Marty Sammon

Name: Marty Sammon
Birth Name: Martin Patrick Sammon Jr.
Hometown: Santa Clara, California, USA
Birthplace: Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Died: 2017-09-14 (Age:83)
Judge: Record
Referee: Record

• Sammon worked as a stockbroker in San Jose, California.
• Officiated 50+ World Championship matches as judge or referee.
• Listed as "Referee #5" in the credits for the 2004 Academy Award Winning motion picture Million Dollar Baby.
• Member of the boxing team at Santa Clara University, where he earned a degree in finance in the mid-1950s. Also as a member of the ROTC, Sammon was "commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army after graduation."
• First experience as a referee came at San Quentin State Prison where he agreed to referee bouts between the inmates. Note: He was not an inmate.

Source: Robert Mladinich. www.TheSweetScience.com 28 Feb 2005