Arthur Mercante dead at 90

http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-obit-mercante

 

Great man, and a true credit to the sport.

Ref'd the biggest fight ever, Frazier-Ali 1.

Arthur was one of the few figures in the sport you seldom heard a bad word about, and he will be missed.

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Your buddy Ron Lipton wouldn't agree to that ::

But no doubt, RIP to Arthur. At the very least, he most certainly lived a full life.

 

I said seldom, Jake.::

And I was thinking about Ronnie when I put that in.

 

RIP

 

Amen to the well-wishers. In addition to The Fight Of The Century, he had the pleasure of officiating an all-time ring legend IMO, in Ricardo Lopez, in what proved to be the swan-song for both Mercante & Lopez.

Well done, Sir.

 

Ah, point well taken.

 

Probably the most famous ref of all time

 

Certainly of the last few decades, at the least.