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Have and boxers actually ever died like there and then in the ring? who?
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I almost said Du Ku Kim but I forgot he died in the hospital.
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It was an accumulation of punches he was taking throughout the fight he had with Mancini but I think it was a quick flurry combo that put Kim down.It has been so long since I have seen that fight. I will never forget how Du Ku Kim fell to the canvas and the empty look he had in his eyes. It was a sick morbid reality to our sport.Originally posted by Jordee-G View Post
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Pretty much.....................Originally posted by stickandmove12 View Post
Onlookers claimed that Baer slugged Campbell "unmercifully" in the 5th round after he was already unconscious but had held onto his feet by the ropes. Had the referee not intervened, Campbell would have been killed outright.[citation needed]
(UP) Doctors worked over Campbell in the open-air ring at the baseball park for half an hour and, failing to revive him, took him to a local hospital where other physicians and nurses worked over him for several hours. Campbell died from a severe concussion of the brain. Doctors later discovered that his brain had been knocked loose from the connective tissue inside his head.
Brain specialist Dr. Tilton E. Tillman "declared death had been caused by a succession of blows on the jaw and not by any struck on the rear of the head," and that Campbell's brain had been "knocked completely loose from his skull." [Oakland Tribune - September 26, 1930]
The California State Boxing Commission soon suspended Referee Irwin for his failure to stop the fight, J. Hamilton Lorimer (Baer's manager), Carol E. Working and Tom Maloney (Campbell's managers), and seconds Tillie "Kid" Herman, Ray Carlin, Frankie Burns, and Larry Morrison.
Campbell's professional record was 33-4-2 and one no contest with 26 knockouts wins.Comment
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Gerald McClellan.Comment
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