Editing Ray Mancini (section)

===Match against Duk Koo Kim===
[[File:Duk Koo Kim vs Ray Mancini ticket.png|thumb|Ticket stub for Mancini's fight against Duk Koo Kim]]

On November 13, 1982, a 21-year-old Mancini met 27-year-old [[South Korea]]n challenger [[Duk Koo Kim]]. Kim had struggled to make the {{convert|135|lb|kg|adj=on}} weight limit, and had to lose several pounds shortly before the fight. The title bout, at [[Caesars Palace]] in Las Vegas, was televised live on [[CBS Sports]]. Mancini won by TKO in the 14th round. Moments after the fight ended, Kim collapsed and fell into a coma, having suffered a [[subdural hematoma]], and died five days later.<ref name="ap-11-18-82">
{{Cite news
| title = Nevada Court Rules Kim 'Legally Dead'
| newspaper = [[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|Youngstown Vindicator]]
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1SFAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eVgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1075%2C1010069
| location = Youngstown, Ohio
| agency = Associated Press
| date = November 18, 1982
| page = 26
}}</ref> The week after his death, the cover of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' magazine showed Mancini and Kim battling, under the title "Tragedy in the Ring".<ref name=talltj>{{cite magazine |last=Wiley |first=Ralph |date=November 22, 1982 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1126122/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118103829/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1126122/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 18, 2009 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |title=Then all the joy turned to sorrow |page=26}}</ref>

Mancini went to the funeral in South Korea and fell into a deep depression afterwards.<ref name="vindy-11-17-82"/> He has said that the hardest moments came when people approached him and asked if he was the boxer who "killed" Duk Koo Kim. Mancini went through a period of reflection and blamed himself for Kim's death. In addition, Kim's mother died by suicide three months after the fight, and the bout's referee, [[Richard Green (referee)|Richard Green]], killed himself in July 1983.<ref name="vindy-11-13-2007">
{{Cite news
| title = After 25 years, Kim death still stings Mancini: ESPN airs documentary tonight that revisits 1982 tragedy
| newspaper = [[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|Youngstown Vindicator]]
| location = Youngstown, Ohio
| date = November 13, 2007
}}</ref>

As a result of Kim's death, the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] took steps to shorten its title bouts to a maximum of 12 rounds. The [[World Boxing Association|WBA]] and [[WBO]] followed in 1988, and the [[International Boxing Federation|IBF]] in 1989.<ref name="vindy-11-13-2007"/>