Editing Jimmy Carter (boxer) (section)

==Taking the World Lightweight Championship for third and final time, November 1954==
On November 17, 1954, Carter took the lightweight championship back from Paddy DeMarco in a fifteen-round TKO at the Cow Palace, in Daily City, California. DeMarco was down in the ninth and fourteenth rounds. Carter had lost his title to DeMarco only seven months earlier.<ref name=BR/>

Carter lost the title for the last time to [[Wallace "Bud" Smith]] at Boston Garden in a fifteen-round split decision on June 29, 1955.<ref name=BR/> Though the bout was close, Carter took one of the worst beatings of his career from Smith requiring fifteen stitches over his eyes. Smith himself needed three stitches to fix a cut over his own eye. The crowd of only 1,983 saw a razor close, hotly contested title match. Two of the officials gave a margin of only one point between the two boxers.<ref>Hoobing, Bob, "Smith Wins Lightweight Title From Carter", ''The Bridgeport Telegram'', Bridgeport, Connecticut, pg. 80, 30 June 1955</ref>

Carter died of a heart attack on September 21, 1994, at the age of 70.<ref name=BRB/>