LARRY HOLMES vs RENALDO SNIPES official’s badge Imminent Danger controversy 1981

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LARRY HOLMES vs RENALDO SNIPES official’s badge Imminent Danger controversy 1981
This is a previously-owned ‘Holmes vs. Snipes’ official’s badge manufactured for the fight in 1981. There is a name written on the front, and the rear pinback is inoperable on the back (see picture). It is an original piece!
Larry Holmes vs. Renaldo Snipes -- billed as "Imminent Danger” – was held on November 6, 1981, at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena to a crowd of 14,103 boxing fans. Holmes, who was such a heavy favorite that there was no betting line on the fight -- was paid .1 million, while Snipes got 5,000. Early in the seventh round, Snipes dropped Holmes with a right. Holmes got up quickly and fell face first into a neutral-corner turnbuckle. Forty-five seconds into the eleventh round, a Holmes right sent Snipes reeling sideways into his corner. Holmes moved to him quickly. Two rights and a hook to the body pinned Snipes to the corner. Holmes hammered three powerful rights to the head. As he was loading up to throw a fourth, Ortega stopped the onslaught. Then, while Holmes and Snipes were being interviewed by Howard Cosell after the fight, Holmes' brother Jake got into a fight with Snipes' manager, who thought the fight was stopped prematurely. Snipes then went after Holmes, and Cosell ducked for cover. During the melee, which was joined by a host of security guards, Snipes was pushed back against the Rev. Jim Williams, his trainer, who wielded a pair of scissors he intended to use to snip the tape from Snipes' hands. Instead, the scissors accidentally opened a deep cut in Snipes' left forearm that required 40 stitches. The fight was televised live in prime time on ABC-TV.
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