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Originally Posted by madredmonkey
Hello, Rocco,
i was on the net when i came across your list of boxers from the 1960,s,
and my fathers name was on it, Jim Mcilvaney, but as many records have put my father down as being born in Birmingham England, infact he was born in Bellshill Scotland, and moved to Birmingham in 1961 at the age of 18, this is why he is often put down as being born there, but is infact untrue, he is a true Scott and hates being called English as you can imagine.
I hope you dont mind me telling you his real birth place.
all the best to you,
Mark Mcilvaney(proud son of James Mcilvaney.
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I'm hoping that Mark McIlvaney is still around this forum some to be in touch.
I remembered from some time ago your message here about your father James McIlvaney. It was great of you to have written to tell a little history about your father. I wanted to touch base to hopefully let you know of my goal to do a rerating of your father's career to have posted in the official TB2.5 data base. I've got myself copies of the Boxing News during his career (unfortunately don't have any 1965, so won't have his very first fight), and I'm reading through them to see what they have to say about your fathers fights during his career.
I'm hoping they will help me to learn a little more about the kind of fighter he was and who his opponents were to help with my rating.
just thought I'd try and touch base. If you do happen to see this, anything else you could tell me about your father that you'd wish to share, I would love to hear about. I'm putting a goal for myself to work on some of the less heard about UK fighters from that time period to put into the data base.
Thank you again for your story on your father!
Rocco Del Sesto