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[email protected] Name: Jimmy McLarnin Alias: Baby Face/Belfast Spider Birth Name: James Mc Larnin Born: 1907-12-19 Birthplace: Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Died: 2004-10-28 (Age:96) Nationality: Canadian Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Stance: Orthodox Height: 5′ 6″ / 168cm Reach: 67″ / 170cm Boxing Record: click The Montana Standard 27 October 1929 Baby Face Jimmy" McLarnin, no longer wearing the "baby face" smile but looking quite grim, knocked out Sammy Baker in one round. In that fight Baker, who used to be one of the most punishing wallopers among the welters landed only one light left jab on .Jimmy, and Jimmy slaughtered him with five rapid smashes to the head that dropped Sammy for a nine-second count, and finished him with four more as soon as he got up. This brings McLarnin into the limelight again – and this time as a welterweight. It also brings him into public notice as Jackie Fields Nemesis. When McLarnin fights Fields for the welter championship, as he surely will, It will be more than an ordinary fight. It will be a fight in which the champion meets a man who once knocked him out, almost spoiling a meteoric career. 2 Ladies Followed Jimmy. Little Jimmy McLarnin began fighting as a professional, after a year or so of amateur scraps, about a year before Fields became a professional.