Boxing and the mob

[irishdave]

Boxing and the mob

If you didn’t know

 

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[BB]

Here's some more on the topic -

Naked Sport. Early 90's PBS doc on how fights are made and fixed -

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Don King Unauthorized. PBS's look at how he rose up in the boxing world. He absolutely hated this when it came out -

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Boxing and The Mob. This one is older, abouthe the early days of fight fixing -

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Somewhat similar -

Frontline's "An Unauthorized History of The NFL". A look at the Mafia and all the fixing that went on in the NFL to help Vegas years ago -

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[stuntmovie]

BB, ETAL, "An Unauthorized History of The NFL".

I just finished watching the complete video regarding the 'so called' mob influence with the NFL, its participants, and owners .

Have there been any publicized, similar problems since those good old days within the NFL ??

[BB]

BB, ETAL, "An Unauthorized History of The NFL".

I just finished watching the complete video regarding the 'so called' mob influence with the NFL, its participants, and owners .

Have there been any publicized, similar problems since those good old days within the NFL ??

Dan Modea, a big time investagative reporter, wrote a book called "Inferference" back in the late 80's, where he named a lot of names. Art Modell was the biggest I remember -

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I haven't heard much after that.

Edit 2014 new edition interview -

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Back in the early 2000's, there was talk of Russian mob influence in the NHL  -

https://archive.org/details/MafiaPowerPlay .

And of course, there was the NBA ref scandal a few years ago.