Heres a wee bit to be going on with RSAUB. Notice how McGuigan is on about the tricolour. They never miss a chance The Belfast Spider...Babyface
Jimmy McLarnin was probably the best fighter ever born on this island. His family lived at the Lisburn Road end of Sandy Row. They moved to Hillsborough where Jimmy was born on 19th December 1907. Here is a brief account of his career from the Ring Magazine. Jimmy McLarnin consistently fought the best fighters in the world for 13 years. Among the great opponents he faced are world champions from seven different weight classes, spanning a total of 48 pounds. In 77 career bouts, he met 15 world champions and five fellow Hall-of-Famers. On five occasions, McLarnin beat a reigning world champion in a non-title bout.
A gifted boxer and dangerous puncher, McLarnin turned pro in 1923 and the following year he decisioned and drew with future flyweight champion Fidel LaBarba in a pair of four-round bouts. His competition got better from there.
In 1925, he beat three world-class fighters in a six-month span -- flyweight champion Pancho Villa in July, future welterweight titlist Jackie Fields in November and future bantamweight champion Bud Taylor in December.
McLarnin challenged lightweight champ Sammy Mandell in 1928 but dropped a 15-round decision. After beating the great Benny Leonard, McLarnin earn a title fight against welterweight king Young Corbett III in 1993. McLarnin knocked Corbett out in the first round. But his reign as champion was brief.
Barney Ross, who had held the lightweight and junior welterweight titles, took the title from McLarnin in May of 1934. He lost the crown back to McLarnin three months later but managed to reclaim the throne with a points win in May of 1935.
McLarnin fought three more times after losing the title. In 1936, he split a pair of 10-round decision with legend Tony Canzoneri and scored a non-title fight decision over lightweight champion Lou Ambers in his final fight.
He has been ranked at 21 amongst the all time boxers at all weights
MIRROR SPORT,Barry McGuigan 27/6/2009
McLarnin was a superstar in the days when boxers in the United States were sporting royalty.
This fellow was on firstname terms with Clark Gable and Jimmy Cagney. He played golf with Bob Hope. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars that today would be worth hundreds of millions.
I knew of McLarnin as a boy growing up in Clones. His name was lumped together with the line of boxing heroes wrapped in the Irish tricolour who became household names in America.
It was not until I opened an exhibition in New York four years ago dedicated to Irish-American fighters I realised what a superstar of Irish boxing McLarnin was. Born in 1908 in Hillsborough, County Down, he left with his family for Vancouver aged three. He was spotted in Canada as a 13- year-old by his mentor Pop Foster, and taken to the United States.
If you thought Naseem Hamed was the first to vault over the ropes like the Crimson Pirate, seventy years before McLarnin was cartwheeling across the rings of Chicago and New York in front of crowds of 60,000.
And boy could he box. He started as a lightweight then moved up to welter.
But I have left a few pictures etc of Jimmy in Sandy Row Rangers and asked them if they could put one up in their hallway where they have a number of Ulster sports stars including McGuigan. 
I had already asked the guy who looks after the bar and left him a wee photo which I seen stuck between the optics, I have since been down and seen one of the committee men and left a bigger picture, stuff about Jimmy's Methodist upbringing and Sandy Row connections. We'll see what happens....if anything. 
