I just wanted to remind all of our readers that the boxing documentary Assault in the Ring debuts tonight at 10:00pm Eastern on HBO. The documentary covers the Billy Collins vs. Luis Resto fight that took place in 1983. This fight may sound a little familiar and if so it is because I talked about it on this site when discussing the Shane Mosley/Antonio Margarito fight when a plasterlike substance was found on Margarito’s gloves.
I covered a lot of the story in the above linked article but without having watched the film yet I still think it is safe to say it will be a combination of sad, frustrating, enraging, and tragic. As a combat sports fan this is the kind of story we need to familiarize ourselves with for the future. We can always hope that something like this will never happen in MMA but we’ve all heard stories in the past of glove and wrap tampering and it is all but assured that we will see something of this nature happen somewhere down the road. It is just a sad truth of the fight game that there will always be someone looking for an advantage and eventually someone goes to an unbelievable extreme.
This is a story worth checking out and I hope as combat sports fans you take the time to watch it.
Trailer for the film (at this point it was still titled Cornered before HBO purchased the rights):