January 12, 2023
Flash From the Past: Las Vegas Referee Mitch Hapbern Committed Suicide in August of 2000 – By Sue TL Fox
It was a sad and total shock to many in the boxing world that 33 years old Mitch Hapbern took his own life with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Mitch was a very respected boxing referee that had Referee’d many fights throughout his career. I covered a female bout between Karen Bill vs. Maria Johansson