Honestly, it was bad, and I don't disagree with the lifetime ban, but I think perhaps we go too far in speaking about how bad it was. I'm not sure you can really pin so much of Collins's later tragedy on the loaded gloves, and it's hard to say how much it really effects the chances of career ending injury. It's certainly not 0% in a fair fight, nor 100% in one like that. It's a bit like the hypothetical where a drug cheat kills an opponent. But given how pervasive PED use is, and the number who've died from injuries in the ring, it'd be pretty wrong to call it murder as some would want to. Really, other than PEDs being impossible to police, I find it hard to draw a moral distinction between PED use and loaded gloves. I will say I actually think both are significantly worse than something like Tyson biting Holyfield's ear. Since both are premeditated and calculated. Morality is messy.
How didnt Collins realise during the match there was cement or other hard substances hidden into the gloves? It was enough to touch them!
