BOOM BOOM IN CANNOCK
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
RAY “BOOM BOOM” MANCINI is like royalty in our game. Never forget that.
His series of fights in the early Eighties, fights watched by millions, fights that shaped a decade, live on in grainy colour. Then, a VHS of Mancini’s fights was hard currency.
He was a sensation at 20 when he fought for a world title for the first time, just 23 when he walked away for the first time. He looked like a pop star – that is the right description – from the Seventies and slugged like a veteran from the Fifties. His
