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Luis Resto (born June 11, 1955) is a Puerto Rican former boxer based in The ... Billy Collins Jr. NC 10 Jun 16, 1983: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York ...
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. Collins Jr. followed his father's footsteps and started training with him since a very young age.
Collins' suffered major eye injuries and his promising boxing career was finished. Nine months later, Collins died in an auto accident. Resto and his trainer Panama Lewis were sentenced to prison for illegal tampering with the gloves. The documentary was shot by former boxing manager Eric Drath, who heard the story of Luis Resto from various ...
The most notorious incident in Lewis's career took place on June 16, 1983. A fighter he was training, Luis Resto, was fighting undefeated prospect Billy Collins Jr. in a bout televised by ABC's Wide World of Sports. The fight was the undercard for a fight between Roberto Durán and Davey Moore. [3]
One good example of an unusual circumstance occurred in 1983, on the undercard of the fight where Roberto Durán beat Davey Moore for the World Jr. Middleweight title at the Madison Square Garden, when Luis Resto and Billy Collins Jr boxed ten rounds. Resto appeared to win the fight cleanly, and the scorers gave the match to Resto.
Collins, Jr. sustained career ending injuries to his eyes and died on March 6, 1984, when he crashed his car in Antioch, Tennessee, while Resto and Resto's trainer Panama Lewis were tried in court during 1986 and sentenced to three and six years in jail, respectively, Resto being released in 1989 and Lewis in 1990. [24]
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Some reasons for this may include counting errors, misdeclaration, and retroactive disqualification due to rule violations. There has only been one case of a unanimous decision being overturned, in a 1983 fight between Luis Resto and Billy Collins Jr, where Resto