Boom Boom Mancini vs. Duk Koo Kim



In the aptly titled Boom Boom Mancini, Warren Zevon sings:
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When they asked him who was responsible

For the death of Du Koo Kim

He said, "Someone should have stopped the fight, and told me it was him."

They made hypocrite judgments after the fact

But the name of the game is be hit and hit back...


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I've been meaning to look into what in the world Mr. Zevon was singing about in that song. Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports fills us in on the whole story, which doesn't have any kind of happy ending. Skipping to that ending:
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It was a tragic fight in so many ways. Four months later, Kim's mother committed suicide. Green, the referee, committed suicide, too.

Ray Mancini lived on, haunted forever by the memory of that brilliant afternoon in the Las Vegas sun and a fight gone horribly wrong.

"The rest of my life, I'm not just Ray Mancini, I'm Ray Mancini, the guy who killed Duk Koo Kim," he said. "You never escape that. You wonder what it would have been like for the both of us if I had quit or if he had quit and this hadn't happened."


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Moral of the story: If either of them had been a big pussy, nobody would have died.

update: Hey look. Video:
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Posted: Tue - November 13, 2007 at 06:41 PM          
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