A Wolfe in Sweet Clothing

[H2O Man]

22. Another ex-fighter

who dislikes the sport is my friend Rubin. And for all the same reasons that we've identified, in terms of brutality.

Maybe I've told you this before, but after the death in the Mancini fight, Carter wrote to the various commissions. Move the bottom rope back three inches, so that unconscious fighters don't suffer whiplash as they go down. Though not a factor in that particular fight, Carter was able to identify a number of other high-profile deathes that resulted from this.

The commissions ignored him. It would be an easy change to make, but the commissions and promoters and most managers view fighters as sub-human.

Rubin then wrote to Angelo Dundee, who heartily endorsed the recommendation. But the commissions refused to budge.