ABSTRACT
Cheating is not confined to competitors. Owners, managers, and coaches want to win just as fiercely as those who play under their guidance do. Tall stories of cornermen slipping horseshoes into their boxers’ gloves may be laughable, but the most notorious instance of tampering with gloves was the Resto-Collins case of 1983. The unbeaten Billy Collins, then 21, took a terrible pounding from the normally light-hitting Luis Resto, who was 20-7-2 at the time. Collins’s injuries were so bad that he did not fight again and was killed in a car accident nine months later. It was found that padding had been removed from Resto’s gloves. Resto was banned from boxing and, later, convicted of assault, conspiracy, and criminal possession of a deadly weapon (his fists). His cornerman, Panama Al Lewis, was convicted of assault, conspiracy, tampering with a sports contest, and criminal possession of a deadly weapon. They both served over two years in prison.
