Description
Jimmy McLarnin
Alias: Baby Face/Belfast Spider
Record: 55-11-3
Division: Welter
Bouts: 69
Career: 1923-1936
Debut: 1923-12-19
Nationality: Canada
Residence: Glendale, California, USA
Birth place: Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Born: 1907-12-19
Died: 2004-10-28 (Age: 96)
The May 1994 issue of The Ring Magazine ranked McLarnin as the fifth greatest welterweight of all-time.
McLarnin was also quite a competent golfer and played regularly with his good friends Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Fred Astaire.
Categories: World Welterweight Champions |Irish World Champions |Canadian World Champions |The Ring Magazine Champions |IBHOF Members
