TRAGIC BOUT: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini throws a right uppercut to the body of Deuk-Koo Kim
TRAGIC BOUT: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini throws a right uppercut to the body of Deuk-Koo Kim during their World Boxing Association lightweight title bout, above, in Las Vegas on Nov. 13, 1982. Earlier, Mancini had watched the Korean challenger stand on the scale for the bout’s weigh-in at left. Mancini knocked out Kim in the 14th round, and Kim died four days later. ESPN airs a documentary tonight exploring the career of Mancini on the 25th anniversary of the Kim fight.
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