Editing Ray Mancini (section)

===WBA Lightweight champion===
On May 8, 1982, in a match held at [[The Aladdin]] in [[Las Vegas]], he challenged the new [[World Boxing Association]] lightweight champion, [[Arturo Frias]].<ref>
{{Cite news | title = This Mancini match has different ring |newspaper = Youngstown Vindicator| page = 1 | date = April 22, 1989}}</ref> Fifteen seconds into the fight, Frias caught Mancini with a left hook to the chin and another combination made Mancini bleed from his eyebrow. Mancini recovered and dropped Frias right in the center of the ring with a combination. Dazed, Frias got backed up, and Mancini immediately went on the offensive and trapped Frias against the ropes. After many unanswered blows, referee Richard Greene stopped the fight at 2:54 in the first round, and the Mancini family finally had a world champion.<ref name="vindy-12-05-99">{{Cite news | first = John | last = Bassetti | title = Valley boxers, led by Mancini, ruled the ring
|newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator | date = December 5, 1999}}</ref>

Mancini's first title defense, against former world champion [[Ernesto España]], went smoothly with a Mancini [[knockout]] win in the 6th round.

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