Darrel Mack, a fighter in life and a family man, is remembered – Cabin Radio

June 20, 2025

When Darrel Mack passed away, he was Canada’s number one boxer in at least three weight divisions.

Granted, those divisions were in the video game Fight Night Champion. To Darrel’s friends and his son, that’s a minor detail.

“That’s such a poetic way to go for him,” said his son, Brandon.

Darrel was a fighter. People fight cancer all the time – it’s the default way to describe the process of trying to survive something terrible – but Darrel really fought his, because that was the language he understood.

As a child, he stood up for others. He met the future love of his life in taekwondo class at high school. He spent weekend after weekend watching boxing and UFC with his son. The Fight Night Champion community will never see another like him.