On November 13, 1982, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini defended his WBA lightweight title against South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim in Las Vegas, Nevada. The match was a brutal and grueling 14-round battle, with both boxers exchanging heavy blows and sustaining significant injuries...

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Watched that the other day, it was a dope mini documentary. I had seen the full fight before too but not in a while

Being one of the first responses in this thread i dont wanna spoil it but man its sad all the fall out that happened because of this fight. Very sad

What was changed?...boxer strategy or bout rulings. Boxing had been around a while before this fight so just curious. This is actually pretty crazy tho that each corner, and officiating, would let the boxers sling it out round after round like this for that long.

Edit: Stopped skipping around and watched the rest of the tail end...shyt was crazy.

Listening to Boom Boom talk nowadays makes me think it could have easily been him that night.

Terrifying how brutal boxing is sometimes

AliHood said 🔗 What was changed?...boxer strategy or bout rulings. Boxing had been around a while before this fight so just curious. This is actually pretty crazy tho that each corner, and officiating, would let the boxers sling it out round after round like this for that long. Edit: Stopped skipping around and watched the rest of the tail end...shyt was crazy.

I know for sure rounds dropped to 12. It’s been about 10 years since I last saw the fight. It was a tough watch knowing what already happened. Also it just hard for be to watch fights with lack of defense.

AliHood said 🔗 What was changed?...boxer strategy or bout rulings. Boxing had been around a while before this fight so just curious. This is actually pretty crazy tho that each corner, and officiating, would let the boxers sling it out round after round like this for that long. Edit: Stopped skipping around and watched the rest of the tail end...shyt was crazy.

They changed title fights from 15 to 12 rounds.
Thats about it.

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and this is the fight that made mofos start looking into rehydration clauses

Gatti gave this mofo permanent brain damage. still fu#ked up today.

weigh in was 141 i think. and gatti blew up to 160 overnight.

DavidTheMan said 🔗 They changed title fights from 15 to 12 rounds. Thats about it.

And those 3 rounds changed everything.

You wonder how the outcome of so many big fights in recent memory would've been different had they gone 15 instead of 12.

The rhythm, strategy, and training for a 15 round fight is different too

dakidjahsiah said 🔗 ↪🔗 and this is the fight that made mofos start looking into rehydration clauses Gatti gave this mofo permanent brain damage. still fu#ked up today. weigh in was 141 i think. and gatti blew up to 160 overnight.

Gotti rigged the scales, it was worse than rehydration

AliHood said 🔗 What was changed?...boxer strategy or bout rulings. Boxing had been around a while before this fight so just curious. This is actually pretty crazy tho that each corner, and officiating, would let the boxers sling it out round after round like this for that long. Edit: Stopped skipping around and watched the rest of the tail end...shyt was crazy.

12 round limit on fights and fighters now have to undergo mri and lung exams before a fight and a ref can give a standing 8 count.

Damn that ending is sad as hell man. RIP