James Warnock (1912 in

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– 1987) was a Southpaw boxer from the

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. 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

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on points twice - on 2 March 1936 at the

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and again on 2 June 1937 in front of 16,000 people in torrential rain at

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.Boxing record of Jimmy Warnock
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Belfast Telegraph, Down Memory Lane

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Belfast Cathedral Artists & Sculptors page - reference to Warnock's bust by Morris Harding

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