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...have been fatally injured in boxing matches since 1918. South Korean Lightweight Kim Duk Koo is the latest. His body was unhitched from a hospital machine last week and allowed to join his brain in death four days after a left-right combination by Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight...
...Mancini wept, prayed and fretted that he might be next, but made sure that no one got the idea he was retiring. Sugar Ray Robinson spoke for all of the survivors in 1947 at the inquest for Jimmy Doyle. Before the knockout, did Robinson know he had Doyle in trouble? "Sir," Robinson answered softly, "getting people in trouble is my business...
DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT...
District Judge Paul Goldman declared the 23-year-old legally dead at 9 p.m. Kim has been unconscious since fighter Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini knocked him out in the 14th round of Saturday night's lightweight title bout...
Stylistically, the film is a cultural hodge-podge filled with misplaced Americanisms and out of context references. Andrews and Garner discuss "relationships" as only post-1960's lovers would, and her career versus marriage conflict seems equally anachronistic. Henry Mancini's lavish musical numbers are supposedly the main attraction for a decadent nightclub, but his pieces are hardly very risque Yet the plot and competent acting hold Victor Victoria together...