Margarito Temporarily Suspended
January 29th, 2009
By Jim Dower: In a bit of bad news for Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs), the word is that his license to fight has been suspended by the California State Athletic Commission as of Wednesday due to a plaster-like substance was found on his hand wraps just prior to his fight with Shane Mosley on January 24th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Along with Margarito’s license, his trainer Javier Capetillo has also been temporarily suspended until the investigation has been completed.
Margarito stands to lose his chance at a rematch with Cotto, which possibly was to take place in June of this year. That would have been a good chance for Margarito bring back his good name somewhat and win back some boxing fans that might have been turned off by his loss to Mosley and the glove wrap issue. In addition to the Cotto fight, there were other fights out there for Margarito, even possibly a rematch with Mosley at some point in time.
This couldn’t come at a worse time for Margarito, because he had just recently made a name for himself with his 11th round TKO win over Miguel Cotto in July 26th 2008. Before that, Margarito had still been largely unknown by the larger public despite previously holding the WBO welterweight title two times and had wins over Kermit Cintron (twice), Antonio Diaz and Joshua Clottey.
In July 2007, Margarito lost his WBO title to Paul Williams in a 12-round decision loss. The fight was action packed from start to finish, but Margarito started off too slowly, giving away the first six rounds. He came on in the second half but came up just short. In April 2008, Margarito defeated Cintron by a 6th round TKO to capture the IBF welterweight title.
If Margarito is cleared of this, it could leave more than a few people red-faced, because many of them – fans, sportscasters and athletes – have made a tremendous deal out of this without knowing the facts. There seems to have been a huge rush to judgement based on speculation. In the end, Margarito may deserve a huge apology from a lot of people.
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mosley beat margarito just by holding atherwise mosley would of been knock out for fist time lets see a remath and remember what i said
Hector – Are you for real??? You really honestly think Margarito would beat Mayweather???? Even though Moseley just battered him!!!!! Nobody can beat Mayweather not margarito, not hatton, not pac man nobody!!! And the sooner people accept that the better!! I am English and I admit Mayweather is the best of the best and I couldnt give a toss that he is American. I hate bias people like you who think boxers are the best in the world just cos there from your country!! Hatton is English but I know that Mayweather is better!! Just accept it and get over it
If Margarito gets re-instated he could adopt the monkier ‘Hands of Plaster’ in a nod to Roberto Duran
If it is true, i hope he dosn´t get a penny from the mosley fight and i hope he gets suspended for a long time. He didn´t look as good, as the cotto or cintron fight with mosley. So probably is true.
I hope on the future, the boxing organizators take more controls on this.
If its true then cheating scum! As if boxing wasn’t dangerous enough without someone using plaster in their gloves. If he’s guilty he should be banned for life.
Cotto was landing more shots than him and yet getting beat down which supports the theory he did this in the Cotto fight too. Against Cotto his punches were like his hands were made of say plaster, but against Mosley he was decidedly feather-fisted.
Co-incidence?
i dont think they will either, although looking at the state of cotto’s face at the end of that fight also strengthens the theory.
If Mararito is guilty of this then id bet he is guilty of the the same in the Cotto fight.
But theres no way they would turn the Cotto decision unless they found some way of proving it and i dont know how.
Margo you let me down if this is true, i hope its not. Innocent until proven guilty but it doesnt look good. If he gets suspended and his record whipped i think cotto should have that loss whipped off his record for sure.
He didnt look the same though, he didnt look like he had the belief in this fight… so maybe it could be true.
I AGREE WITH ukansodoff
Wo damn looks like a wrote a whole article lol my badd!!!
well the only thing here is there are some people whom does’t like margarito and i would like to know why?he is a true warrior a real mex fighter,i know margarito don’t need to cheat,all of these seens to be just money,just think about it, if margarito is not in boxing anymore, than floyd is gonna be back, of course becouse the otherwise floyd should fight margarito.and margarito is the one who can shut the mouht to floyd
But he is…. both of them are cheaters…
Very dodgy, lets hope the investigation is swift, mind you, his career is always going to be tarnished with this accusation, if hes guilty, hes screwed, if hes innocent, the conspiracy theorists will screw him anyway!!!
I suppose with a packed out venue on a night of PPV, was it on ppv? If they can commence with the fight then i think they would.
And i have to admit id prefer it if he was proved to be innocent of anytihng but its lookin very dodgy right now.
If this plaster like substance was found on his wraps just prior to the fight as stated here, then why was Margarito allowed in the ring? Surely if a substance had been found then the boxing officials that were present would have disqualified him?
Ukansodoff has a point though, officials see wraps, cotton wool and tape all the time, its strange that Margaritos were unusual looking enough to warrant all the fuss.
but, i am with Owen, I hope it turns out to have been a mistake.
If this surfaces to be true not only will his reputation be tarnished because he cheated, but also because he lost despite it.
Mosley is a fantastic boxer and has been for 10 years but to beat a boxer in his prime with plaster cast hands should pretty much land him what ever fight he wants.
If Mayweather wants to come back I think Mosley would be a good fight. Lucrative and enough of a challenge to set up a massive fight with the winner of Hatton Pacquiao May 2nd bout.
I hope that all this turns out not to be true as Margarito is a fantastic fighter and a re-match with Cotto would be awesome. The welterweight division is on fire right now and this would, in my opinion put a big black mark on the entire division and lose a lot of fans.
I know some people on here are sayin innocent until proven guilty and some are sayin guilty full stop.
The way i see it the componants of what is needed to wrap a hand is hardly anything. and its all stuff weve seen a million times.
If there wasnt anything out of place out of the few things that need to be identified then what the hell did they take away?
Guilty as sin and im growing convinced he had it against Cotto but that will never be able to be proved.