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When the fighters came out for the 14th round, Mancini charged forward and hit Kim with a right. Kim reeled back, Mancini missed with a left, and then Mancini hit Kim with another hard right hand. Kim went flying into the ropes, his head hitting the canvas. Kim managed to rise unsteadily to his feet, but referee Richard Green stopped the fight ...
Sun Kil Moon's 2003 album Ghosts of the Great Highway includes the track "Duk Koo Kim" which references the fight between Mancini and Kim. In 2013, a documentary about Mancini was released called The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini. In 2015, Mancini spoke to Retro Report about the repercussions of his fight with Duk Koo Kim, "Blood ...
The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is a 2013 American documentary about the life of boxer Ray Mancini. [2] [3] [4] References
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The Ray Mancini vs. Bobby Chacon, or, alternatively, Bobby Chacon vs. Ray Mancini fight was a boxing contest which was held on January 14, 1984, in Reno, Nevada. It was for Mancini's WBA's world Lightweight title. Mancini won the fight, to retain his title, by a third-round technical knockout. [1]
After defeating Edwin Curet by a ten-round decision in a non-title bout, Bramble met Mancini in a rematch on February 16, 1985. In what marked the debut of the Compubox scoring system, Bramble defeated Mancini by an extremely close but unanimous fifteen-round decision to retain his world title at Reno, Nevada, in front of an HBO Boxing audience.
Lenny "Boom Boom" Mancini (12 July 1919 - 29 November 2003) was an American professional boxer. He was the father of Ray Mancini , a former world champion boxer. A native of Youngstown, Ohio , Mancini began his professional career in 1937, trained by Hall of Fame trainer Ray Arcel .
In 1992, he captured the vacant NABF light welterweight title with a knockout win over Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. On February 20, 1993, he challenged Mexican legend Julio César Chávez for the WBC light welterweight title at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, a fight attended by 132,247 spectators. Haugen's legacy is likely best defined by the ...