{"id":150038,"date":"2022-12-06T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mills-lane-legendary-boxing-referee-dead-at-85\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:49:02","slug":"mills-lane-legendary-boxing-referee-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mills-lane-legendary-boxing-referee-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills Lane, legendary boxing referee, dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mills Lane, the legendary boxing referee famous for using the phrase \u201cLet’s get it on,\u201d has died at 85 years old.<\/p>\n

Lane’s son, Tommy, told the Reno Gazette Journal that his father, who said a stroke 20 years ago, had been in hospice for the last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took a significant decline in his overall situation,\u201d Tommy Lane told the outlet. \u201cIt was a quick departure. He was comfortable and he was surrounded by his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Famous boxing ref Mills Lane is dead at 85.<\/figcaption>
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Lane’s wife, Kay, and sons Tommy and Terry were at his side.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never knew how long he had. We kind of felt like we were preparing for this all along., but there’s no such thing as preparing for this,\u201d Tommy Lane said.<\/p>\n

Lane was a prosecutor and later a judge in Nevada, and was a boxing ref from the 1970s through the ’90s. <\/p>\n

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Mills Lane officiated the fight in which Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear.<\/figcaption>
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Mills Lane officiates Tyson-Holyfield II in 1997.<\/figcaption>
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He was the official in the infamous second fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield in 1997, in which Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear off, and quickly became a household name.<\/p>\n

Lane was iconified in MTV’s \u201cCelebrity Death Match,\u201d a satirical show in claymation, where he, of course, served as the referee. <\/p>\n

He stepped down as a judge to become the face of \u201cJudge Mills Lane,\u201d a syndicated reality TV series in which Lane served as an arbitrator. The program ran for three seasons, from 1998-2001. <\/p>\n

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