2025, at the age of 66.^[6]