James Warnock (1912 in LurganJimmy Warnock's birthplace – 1987) was a southpaw boxer from the Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.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.Boxing record of Jimmy Warnock
He was one of three boxing brothers, including Billy Warnock.
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 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