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Jimmy Warnock

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Irish boxer

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Belfast, Belfast district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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75 years

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James Warnock (1912 in Lurgan – 1987) was a southpaw boxer from the Shankill Road, Belfast, United Kingdom..

Jimmy Warnock began his early boxing career at Belfast's Chapel Fields in prize fights 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.

He was one of three boxing brothers, including Billy Warnock.

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Gender:Male, Born in:Years 1900 to 1929

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1912 births

1987 deaths

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Male boxers from Northern Ireland

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http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Jimmy_Warnock

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=24140&cat=boxer

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=024140

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/other-sports/down-memory-lane-lynch-ruled-the-world-13399012.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110201033146/http://nipperpatdaly.co.uk/fightingwarnocks.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20110722160547/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/boxerlists/Wlist.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518233937/http://www.belfastcathedral.org/heritage/artists-and-sculptors/

https://archive.is/20040525165014/http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/pgstudents/boxing/tutwhalley.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20070930022337/http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/cbzforum/archive/index.php/t-3113.html

Jimmy Warnock