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Boxing officials and supporters yesterday opposed plans to tighten the rules on the sport in Massachusetts. One asserted proposed changes were planned only to "fool the television audience." That assertion came from Tommy Rawson, who was the referee in the Tommy Collins-Jimmy Carter lightweight championship bout last month...
...first of ten brutal knockdowns in less than five minutes of fighting. By the time Collins' seconds had climbed into the ring and forced reluctant Referee Tommy Rawson to stop the fight in the fourth round, 24-year-old Boxer Collins was a rubbery-legged, bloody-faced wreck of a man who had to be carried to his corner. Even Announcer Jimmy Powers, speaking for the sponsor, Gillette Safety Razor, murmured that "it was incredible that they...
...buzz from viewers. "That fight set boxing back 400 years," protested a fan in Pittsburgh. In San Francisco a man shut off his TV set because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything we've done to make...
...Boston, Referee Rawson appeared surprised by the uproar. He explained that Collins, though repeatedly knocked down, "was never hit badly." What was more, the one-sided fight probably looked worse on television than it actually was. Said Rawson: "I didn't want to deny Collins that one chance of winning the greatest fight of his life." At week's end, the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission decided that "there was no negligence on the part of any official connected with the contest, and apparently Collins suffered no serious damage...
...boxing commission picked referee Tommy Rawson, Lamer said, on his record of handling other championship bouts and fighters...