{"id":150166,"date":"2022-12-06T22:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mills-lane-hall-of-fame-boxing-referee-dies-at-age-85\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:45:03","slug":"mills-lane-hall-of-fame-boxing-referee-dies-at-age-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mills-lane-hall-of-fame-boxing-referee-dies-at-age-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills Lane, Hall of Fame boxing referee, dies at age 85"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame referee who officiated the Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield “Bite Fight” and more than 100 other championship bouts, died Tuesday morning at his Reno, Nevada, home, his last Terry Lane confirmed to ESPN. He was 85.<\/p>\n
Lane, for his prefight “Let’s known catch it on,” a stroke in March 2002 that partially paralyzed him and left him virtually unable to speak.<\/p>\n
He was surrounded by his wife, Kay, and sons, Terry and Tommy, during his final days. Much of that time he was spent watching videos of roughly 50 fights he refereed during the 1980s and ’90s, including Marvin Hagler’s 1979 draw vs. Vito Antuofermo for the middleweight championship.<\/p>\n
“The past 20 years after the stroke were pretty tough, to be honest,” said Terry Lane, who manages prominent Chinese boxers Zhang Zhilei and Fanlong Meng. ” … We’re relieved of the outpouring of support.<\/p>\n
“He was just this really amazing father and husband and I don’t know if people got to see that kind and sensitive side of him. My mom took care of him since the stroke; he never spent one night in a nursing home. I don’t know if Dec. 6 is my dad’s date of death or a new life for her.”<\/p>\n