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Stickman wrote: "As for allegations of loaded gloves....it's virtually impossible in boxing today. They keep to close watch on that sort of thing."
How exactly do they do that? The ref sure doesn't check the gloves in the ring. How do they prevent say a small sharp object from being unobtrusively stuck in the lacing or something?
A few notorious glove-fixing cases that came to light were Panama Lewis in 1983, Angelo Dundee fixing Clay's glove (and now the politically corrected cover up of that incident in their attempt to rewrite history and glorify Clay-Ali - I watched an ESPN film of Clay-Cooper fight wherein they spliced together the rounds in which Dundee did his criminal trick and made it look as though Clay had no additional time between the rounds, and in fact they didn't even say a word about it - and why hasn't Sir Henry Cooper been retroactively awarded the win in that first fight?)
When I was in boxing in NY an old time trainer in NY - a relative of Abe Simon who had fought Joe Louis - told me that it was common knowledge amongst boxing insiders that Joe Louis' gloves were loaded for his second fight with Schmeling.
So who checks the boxing gloves? And even if someone does check them in the locker room, what stops something from being done to them - like something sharp getting slipped in the lacing - between the locker room and the ring? Didn't refs used to look at the gloves before the fight started in the old days?
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How exactly do they do that? The ref sure doesn't check the gloves in the ring. How do they prevent say a small sharp object from being unobtrusively stuck in the lacing or something?
A few notorious glove-fixing cases that came to light were Panama Lewis in 1983, Angelo Dundee fixing Clay's glove (and now the politically corrected cover up of that incident in their attempt to rewrite history and glorify Clay-Ali - I watched an ESPN film of Clay-Cooper fight wherein they spliced together the rounds in which Dundee did his criminal trick and made it look as though Clay had no additional time between the rounds, and in fact they didn't even say a word about it - and why hasn't Sir Henry Cooper been retroactively awarded the win in that first fight?)
When I was in boxing in NY an old time trainer in NY - a relative of Abe Simon who had fought Joe Louis - told me that it was common knowledge amongst boxing insiders that Joe Louis' gloves were loaded for his second fight with Schmeling.
So who checks the boxing gloves? And even if someone does check them in the locker room, what stops something from being done to them - like something sharp getting slipped in the lacing - between the locker room and the ring? Didn't refs used to look at the gloves before the fight started in the old days?
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