Jimmy Barry

Who was Jimmy Barry?

Jimmy Barry was an Irish-American boxer.

Barry fought out of Chicago as a bantamweight, and a flyweight, retiring with a record of 59-0-10-1. Along with Rocky Marciano, Ricardo Lopez, Ji-Won Kim, and Joe Calzaghe, Barry is one of only five boxing champions to retire undefeated. Barry won the Bantamweight Championship of the World match five times. On December 6, 1897 in London, England, Barry knocked out Walter Walter Croot in the 16th round to claim the World Bantamweight title for the fifth time. Croot struck his head on the floor and died of a brain injury. Barry was exonerated, but he never knocked a fighter out again. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000.