BOXER’S KNUCKLES WERE CAST IN PLASTER
PADDING REMOVED FROM GLOVES
Truth Revealed Behind Assault of “Irish” Billy
Collins Jr.
Luis Resto Comes Clean After 25 Years
Motion Filed Against State of New York
New York City (April 3, 2008) – The truth has finally been
revealed regarding one of sports’ darkest hours. Former prize
fighter Luis Resto admitted today at a press conference in New
York City that he not only battered “Irish” Billy Collins Jr.
for ten rounds during a boxing match, with padding-removed
gloves, but that his knuckles were pre-cast with tape soaked
in plaster of Paris - before the hollowed gloves were placed
over his fists.
As the 25-year-anniversary approaches of the incident that
created a sensational scandal following the Collins-Resto
welterweight bout at Madison Square Garden in 1983, Bronx
native Resto finally came clean – supplying many details
during a monumental media gathering at Jack Demsey’s (correct
spelling) in midtown Manhattan.
The film Cornered exposes the whole truth behind what
really happened that June evening in the world’s most famous
arena. Cornered reveals the lurid chain of events that allowed
a boxer to endure a 30-minute assault. What transpired before
and during the Collins-Resto fight was so heinous it led to
Resto’s conviction, incarceration and lifetime ban from
boxing. The brutally-beaten Collins quickly fell into a tragic
downward spiral.
Cornered picks up with the lives of those people
still affected by the crime 25 years later and answers many
unanswered questions such as why was this despicable act
carried out for the Collins-Resto fight in particular? And,
how did the perpetrators manage to get the tampered gloves
past New York State Athletic Commission officials? The film
helps boxing gain closure to an open wound, but will justice
finally be served for the Collins family estate?
Equipped
with today’s new information, Marc R. Thompson of Manhattan’s
Pulvers, Pulvers and Thompson, the attorney for Andrea
Collins-Nile, widow of late the Billy Collins Jr., has filed
of a motion to reopen the case of the Collins-Resto scandal
with the Federal District Court against the State of New York.
A copy of
the motion has been made available to the media.
4-3-2008
