Trainer Avoids Hearing

Vinny Vecchione will get the $179,820 due him from Peter McNeeley’s 89-second fight with Mike Tyson, despite what a state boxing official called his “strange and unexpected” action to stop the fight.

Nevada boxing commissioners agreed to release Vecchione’s cut of McNeeley’s purse, saying they could find no evidence the trainer did anything illegal in jumping into the ring to stop the fight.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission, in releasing the money, decided against holding a formal hearing on Vecchione’s action in stopping the fight with McNeeley still on his feet and seemingly able to go on.

“There has not been one shred of any reliable or verifiable evidence at this time to substantiate any of the rumors,” said Dr. James Nave, the commission’s chairman.”The people who checked it out could give us no proof otherwise. We had to follow advice of our attorneys.”