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Yeah, I mean, he's never stopped a fight before.
So I get why Detective Orozco, Leroy, is very interested in this.
And it sounds like, yeah, he had follow-up questions of his own.
As did, you know, my colleague, filmmaker Chris Bellman, who sat down with Leroy and interviewed him.
We were told that he guaranteed Vegas the ninth, the fifth round or sixth round or something like that.
And he starts, well, he interviewed Armando.
The boxer?
Yeah.
He says, I said, I was good.
I told him I was okay.
He says, no, you're hurting.
So just the theory here is that Vic Weiss is...
engineering the throwing of matches by Mondo against Sugar Ray Leonard, in particular in that case, in order to pay off what seemed to be gambling bets.
Fixing fights would have been what the mob wanted.
You know, that would have been, yeah, that would have been a, you know, that's what they do.
So he would have been doing that, you know, with their support.
And even Lois Tarkanian, she had, I mean, she had heard a rumor.
There's so many rumors that maybe
They had mob wanted to buy into a boxer that Vic didn't want to let them in and refused.
And they interviewed a guy named Harry Kabakov.