I a trainer revealed a secret dive before death

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  1. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It was by all accounts a legitimate solar plexus shot that dropped Britton.
    Leonard would have been WARNED at the most if it was just a foul shot in the labonza . So Leonard to "follow orders", had no other choice but to
    foul out Britton who might not have beaten the 10 count...
     
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  2. SP_Mauler

    SP_Mauler Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yea these threads are great. Thanks Bert.
     
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  3. edward morbius

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    I don't think the "dive" was all that secret. I remember reading about it in the Ring Magazine in the late fifties or early sixties.

    It was more like the LaMotta thing. It just confirmed what everyone had always suspected.
     
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  4. The Funny Man 7

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    Hmm, interesting thought BB. It does seem out of character for Leonard to lose his head.

    What did his manager have to gain by coming out with a false claim about his fighter? One possibility: maybe he wanted attention. He could have felt that he was unfairly shunted aside into anonymity with the passage. Maybe he was trying to force himself into history with an extravagent lie.
     
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  5. burt bienstock

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    Mannie Seamon's reputation was secured more so with the immortal Joe Louis,when Jack blackburn died and Louis's braintrust chose Mannie Seaman to supplant Chappie Blackburn as chief trainer...Seamon had NADA to gain by disclosing his hidden "secret". Knowing that his life was ending
    soon,and all participants were dead, Seamon unburdened his soul to a boxing writer finally...
     
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