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Corner #27

Ray Mancini

Lightweight Champ
29-5 KO)
International Boxing Hall of Fame

21 :30

On this episode Co Smitty down w R ' Boom' Mancini hails from
Youngstown,OH and this blue collar town produced a tough, hard working and beloved Champion. Ray's father was his
inspiration to become a World Champion and Ray fulfilled his dad's dream when he became Lightweight Champion of
the World. Tragically, Mancini is probably best known for his incredibly tough fight against Du Koo Kim in which Kim
lost his life. Ray has taken from all of his life lessons and become a positive force in Boxing as great ambassador and
broadcaster

In This Corner premiered on April 1 2004 on the Empire Sports Network broadcasting in Upstate New
York and Nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network. Since that first airing, In This Corner has been on the
air every week and is in its 15th year of featuring one on one interviews and in ring demonstrations with
the biggest names in the sport of Boxing.

There has never been another show that has chronicled the stories of this many World Champions.