Scoring A Tv Fight
January, 1954
When Tommy Collins, a scrappy young lightweight, was battered into seeming helplessness and dropped to the ring canvas ten times in less than four rounds by lightweight champion Jimmy Carter during a title bout last summer, video fans across the nation raised a howl.Local TV stations and newspapers were barraged with protests from outraged televiewers. The bout and its officiating were called vicious, inhuman and incompetent. But the following day Tommy Collins insisted he had never really been...
