Jimmy Warnock

{{Infobox boxer

|name= Jimmy Warnock

|image =

|image_size = 200px

|realname= James Warnock

|nickname= Gloved Dynamite

|weight= Flyweight

|nationality= British

|birth_date= 1912

|death_date= {{death date and age|1987|1912}}

|birth_place= Belfast, Ireland

|style= Southpaw

|total=85

|wins=64

|KO=24

|losses=15

|draws=6

|no contests=

|}}

James Warnock (1912 in Lurgan[http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Jimmy_Warnock Jimmy Warnock's birthplace] – 1987) was a Southpaw boxer from the Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland.[http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=24140&cat=boxer Jimmy Warnock's boxrec wikipage (photo)]

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.[http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=024140 Boxing record of Jimmy Warnock]

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

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[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/other-sports/down-memory-lane-lynch-ruled-the-world-13399012.html Belfast Telegraph, Down Memory Lane]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110201033146/http://nipperpatdaly.co.uk/fightingwarnocks.htm The Fighting Life of the Warnocks (1936)] Article.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722160547/http://www.prewarboxing.co.uk/boxerlists/Wlist.htm List of pre-war boxers in UK]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150518233937/http://www.belfastcathedral.org/heritage/artists-and-sculptors/ Belfast Cathedral Artists & Sculptors page - reference to Warnock's bust by Morris Harding]
[https://archive.today/20040525165014/http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/pgstudents/boxing/tutwhalley.htm article about John Thomas Whalley who fought Jimmy Warnock]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930022337/http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/cbzforum/archive/index.php/t-3113.html Article about the night the lights went out in the King's Hall, Belfast]

Jimmy Warnock

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