Joey Giardello, the middleweight boxing champion of the 1960s who fought for nearly two decades but was equally remembered for a legal dispute involving the movie depiction of his title fight with Rubin ”Hurricane” Carter, died Thursday in Cherry Hill, N.J. He was 78.

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