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ESPN - Resto: Wraps were doctored with plaster in fight vs. Collins - Boxing
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Originally Posted by ESPN.com
Resto: Wraps were doctored with plaster in fight vs. Collins
Former welterweight Luis Resto has acknowledged that the beating he gave the late Billy Collins Jr. in 1983 -- in which, over 10 rounds, he pounded Collins with tampered gloves that each had two inches of padding removed -- was even worse than previously believed.
Resto, at a news conference on Thursday in New York, acknowledged that the tape used to wrap his hands in that fight had been soaked in plaster of Paris, giving him a pair of hardened casts underneath his unpadded gloves.
Collins suffered from blurred vision and depression after the June 16, 1983 fight. He died in a car accident about nine months later.
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