Ray Mancini vs. Duk Koo Kim ✝️ - 1080p 60FPS - Highlights

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Ray Mancini vs. Deuk Koo Kim ✝️

KO at 0:19 in round 14 of 15
November 13, 1982
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
World Boxing Association Lightweight Title (2nd defense by Mancini)

Kim was ranked No. 1 at lightweight by the WBA.
Kim, who had never fought outside of South Korea, was a big underdog.

Mancini and Kim went toe-to-toe for most of the fight, which was tougher and closer than most expected.

Mancini knocked out Kim with a right to the jaw early in the fourteenth round.
Kim suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and lapsed into a coma. After undergoing a 2½-hour operation to remove a blood clot from his brain, he was placed on a respirator to keep him breathing. Kim died on November 17, five days after the fight.

Kim's mother, Yang Sun-Yo, flew from South Korea to Las Vegas to be with her son before he was taken off life support.
Kim's mother committed suicide by drinking pesticide on January 29, 1983, and Richard Greene, who refereed the Mancini-Kim fight, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on July 1, 1983, unable to overcome Kim's death.

On December 9, 1982, the World Boxing Council announced that they were going to reduce the number of rounds in their championship fights from fifteen to twelve and would allow referees to issue standing eight count

Bob Arum later said of Mancini: "He was never the same fighter. He just didn't have the thing that made him who he was. He was never as aggressive. He never threw the punches with the reckless abandon that he used to. He was shaken to his core."

Before the fight , Kim wrote the message "live or die" on his Las Vegas hotel lampshade only days before the bout!

Rest in peace to all figthers gone too early. Boxing is not a game !

"LIVE OR DIE" - Deuk Koo Kim ✝️ 🇰🇷
July 29, 1955 – November 18, 1982

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[jcdlovetron]

This is the greatest fight I ever saw. At the opening bells they were literally running to the center of the ring and commencing to whaling on each other.

[wheelchairmanjon]

Mancini was never the same after this. I think Kim‘s death really affected him. I can’t even imagine that happening. The guilt he must’ve felt was really bad. Is that it overshadow what a great fight this was Kim showed what is beautiful about boxing courage, heart determination, dedication something that only select few human beings can do Which is why I have the upmost respect for every fighter that gets in the ring. I never called them bums because it takes a special human being to do what they do all for entertainment of people like me

[EjSmith-dh]

That was a real fight, , not a fixed fight like boom boom fighting hector macho Camacho..that fight was fixed !!