Assault in the Ring

Assault in the Ring formerly Cornered A Life in the Ring is a 2008 sports documentary film about a controversial boxing match held at Madison Square Garden on June 16, 1983. The Antonio MargaritoMiguel Cotto controversy has drawn comparisons to this fight.

The documentary is shot by former boxing manager Eric Drath, who hears the story of Luis Resto from various boxers. Drath feels compelled to try to exonerate Resto, whose life is in shambles in the aftermath of the fight and subsequent incarceration and ban from boxing. Drath says he believes Resto when he tells him he had no knowledge of the tainted gloves. In the course of the investigation, however, Drath uncovers a transcript of a police interview Resto gave during the criminal investigation. In the transcript, which was not admitted during Restos assault trial, Resto admits that Panama Lewis had taken the gloves into the bathroom with Lee Black. When Drath confronts Resto with this evidence, Resto finally admits that Lewis had indeed taken the gloves.The documentary then focuses on Resto admitting this knowledge to members of Collins and his own family and asking for forgiveness. In the course of this journey, which takes him from the Bronx, to Virginia, to Miami, to Nashville, Resto admits he knew during the course of the fight that the gloves had been tampered with. He then admits he knew well before the fight that not only had the gloves been tampered with but that his hands were encased in plaster of paris, essentially turning his barelypadded fists into hard casts, thus explaining the horrific damage he inflicted on Collins. ........

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