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Carlos "Panama" Lewis (November 4, 1945 – September 19, 2020) [1] was an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto for his fight against Billy Collins Jr. in 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following ...
Resto implicated Panama Lewis as the mastermind behind the conspiracy to taint the gloves, but many questions still remain concerning Lewis' motive for gambling his livelihood on glove tampering. While Resto's motives remain unclear, there were allegations that a cocaine dealer had wagered a large sum of money on Resto to win.
Billy Collins was born to a working class Irish family in Antioch, Tennessee.His father and manager, Billy Collins Sr.(1937–2018), was a welterweight professional boxer during the late 1950s and early 1960s who won 38 of his 56 professional fights.
Lewis had Pryor drink from the bottle after the 13th. It was never revealed what was in the bottle, but a reinvigorated Pryor roared out of the corner and stopped Arguello in the 14th.
Lewis died Dec. 11, 2020. He was entitled to burial in the Veterans Cemetery, but it took more than three years of fighting bureaucratic inflexibility for his friends to make that happen. When ...
Some commentators have speculated that the loss of his livelihood drove him into a downward spiral. Collins' father has since speculated that his son’s death was a suicide. [7] [8] After a month's investigation, the New York State Boxing Commission determined that Resto's trainer, Panama Lewis, had removed the padding from Resto's gloves. It ...
He tells Bevan Hurley Lewis’ death this week ‘puts the pursuit of justice to an end’ Seven murders by cyanide-laced Tylenol will never be solved. But the prime suspect’s death brings justice
Pryor died on October 9, 2016. Arguello was the flag carrier for Nicaragua in the 2008 Summer Olympics. In a 2009 documentary, former Lewis-trained boxer Luis Resto revealed that Panama Lewis would break apart antihistamine pills and pour the medicine into his water, giving him greater lung capacity in the later rounds of a fight. This ...