Ray Mancini. The Good Son:

[NYDominican]

The documentary "The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini". ------------


How did you like it?



What Ray said in the documentary, did you think that it was accurate?



What other people in the documentary stated, did you think that it was accurate?

[NYDominican]

Rays fight against Duek-Koo Kim on November 13, 1982. Where Mancini won by a stoppage. Where a few days later, Duek died.



Do you think that Duek-Koo Kim dying greatly affected Rays psyche. Affected Mancinis intensity in his fights which he had after the Duek fight?



Do you think that it greatly affected Ray Mancinis intensity in his fights against Livingstone Bramble, Hector Camacho, and Greg Haugen?

[palooka]

I read the biography of Mancini on holiday and really enjoyed it; he was a real handful and the death of Kim affected everyone concerned badly. Mancini came across as a decent and flawed man but he seemed likeable.

[Ade L]

I had the honour to meet Ray this week and he's a terrific guy & a complete gentleman

[elmersalsa]

Killing a man in the ring affects anybody. The great Ezzard Charles lost his killing instincts when he killed Sam Baroudi. The great Emile Griffith did lost his killing instinct when he stopped Benny "Kid" Paret in their rubber match. It probably did the same to Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. Some can't handle it, some could. I don't know if that affected the great Sugar Ray Robinson when he killed Jimmy Doyle. Ironically, he dreamed about it.

But, no matter what, it got to have some effect on your mind.

[ClivePatrickLyons]

Killing a man in the ring affects anybody. The great Ezzard Charles lost his killing instincts when he killed Sam Baroudi. The great Emile Griffith did lost his killing instinct when he stopped Benny "Kid" Paret in their rubber match. It probably did the same to Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. Some can't handle it, some could. I don't know if that affected the great Sugar Ray Robinson when he killed Jimmy Doyle. Ironically, he dreamed about it.

But, no matter what, it got to have some effect on your mind.

The Pound For Pound Doco done on SRR he sais in it that for a long time he could not hit a man hard he said it was a very trying time for him
I suspect it was a event that this great man took to his grave the guilt he went through for the rest of his life especially how he SRR tried to pull
out of the fight after dreaming the night before he killed Doyle in the fight......The next morning he told his trainer what he dreamed and that he wasn't going to fight they called a priest to talk him in to going ahead with the fight and just like he dreamed he Doyle passed away after the fight
I heard of tragedy's like this in boxing but not one quite like SRR tragic fight with poor Jimmy Doyle this would have sent a lesser man around the bend and it wasn't just poor Boom Boom who was affected by the event's that took place in the Kim fight not long after the ref committed suicide
and so did Kims Mother................very sad..............no matter how tough you are that's gotta affect you.