Ray Mancini

Mayweather should fight Golovkin at 154, says Mancini

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golovkin444By Allan Fox: Former world champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini thinks that WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) should come down to 154 to face WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) at a catch-weight in order to gain his respect and to give the fans a great fight.

Mancini has zero respect for Mayweather fighting Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) in his next fight on September 12th, if that’s who Mayweather winds up facing next. Mancini sees that fight as a waste of time for Mayweather because it’s such a mismatch.

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Mancini – Canelo’s an ordinary fighter; Lara beat him

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canelo06By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini thinks that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) is an ordinary fighter with marginal skills, and that he should have been given a defeat in his fight against Erislandy Lara this month.

Mancini, like many other boxing experts, feels that Lara out-boxed Canelo for 12 rounds, but ultimately lost the fight to the house fighter, the guy that brings in more money for the sport of boxing.

Mancini thinks that Canelo’s trainers haven’t taught him the things that he needs to know, and that they were exposed for what they didn’t tell him in Canelo’s loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mancino thinks Canelo is a big puncher, but not a skilled one and not one that can handle any kind of movement.

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Ricky Hatton vs. Boom Boom Mancini at 139 pounds – The battle of two flawed fighters

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By Allen Hmiel: Two marginal boxing champions both limited in ability and talent but huge on heart and desire and even courage. Both Champions in their time even though questionable champions who were protected as much as possible to become champions. Padded boxing records, smart managers, acute financial advisers and boxing records littered with average opponents with lousy reputations. They both seem to be an even match up in punching power speed size strength and extremely hittable.

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Mancini Kim: Remembering Their Tragic Bout

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mancini44445.jpgFormer World Boxing Association lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini (29-5, 23 KOs) will be shown on ESPN next week (Tuesday, November 13th) to highlight the career of Mancini, which will contain information on his tragic championship bout with Deuk-Koo Kim, fought on November 13, 1982, a fight that ended with Kim dying in the hospital following their grueling bout. Kim, only 23, lapsed into a coma after being knocked out in the 14th round by two consecutive right hands by Mancini. If you ask most people about the bout, they wrongly assume that the 21 year-old Mancini had dominated Kim all fight long, and that perhaps the fight should have been stopped sooner. However, they would wrong.

Kim, in fact, was slightly ahead in the fight going into the 14th round, having dominated the first eight rounds of the fight. Kim landed the majority of the power shots going into the 14th round, and had an easy time landing his straight left hand to the wide open Mancini. The most troubling aspect going into the fight, however, was how could Kim be the number #1 challenger for Mancini when he hadn’t beaten any top tier fighters coming into the bout.

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