HBO boxing doc ASSAULT IN THE RING

[princemanspoper]

more ******s about to fall victim to the lies,myths and bull**** hbo feeds them.None of you know the whole story and neither does hbo so I you have any ounce of integrity you will boycott this ****ty documentary and demand what hbo is supposed to be giving you sheep

and that is boxing,your supposed to be fans yet your more interested in silly drama


I **** on the documentary and it's thread it has spawned

[ThunderWolf]

more ******s about to fall victim to the lies,myths and bull**** hbo feeds them.None of you know the whole story and neither does hbo so I you have any ounce of integrity you will boycott this ****ty documentary and demand what hbo is supposed to be giving you sheep

and that is boxing,your supposed to be fans yet your more interested in silly drama

I **** on the documentary and it's thread it has spawned

Are you saying that this assault did not happen? What is your basis?

[Don Flamenco]

Lies and myths???

Both lewis and Recto admitted to what they did

Resto Cornered in New York
April 9, 2008

By Declan O’Kelly

Declan O’Kelly FORMER professional welterweight boxer Luis Resto owned up to fighting against “Irish” Billy Collins Junior with tampered gloves in their fight at Madison Square Garden on June 16 1983 at a press conference at Jack Demseys in midtown last Thursday.

The Bronx native, now 47, admitted to press that not only did he fight with gloves that had their padding removed, but that his hands were also cast in tape that was soaked in plaster of Paris.

The gruesome fight that Resto won by unanimous decision after 10 rounds saw Collins absorb tremendous facial damage that resulted in permanently blurred vision due to a torn iris and a decimated career. Collins, who was from Tennessee and had a 14-0 record going into the Resto fight, died nine months later in a car accident.

The fight and its aftermath is the subject of a documentary called Cornered, which will be shown at the Nashville Film Festival later this month. Director Eric Drath was with Resto at Demseys.

In the documentary, Resto apologizes to Collins’ widow, Andrea Collins-Nile, who was on conference call during the press conference.

Collins’ trainer and father, Billy Senior, sensed there was something amiss when he felt Resto’s gloves after the fight and furiously looked for an inquiry into the matter. An investigation found that Resto’s trainer Panama Lewis cut a hole in each of the gloves and removed the padding.

Both Resto and Lewis were jailed for the incident and Resto got a lifetime ban from boxing. The result of the fight was changed to a “no contest.”

Until last week Resto had never openly admitted to any wrongdoing. Asked if that was the only time he used tampered gloves, Resto said he had done it a few times, but only with Lewis.
When asked if she could forgive Resto, Collins’ widow said, “I am not the judge of Luis Resto, but the commission was negligent and did not protect my husband.”

Collins-Nile’s lawyer has filed a motion for the Collins-Resto case to be reopened in Federal District Court against the state of New York.

For more information on this tragic chapter in boxing and information about the documentary visit www.corneredthemovie.com.

In other news...

http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/sport/Articles/Resto-Cornered-in-New-York120408.aspx

[Cereal]

Anybody know where you can download this? I'll green you up.

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9:00 est on hbo.