Jimmy Warnock
Jimmy Warnock | |
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Statistics | |
Real name | James Warnock |
Nickname(s) | Gloved Dynamite |
Weight(s) | Flyweight |
Nationality | British |
Born | 1912 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Stance | Southpaw |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 85 |
Wins | 64 |
Wins by KO | 24 |
Losses | 15 |
Draws | 6 |
James Warnock (1912 in Lurgan[1] – 1987) was a Southpaw boxer from the Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.[2]
Jimmy Warnock began his early boxing career at Belfast's Chapel Fields in organised by Clara Copley. In the 1930s he beat undisputed world flyweight champion Benny Lynch on points twice - on 2 March 1936 at the King's Hall, Belfast and again on 2 June 1937 in front of 16,000 people in torrential rain at Parkhead stadium in Glasgow.[3]
He was one of three boxing brothers, including .
References[]
External links[]
- Belfast Telegraph, Down Memory Lane
- The Fighting Life of the Warnocks (1936) Article.
- List of pre-war boxers in UK
- Belfast Cathedral Artists & Sculptors page - reference to Warnock's bust by Morris Harding
- article about John Thomas Whalley who fought Jimmy Warnock
- Article about the night the lights went out in the King's Hall, Belfast
Further reading[]
- Benny: The Life and Times of a Fighting Legend - by John Burrowes ISBN 978-1-84018-661-1
Categories:
- 1912 births
- 1987 deaths
- Boxers from Belfast
- Flyweight boxers
- Male boxers from Northern Ireland
- British boxing biography stubs
- Sportspeople from Northern Ireland stubs