Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
Quote Originally Posted by p4pking View Post
And how the hell wouldn't the entire audience, both camps, anyone watching, the ref, have known something was VERY WRONG. Resto was a FEATHER FISTED FIGHTER FFS... AND EVERY PUNC HE LANDS SOUNDS LIKE A BRICK BEING SMASHED. Whatever officials or state commisioners were ringside who had ever seen Resto fight should have been in the ring after the first freaking round demanding the gloves be checked. I suppose the fact that he was such an unheralded journeyman would have meant few people had seen him fight before outside his own camp. Who the hell was this scumbags promoter?? What about chief seconds, cutman, every single person even remotely in the know of what was going on should have done serious jail time. By not entering the ring to DQ Resto, his entire camp were accesories to malicious assault. Even if they didn't know exactly what Lewis had done before the fight started(highly unlikely)
If i was Billy Collins Jr father and i heard my son telling me he feels like he is getting hit by a brick from a feather fisted fighter. I don't care if he would of got him DQ. I would of stormed over the other side of the ring and examined them gloves straight away. And that would of saved his life and stopped him from getting permanent injuries. But its easy saying that now i don't think anyone would believe at the time that someone could do something as cowardly as that.

Yea good point man, I had thought about that before I posted. Clearly it's alot easier to realize something was wrong with hindsight. I suppose that there was nothing done at the time because it was so unprecedented. I still can't imagine that noone thought anything was up though... Just the sound of Resto's punches was sickening. Surely if Collins, or anyone in his camp had seen footage of Resto fight they could have imagined there was something up... Although I do suppose footage of a complete journeyman was harder to come by those days.