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Rocco Del Sesto · 04-09-2011, 03:08 PM

I'm going through my Boxing News papers looking up McIlvaney's fights and i notice some accounts mention him as being from Birmingham and some mention Leicester. I looked on a map and see the two are somewhat close to each other. Would a fighter sometimes actually live in one place and maybe he was training/work out of another location? I see this quite a bit as I've been looking up fight accounts of various boxers in these Boxing News papers where they'll switch back and forth between two and sometimes three locations for the fighter.

I'll mention to Jim reach the Boxing News British heavyweight rankings, tied for 15th with Jim Monagham, in the Oct 7, 1966 News after the two Jims had fought their 6 round draw in September 1966. By the New's next British rankings at the end of that year, McIlvaney was not listed. His career pretty much spun out of control after that draw with Monagham.

I'm going to finish going through his fights and then work on an update of his TB rating that I did for him and will repost it here.

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Rocco Del Sesto All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Watkinsville, Georgia Posts: 1,593 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19x in 16 posts	Jim McIlvaney - HW Scotland 1965-68 I'm going through my Boxing News papers looking up McIlvaney's fights and i notice some accounts mention him as being from Birmingham and some mention Leicester. I looked on a map and see the two are somewhat close to each other. Would a fighter sometimes actually live in one place and maybe he was training/work out of another location? I see this quite a bit as I've been looking up fight accounts of various boxers in these Boxing News papers where they'll switch back and forth between two and sometimes three locations for the fighter. I'll mention to Jim reach the Boxing News British heavyweight rankings, tied for 15th with Jim Monagham, in the Oct 7, 1966 News after the two Jims had fought their 6 round draw in September 1966. By the New's next British rankings at the end of that year, McIlvaney was not listed. His career pretty much spun out of control after that draw with Monagham. I'm going to finish going through his fights and then work on an update of his TB rating that I did for him and will repost it here.