Hillsborough, Ireland, U.K. (nowadays Royal Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, U.K.)[3]
Died
28 October 2004(2004-10-28) (aged 96)
Richland, Washington, U.S.
Nationality
Irish[Note 1]
Other names
Baby Face[1] Beltin' Celt Dublin Dynamiter Dublin Destroyer Murderous Mick The Belfast Spider The Jew Killer[1] The Jew Beater Hebrew Scourge[1] The Irish Lullaby[2]
Statistics
Weight(s)
Flyweight Bantamweight Lightweight Welterweight
Height
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Reach
67 in (170 cm)
Stance
Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights
69
Wins
55
Wins by KO
21
Losses
11
Draws
3
James Archibald McLarnin (19 December 1907 – 28 October 2004) was an Irish professional boxer who became a two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.[4]
McLarnin has been referred to as the greatest Irish boxer of all time. BoxRec ranks McLarnin as the second-best pound-for-pound fighter of all-time, the greatest Irish boxer of all time.[5][6]
^ abc"Jimmy McLarnin". The Independent. 11 November 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^Century, Douglas (2009). Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter. Vol. 2. Schocken. p. 65.
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^"All-time World welterweights". from BoxRec.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
^Glynn Evans (18 December 2015). "9 Greatest Irish Boxers of All-Time". BoxNation. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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unearthed McLarnin's birth certificate which showed that McLarnin was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland in 1907. McLarnin's father, Sam McLarnin, a...
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knocked out after 6 rounds by future champion, Irish-Canadian boxer JimmyMcLarnin. Madison Garden was packed near capacity with 19,000 excited fans to...
non-title bout with boxing sensation JimmyMcLarnin before a crowd of around 25,000 on September 2, 1930. McLarnin flattened Singer in the third round...
judgement of skilled matchmakers, Fields took on the far more experienced JimmyMcLarnin, on November 12, 1925. With only six fights and nine months of professional...
came the first of three bouts versus JimmyMcLarnin. Ross vacated the light welterweight title to go after McLarnin's welterweight title and won by a 15-round...
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the ten round bout by unanimous decision, McLarnin's nose was broken in the bout. His second bout with McLarnin in the Garden on March 1, attended by nearly...
23, 1933. Later Ross won the 147-pound welterweight world title from JimmyMcLarnin on May 28, 1934. Henry Armstrong was the first man to hold three titles...
other world champions that he beat were Frankie Klick, Baby Arizmendi, JimmyMcLarnin and Kid Chocolate. Canzoneri had a record of 137 wins, 24 losses, 10...
the Year 1933—TKOby10 Max Baer (June 8) Succeeded by Barney Ross W15 JimmyMcLarnin (May 28, 1934) Preceded by Joe Louis KO4 Max Baer (September 24, 1935)...
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his career he faced the likes of Mickey Walker, Young Corbett III, JimmyMcLarnin, Marcel Thil, and Fred Apostoli. Brouillard was inducted into the World...
extense of his illness), Pancho Villa drops a ten-round decision to JimmyMcLarnin in New York. July 14 – Pancho Villa passes away from blood poisoning...
heavyweight card was held on 13 January 1925, the 10 round was between JimmyMcLarnin and Fidel LaBarba. The Hollywood film Ben Hur premiered in December...
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