Mills Lane

Mills Lane ( born November 12, 1936 in Combalee, South Carolina) is an American lawyer, judge and ring "Celebrity Deathmatch " figure.

Lane comes from a well known family from Georgia. His father owned the First National Bank of Atlanta, which has its headquarters in Savannah. However, Lane had other interests, so in 1956 he joined the United States Marine Corps. During his time in the Marines, he was boxer ( southpaw ) and was in the East soon widely known as welterweight champ. After leaving the Marines, he enrolled at the University of Nevada in Reno and was the NCAA champ.

In his college years, he finally became a professional boxer. He finished his professional career by its own account, because he knew he would never be able to beat Emile Griffith.

Lane graduated from UNR in 1963 with a business degree and wrote a few years later at the University of Utah, in order there to visit the law school. He graduated as a lawyer and later became district attorney of Washoe County District in Reno. In 1979 he was deputy sheriff. It was the same year in which he referee at a boxing match of the World Cup was the first time when Vito Antuofermo defended his world champion middleweight title over 15 rounds against Marvin Hagler. Lane subsequently took over 100 world championship fights in part as a referee.

In 1982, he coined the slogan Let 's get it on! Who later became his standard greeting. He used it first during the instructions before the fight Larry Holmes against Gerry Cooney in the World Championships in the heavyweight division.

Lanes name became known in 1997 during the night throughout the United States, as he led the rematch between the boxing heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and his challenger Mike Tyson. After Tyson Holyfield had bitten twice, Lane disqualified him. His shirt was stained with blood there, and he sold it to a collector of memorabilia that same night for a large sum of money. In 1998, his show Judge Mills Lane her debut on national television, where she stayed until 2001. In addition, the producers of the MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch turned to him with the desire to integrate his person and his voice in her mission as a referee. Lane accepted the offer and was thus also an awareness on MTV.

Soon after, Lane withdrew from boxing back as a referee. Today he lives in New York with his wife and two sons in the Dakota Building. 2002 Lane suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed. That's why he still has trouble speaking. His adopted home of Reno, Nevada, celebrated him on 27 December 2004, and proclaimed this as Mills Lane Day. On this day, Lane had his first public appearance in years, at the dedication of a new courthouse, which should bear his name after completion.