What boxer, nicknamed Boom Boom, faced off against Duk Koo Kim in 1982, earning the TKO in the 14th round, and it ended with Kim lapsing into a coma before dying 4 days later?
Kim Duk-koo twelve. The WBA and the IBF followed the WBC in 1987. When the WBO was formed in 1988, it immediately began operating with 12-round world championship bouts. In the years after Kim's death new medical procedures were introduced to fighters' pre-fight checkups, such as electrocardiograms, brain tests, and lung tests. As one boxing leader put it, "A fighter's check-ups before fights used to consist of blood pressure and heartbeat checks before 1982. Not anymore." Kim Duk-koo Kim Duk-Koo (January 8, 1959November 18, 1982) was a South Korean boxer who died following a world championship boxing match against Ray Mancini. His
Kim Duk-koo nineteen seconds into the 14th round. Ralph Wiley of "Sports Illustrated", covering the fight, would later recall Kim pulling himself up the ropes as he was dying "one of the greatest physical feats I had ever witnessed." Minutes after the fight was over, Kim collapsed into a coma and was removed from the Caesars Palace arena on a stretcher and taken to the Desert Springs Hospital. At the hospital, he was found to have a subdural hematoma consisting of 100 cubic centimeters of blood in his skull. Emergency brain surgery was performed at the hospital to try to save him,