It is written that his fight with a prime Sugar Ray Robinson was a points win for Ray but "..there were scattered boos when the decision was announced" with him cutting Ray over the left eye.....he also beat (an albeit young) future WBA heavyweight champ Jimmy Ellis...lost to Hurricane Carter on points but not before flooring Carter...lost a very tight decision on paper to Dick Tiger (one judge had it a draw)...he beat Johnny Bratton twice...and lost to Joey Giardello on a split decision.
..and after what was to some a dubious split points defeat, when he was an old fighter at that stage, against Joey Archer, he said afterwards - "That's OK with me, I beat Archer even if I didn't get the decision. But that's an old story with me." (A poll of 14 boxing writers had 8 scoring it for Mims, 5 scoring for Archer and 1 called it a draw)
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"Joey Giardello, blood gushing from a slashed face, thrust himself into the middleweight sweepstakes Wednesday night with a heroic finish that gained him a 10 round split decision over Holly Mims. Giardello rallied from a beating in the 8th round and won the verdict in the nationally televised slugfest. Mims opened a slight cut over Giardello's left eye in the 1st but really tore a gash on the right side of Joey's face in the furious 8th. A left-right hurt Giardello early in the session and a jolting left buckled him near the end. But Giardello, who had to win to stay in the running for the middleweight title stripped from Ray Robinson by the NBA, held off Mims in the 9th and won the chips-down 10th on all three cards." -Associated Press
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1962.
Rubin Carter was scheduled to meet Gomeo Brennan, but Brennan withdrew the day of the fight due to an illness. Mims accepted the bout at 3:00 p.m. and flew from Washington D.C. to New York City. At 6:30 p.m., Mims passed a physical examination and was cleared to fight.
Carter was a 4-1 favorite.
Mims, who had been fighting since 1948, had only been floored by Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 and Charley Green in 1955.
Mims floored Carter in the fourth round with a right to the chin. Carter went down on one knee and jumped up at the count of one.
Sugar Ray Robinson, who outpointed Mims in 1951, was in the audience.
