Logan Ingalls

From The Great Outdoor Fight

1922 Champion. Famous for trying to make a comeback in the mid-fifties, only to accept one of Chris Matta's bribes in 1958, tarnishing his reputation moving forward.

In 1961, Ingalls returned to the Fight, ostensibly to observe, despite the hostility of all in attendance. He sought out preacher and 1959 champion Jeremiah Merryman -- the man who had taken down and killed the two other men bribed to take initial falls in the 1958 Fight the following year. Contrite (or at least claiming to be), he asked Merryman to forgive him publicly, hoping to reenter Fight society and remove some of the tarnish from his name. Merryman, in response, beat the old man with his cane until he was on all fours, saying ""Forgiveness comes from God, not Man, And God listens better when you're on your knees."

Ingalls left the grounds of the Fight and checked into a local motel. The next morning, he was found dead in bed with eighty pages of a Gideon Bible shoved down his throat. The death was ruled a suicide, as most deaths involving those men who took Matta's bribes were.