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Pablo Torre

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

Yeah, I mean, he's never stopped a fight before.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

So I get why Detective Orozco, Leroy, is very interested in this.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

And it sounds like, yeah, he had follow-up questions of his own.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

As did, you know, my colleague, filmmaker Chris Bellman, who sat down with Leroy and interviewed him.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

We were told that he guaranteed Vegas the ninth, the fifth round or sixth round or something like that.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

And he starts, well, he interviewed Armando.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

The boxer?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

Yeah.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

He says, I said, I was good.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

I told him I was okay.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

He says, no, you're hurting.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

So just the theory here is that Vic Weiss is...

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

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.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

Fixing fights would have been what the mob wanted.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

You know, that would have been, yeah, that would have been a, you know, that's what they do.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

So he would have been doing that, you know, with their support.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

And even Lois Tarkanian, she had, I mean, she had heard a rumor.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

There's so many rumors that maybe

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

They had mob wanted to buy into a boxer that Vic didn't want to let them in and refused.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas

And they interviewed a guy named Harry Kabakov.