Collins/Resto Case To Be Reopened?
By Boxing News March 28th, 2008BOXING’S MOST SHAMEFUL CRIME
FULLY EXPOSED AT LAST
News Conference To Reveal New Information Regarding Collins-Resto Scandal
Official Motion Being Filed Against New York State
Plus Never-Before-Seen Reenactment of Boxing’s Dirtiest Crime
NEW YORK (March 28, 2008) – The date of June 16, 1983, forever will taint the history
of New York sports and the world of boxing. That evening at Madison Square Garden, a
shameful chain of events ended a promising young boxer’s career and changed the lives
of many associated with the tragic scandal.
Thursday, April 3, in New York City
details will be revealed regarding the filing of a
motion to reopen the case of the Collins-Resto scandal with the Federal Court of Claims
against the State of New York.
Nashville, Tennessee’s ‘Irish’ Billy Collins Jr. was an undefeated welterweight and
fulfilling every boxer’s dream of fighting in the world’s most famous arena. Collins’
opponent, Luis Resto, had his own aspirations by playing the spoiler role as the Bronx
underdog who rose to the occasion in front of the hometown fans. What transpired in the
Collins-Resto fight was so heinous it led to Resto’s conviction, incarceration and lifetime
ban from boxing.
Now, as the 25th anniversary of the incident approaches, new evidence has been
uncovered during the making of the film Cornered—which exposes the true nature of the
tragic crime to be much worse than previously reported or known.
“New revelations may lead to revived litigation,� said Marc R. Thompson of Manhattan’s
Pulvers, Pulvers and Thompson, the attorney for Andrea Collins-Nile, widow of late the
Billy Collins Jr.
Now, 25 years later, it’s asked: Will justice finally be served for the Collins family and
estate? Will the sport of boxing finally gain closure of this open wound? The answers
start coming forth Thursday, April 3.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I doubt if justice is ever served for anybody. There is a lot of backrooming in the hurt business to keep corruption and mythology in effect. Luis Resto was always a thug, even in the amateur. He did a lot of foul things that was uncovered. His dream of representing the USA in the 1976 Olympics was destroyed in the National AAU by a slick boxing teenager named Ronnie Adams. Adams had speed to burn. He hit Resto about 20 punches to one. Every time that Resto caught the 16-year-old teenager, he would hit the kid with rabbit and kidney punches. The kid would scream and even went down from Resto’s strangefully power shots. By the third round, Resto was disqualified for continously kidney and rabbit punching. After the bout, the coach of Adams asked the official glovers for Resto’s gloves to examine them. As he examined the gloves, he discovered that the cotton in the gloves had been removed and/or repositioned. The coach brought this to the attention of the AAU officials, but they refused to investigate since Resto was already out of the tournament. What Resto did became amateur boxing legend and paranoia. No one was surprise when Resto was finally caught in the professionals. His bout with Collins was not Resto’s first time doing it, it was he first time to get caught. Taken filling or cotton out of the gloves was historical in boxing. It was known as one of the Tricks of the Trade. And just about everybody knew it. And dirty fighters did it. Holla!