Ray Mancini

Ray Mancini
Data
Birth Name	Ray Mancini
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	March 4, 1961
place of birth	Youngstown
Combat Statistics
Struggles	34
Victories	29
Knockout victories	23
Defeats	5
draw	0
No value	0

Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini (born March 4, 1961 in Youngstown , Ohio ) is a former American boxer of Italian descent, who also works as a film and television actor. Mancini took his fighting name and nickname "Boom-Boom" from his father, a former boxer who laid the foundation for Mancini's career. From May 1982 to June 1984 Ray Mancini was world champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA) in the lightweight.

Professional career as a boxer

Ray Mancini was World Boxing Association champion for two years in the 1980s. He won the WBA title in 1982 against Arturo Frias . Before that, Mancini, who had been a professional boxer after a steep amateur career since 1978, was defeated in a then sensational fight for the world champion title against Alexis Arguello . A tragic high point of his professional career was Mancini's defense of his title in November 1982 against Duk Koo Kim : Mancini's opponent Kim, who had to lose weight to reach the fighting weight and was dehydrated , succumbed to the injuries he had sustained in the ring against Mancini days after the fight. Mancini was mentally badly damaged by this event, but did not give up his career as a professional boxer. He lost his WBA title on June 1, 1984 against Livingstone Bramble by technical knockout in the 14th round. He also lost the rematch that took place on February 16, 1985. The fight went on for the full 15 rounds. On March 6, 1989, "Boom-Boom" Mancini wanted to celebrate its comeback. However, he lost to Hector Camacho . It was about the WBO junior world champion welterweight title. This fight also went through the rounds, but it was only scheduled for 12 rounds. After the opponent Greg Haugen also defeated Mancini on April 3, 1992, Mancini finally resigned from boxing. Greg Haugen ended the fight prematurely in round 7 by technical knockout

Resignation from professional boxing and activities as an actor and producer

Mancini only retired from boxing in 1994, after a sixteen-year professional career. In addition to his boxing career, he had already taken on minor roles in film and television productions and, since the end of his career as a professional boxer, increasingly appeared as an actor and also as a producer.

The TV production "Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story (1985)" (German title: "Fäuste aus Stahl") is a film adaptation of Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini; in it Ray Mancini has an extra role .

In 1998 he starred in the boxing film Body and Mind alongside Rod Steiger , Tahnee Welch and Jennifer Beals .

Others

The American singer and songwriter Warren Zevon dedicated the song Boom Boom Mancini to Mancini, which, in addition to Mancini's clout, also mentions the death of Duk Koo Kim. Zevon accounts in the way that is typical for him:

they made hypocrite judgments after the fact

But the name of the game is hit and hit back

Web links

• Ray Mancini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Boom Boom Mancini (Lyrics)