chad wrote:
Just playing Devils Advocate here. How many times did Fr&nk allegedly promote Ricky Burns? How many pieces of documentation will Fr&nk allegedly hold with Rickys signature on i.e. contracts etc....? Frank will know exactly what Ricky's signature looks like. If Frank is as calculated as we assume, he's already compared them. What if Ricky did sign the letter? He could have signed it at a time his hand was injured, meaning his signature was a little off. Alternatively signing a boxing glove with a permanent marker is different from signing paper with a pen. Personally I don't think Ricky produced or signed such a venomous letter however how can anyone say at this time it's a "100% forgery"? There is only one person who knows for sure and that's Ricky Burns. He doesn't need this before the biggest fight of his career however this might turn out to be more compelling than anything he's done in the ring.
He was promoted by allegedly for most of his career, but Alex Morrison's managed him the entire time as well. I don't know of any hand injuries that Ricky's had and the letter doesn't state a year, but it was in July and obviously after he won the world title, so it was either 2011, 2012 or 2013. 2011 was the week of the Cook fight, 2012 was 2 months out from the Mitchell fight and 4 months after his last fight and 2013 was 2 months out from the Beltran fight, so there's little chance of a hand injury. The signatures can be different between the glove and paper, but the signature on the glove doesn't have a line drawn under it, whereas the one on the letter does and the y is thin, long and slanted on the glove, but on the letter it looks like an old school way of writing a y as part of a word. All the letters are similar to the y on the glove, long, thin and slanted, all to the right, but on the letter none look like that. When you look more closely at the signatures, they're night and day. The one on the letter looks very old school, all my grandparents write in similar ways to that, not the way a 30 year old man would sign his name. To the untrained eye, based on what I've seen of other peoples writing, the signature on the letter looks like it's been written by someone much older than Ricky Burns, possibly a woman, but a calligraphist would be able to tell far more from it than I ever will. And Ricky himself has said it's a forgery, that's good enough for me.
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