![]() You can at least see excerpts on YouTube. If he did question what was going on, Panama Lewis, a loud, controlling type, quickly and vocally stifled his fighter. He saw, said nothing, put them on and went out and fought. Not a bright man-and that's an understatement-he probably never gave thought as to what was happening to his gloves in the locker room that fateful night of June 16, 1983. He followed what was being done to his gloves. He is uneducated and a likable, pathetic soul. No state athletic commission will license him. He can train them, but he cannot work their corners. Lewis continues to train fighters at a gym near his home in Florida. But upon release, are you going back to work at the day care center? I think you know the answer to that. If you work in a children's day care center and abuse children, you may go to jail if you are caught. He said he was unable to make money in boxing. The last year I was commissioner (1995), he came in for a Second's License. At first, he came in for his Boxer's License. Lewis never attempted to visit me for his license again. I could grant them or deny them a license. I was the Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. They were sent to prison for several years.īy the time they got out, I was no longer Editor-in-Chief of The Ring. They were found guilty of assualt, conspiracy and criminal possession of a deadly weapon. The editorial opened up a legal case, and both Lewis and Resto were put on trial. He had told me-and others-than Panama Lewis had doctored Resto's gloves.Īll I knew was that somebody had done it and wrote in my editorial following Collins' death, that “Billy Collins is now spending eternity in paradise.and one day, the men who removed the padding from the gloves will meet their maker and be sent to burn in the fires of hell for the same amount of time.” One cornerman, Artie Curley, died of cancer not long after the incident. His cornermen pointed fingers at each other and whispered behind each other's backs. Resto, who had worn the gloves which did the damage to Collins, swore he didn't know the gloves had been tampered with. My editorial in The Ring was called “Murder, Plain and Simple.” In March, 1984, while in the depths of depression, he was behind the wheel of his car when it spun off a dirt road near his home in Tennessee. In a massive depression, he took to alcohol and drugs. Not only would he never get a title shot, he'd never fight again.īilly Collins, Jr.'s world fell apart. ![]() The punches caused severe swelling, cuts and deep bruises. ![]() They bruised his face unlike any fighter has ever been bruised. Padded leather had not crashed into Collins' boyishly-handsome face for 30-minutes. Much of the horsehair padding had been removed from the knuckle area of both gloves. The story was that Collins had taken the beating from gloves which had been tampered with. ![]()
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