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THE DECLINE OF MULLINS

Mullins sought solace in whiskey. Once a highly respected aspirant for the lightweight crown, he now found himself associating with the dregs of Skid Row.

He would work himself into an alcoholic frenzy in which he would trumpet scurrilous attacks on the champ, the old manager, and the judge. One avid fight fan attributed Mullins’ absence from the ring to sickness, saying that he was “recovering from a bad case of-SCOTCH.”