"Live or Die" and THE Fight that changed boxing forever... slaughterhouse !!!

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-counts.

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 for all fighters gone too early. Boxing is not a game !

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

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