Boxer Joey Giardello, 78
Posted: Monday, September 8th, 2008 10:49 pmJoey Giardello, a former middleweight boxing champion who won a decision over Rubin Carter in 1964 and then sued over how the fight was depicted in the 1999 film “The Hurricane,” has died. He was 78.
Giardello died Thursday of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Cherry Hill, N.J., the International Boxing Hall of Fame announced.
Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1993, Giardello had a 101-25-7 record with 33 knockouts while fighting from 1948 to 1967. …
He successfully defended the belt against Carter in a unanimous decision in Philadelphia the next year before relinquishing it to Tiger in 1965. Two years later, he retired from the ring. Giardello followed a tortuous path to boxing’s pinnacle, and his life outside the ring was marked by colorful episodes. … Read full obituary
