News – Margarito Hoping to Return In September Against Mosley, Cotto or Pacquiao
June 7th, 2009
By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs) is hoping that his ban from boxing be lifted in September by the California State Athletic Commission. Margarito, 31, hasn’t fought since losing his WBA welterweight title to Shane Mosley in January 2009. Before the fight, a substance was discovered by Mosley’s trainer on Margarito’s hand wraps.
Apparently, Margarito has been staying in shape all this time and is looking forward to trying to avenge his defeat at the hands of Mosley. However, the chances of getting both the ban lifted and a fight with Mosley might be slim at this point, because even if Margarito’s ban is lifted by the California State Athletic Commission, Mosley is looking to get a fight with Manny Pacquiao and might not be interested in going over old ground with a fight against Margarito.
Margarito never did seem to get in the fight against Mosley, because he was too slow to match up against Mosley’s fast hands and slashing attacks. Mosley clinched as soon as he would get his shots off, thus preventing Margarito from countering him with his big shots.
It’s unknown why Margarito would want to fight a rematch with Cotto other than to get a good payday, because he already stopped Cotto in the 11th round last year in July. It would seem that Cotto should be the one that is looking to get revenge for his brutal beat down by Margarito.
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Margarito’s hands are nothing without plaster.
How many of you remember whe Margarito fought Sebastian Lujan, the Argentine boxer. Margarito literally “detached” Lujan’s ear. It is almost impossible to accomplish this (ear detachment) unless the boxer’s hand are “loaded” with heavy substance. For those who defend Margarito, please watch that video (Lujan-Margarito) and arrive at your own conclusion.
and don’t forget the best of the best Marquez a real Mexican fighter..and ppl I am not Mexican ok. I just see who is a real boxer and these cry babies of black fighters are losers..
shut the hell off all of you! Mosley, a dam steroid user, Mayweather a damn cheater and runner.. the only decent ones Pac and Cotto…Give Margaro a chance to proof himself ok.
Oh by the way i do mean this september 2009!!!!not 2010 if any of you thought i meant 2010…
MMaannnn I kno he Cheated! why? Because I supplied him wit da illegal wrappings!I aint playin I even supplied him a illegal Viagra only cuz da normal one doesn’t help him
But no seriously now everybody know him for his iron chin correct? Well since dis incident occur don’t that mothersukas think he injected some type of illegal substance in his chin? Think about he never got knockout before and I wonder why? So please comment bak on wat i’m sayin bytches!!!
I meant I dont hate him* sorry bout’ that! : )
@Margarito Fan #1, Okay you’re saying Cotto didn’t start bleeding till the 7 round? Just to let you know the substance Margarcheetos was using gets hard after a couple rounds! At 1st is wet then after a while it get’s harder! Don’t this ring a bell pinche way? Anyway I did had alot of respect for Margarcheetos before this incident but now I’m not going to say I hate him but I sure do hate what he did! I think Cotto deserves a rematch fair and square! But truthly I think he should just go to Mexico because he’s Fan based really went down hill in the USA! So I had to say what I felt and good luck Cotto may your furture erase your past! Much <3 4 ur Lion Heart
MOSLEY HAS CHEATED WITH STEROIDS IT ISNT NEW ALL BOXERS CHEAT
HEY PEOPLE DONT JUDGE MARGARITO!!! THERE HASENT BEEN ANYTHING PROVEN THAT MARGARITO HAS CHEATED UNTIL THE DAY OF TODAY AND ITS BEEN A WHILE ALREADY SINCE THE RUMOR STARTED THE PEOPLE INVESTIGATING THIS ISSUE HAVENT FIND ANYTHING ILEGAL IN MARGARITOS HAND WRAPPING,,, I BELIEVE THAT THERE LYING JUST TO MAKE A CONTROVERSY HAPPEN AGAINT MARGARITO BECAUSE IF IT WAS TRUE THAT HE CHEATED THERE WOULD BE PROVE AND THERE ISNT ANY
Margaracheetah Fan, first no one knows for sure if he had loaded gloves. The key is that the experts belive that the damage done was similar to what Billy Collins Jr had done to him 26 yrs ago against Luis Resto. The type of damage is not consistent with regular gloves.
Cotto did not stand and trade, he boxed and ran all night. Occasionally, he would stop and throw a few shots moving back. He never sat down on his punches. He also never launched his vaunted body attack. As a result Antonio walked thru his shots. Come on Antonio is a very big and strong guy. he took many of Mosley’s power shots before finally going down.
Cotto like delahoya always seem to have stamina problems; the back pedalling finally took its toll & since he had not worn out Antonio’s body guess who natural strength prevailed? Compare that Mosley stood up, slipped punches and mixed head & body shots for dual effect. And due to his speed he was able to get off quick shots and with strength of his own, was able to tie him up before his long arms could unwind. This was a smart fight.
Cotto did not use his brain and face it, Antonio is a very, very good fighter. I hope he repents for his mistakes but that was dangerous. Anyhow Cotto can take a single hard shot but not a flurry. Antonio never landed a flurry. It was 1, 1, 1 but heavy shots and eventually they wore Cotto down.
Go back and watch the fight again my friend. It was one of the best fights of the year for me and I finally was about to be a true Antonio fan. He lsot me against Williams by waiting & then waiting some more.
But this was redemption or was it? And you forgot that Cott has national pride. Mexicans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, most S. AMericans and to a lesser extent Brits, seem to carry the whole country’s rep on their backs and fight like they are possessed. That was what made Cotto last 11 rds.
EFFF All you guys who say he cheated.If he really did cheat dont you think he would off KO’D Cotto?And im talking KO!!Cotto wasnt KO’D he went down on his own.Also Cotto didnt start bleeding untill the 7th round.Another thing the way Margarito took those Cotto powershots and totally walk through them wasnt cheating.And Im positive that if Margarito had loaded wraps in the Cotto fight Margarito wouldve FINISHED Cotto WAY SOONER than 11 rounds!!!!
No effing way should he get a chance to fight a top contender to get a decent pay day unless it is Williams cuz Williams will whup his ass again. Plus Willimas don’t draw flies. Even then he only gets 20% of the revenue just in case people are curious and buy the fight.
The only other person he should be allowed to fight is Cotto who should be allowed to put lead in his gloves. OK I am just teasing but if Cotto wants to he should be allowed to fight him to clear that psychological blemish. Billy Collins Jr never had that chance about 30 years ago.
After he was beaten to a pulp for 10 rds by Luis Resto after the fight his dad (Sr), reached to shake Resto’s hand. he felt no padding and demanded that the gloves be investigated. The NY State Boxing Commission found that Panama Lewis his trainer, had removed an ounce or two of the padding. I think they were fined and or jailed.
Sadly, Billy died months later in a car accident while drunk. He never accepted the injustice.
But the point is we want to see fair fights and fair judgement. See what can happen when crap is allowed? Fortunately, Cotto seems ok but we have no idea about his psyche. It is bad enough to lose for the 1st time. It is worse take a bad beating too. It is criminal to have it done by a cheater. What price has Margarcheetah paid? He must be severely punished to send a message!
Regarding Mosley, this is still a society where you are innocent until proven guilty. Remember the old Hogan’s Heroes war comedy? Colonel Klink always said you vill haff a fair trial… and zen you vill be shot!
We are not blood thirsty. Mosley deserves a trial and it seems like the judge is siding with him. If he is guilty he will be punished but as Scott D says, he was hurting himself not others. If I am correct a boxer knows if there is something is in his gloves or not.
Many atheletes trust their doctors but they too should realize if their body seems different and I believe Mosley did and moved on but if he is guilty. He gets punished!
I love boxing and get angry whenever it gets a black eye. I also get angry to see the grand old daddy of manly warfare get tossed aside like a ragdoll. Boxing is reslient and always bounces back. People who never follow boxing always jump on the bandwagon if someone gets injured or if there is a scandal.
It’s like hockey or soccer in North America. No one pays attention until there is a fight or a kicking incident like Zinedane against Italy a few years back. Soccer does not get the respect it deserves and neither does boxing. They require lots of skill and dedication. Boxing however takes guts and a serious game plan, plus skill to get into a ring. Let it be a fair fight!!!!
Nazim Richardson doesn’t play around man. It’s a good thing because Margo-cheato’s wraps had already been signed off by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. If Nazim Richardson didn’t say anything, he would have used the illegal wraps on Shane and who knows what could have happened. Nobody would probably still know that Margo-cheato has been cheating and thus, someone else could have been seriously hurt, and people would continue to think that he’s amazing boxer. I gave him so much credit for his fight with Cotto only to find out that he’s a fraud.
Thank you for the information I just remembered that they also had some type of scandal and that it was the same trainer.
Actually for Tito it was a little bit different. There wasn’t any foreign substance found in his hand, Nazim Richardson just didn’t like the way it was wrapped and had them rewrap it. The purpose of the wrap is really to protect the boxer’s hand, and Nazim thought that there was too much wrap on Tito’s hand. I think he had them rewrap Tito’s hand 2-3 times before it was to his satisfaction, but there wasn’t a foreign substance wrapped in them like Margo-cheato’s. Obviously, not nearly as bad as Margo-cheato, or else Tito would have had to face punishment.
Trinidad was forced to re-wrap his hands because nazim richardson found something he did not like on the wraps. It’s been a while but I think they said it was something similar to margarito’s crap.
didn’t trinidad had the same for the hopkins fight?
Cheating on any level is bad but I have to agree with Margarito being TOTALLY out of order. Essentially he is taking a physical weapon in to the ring to beat his opponent with. The fact that he was hiding it under his gloves makes no difference.
He may have well taken a bat into the ring. I think Cotto’s loss should be discounted as Margarito may have well had the same substance but got away with it.
Margarito is a disgrace..
M
Major difference between Mosley and the steroids and Margarito and the plaster, Mosley was only damaging himself.
Having steroids in his system is massively different from a hard substance in your gloves. He wasn’t punching with his blood stream so to speak!!!!
Does anyone recall the scandal with Mosely and steroids???? I still see him fighting. All of them must be treated equally. Mosely’s excuse was just that as Margarito’s. The trainers were responsible. If it worked for Mosely…..why not Margarito?
If his ban is lifted, Cotto may well be his only option.
Mosley isn’t going to fight a guy he annialated earlier in the year, and also has Pacquiao to contend with.
Pacquiao is out for above mentioned reason.
Mayweather jr won’t fight him because as much as he is a cheat, he is also to dangerous for PBF to go up against.
If it was to happen, id expect Cotto and his team to demand at least a 60% cut, and why not, Margarito is the one with the “black cloud” hanging over him, so in turn should be grateful to be getting a shot at anybody at all.
Personally, I hope the ban sticks, what Margarito and his trainer did, whether he was aware or not, was down right dangerous and could have resulted in death. That being the extreme, but plaster on the wraps gives a power punch that little bit more oomph doesn’t it. I say hold up the ban and properly punish him.
I totally agree with both comments!
And i highly doubt that Margarito was UNAWARE of what his trainer was doing to his gloves before his fights!
As mentioned by nepster above, the only boxer who would even consider fighting Margarito would be Cotto, simply to seek revenge on the cheating fighter, however, Cotto is probably smart enough to know that fighting him again would bring Margarito in lot of cash, and i’m sure he doesn’t want that.
Mosley, has already been there and done that and was simply far to quick for Margarito, i’m pretty sure the same would happen if a second fight between them was to occur.
Moving on to Pacman taking the fight…..mmmmmm, the que of fighters already building up to fight this guy is already a long one and Margacheato would be right at the end.
Finally, we have Floyd Mayweather, who potentially would probably be the best option. They’ve never fought before, Margarito would get a big payday, and Mayweather would more than likely win with a points decision, simply being to quick for him.
But hold on a minute, Margarito has a year ban so i think we can lay all this to rest for the time being.
I personally would not like to see Margarito fight again after commiting such an offence, what he did simply puts doubts over all his previous wins.
Margarito should never fight again, because what he did was something terrible.
Margarito cabron de mierda.
What margarito and his corner did was really evil and he should never fight again.
Doesn’t Margo-cheato have a ONE YEAR ban from boxing, which mean’s he wont’ be able to fight again until March 2010? Even if he is reinstated into boxing, I highly doubt that any big name boxer such as Cotto, Mosley, Mayweather, Pacquiao would even give him a shot as there will always be a black cloud over his head. Cotto may want to have a rematch with him to avenge his only defeat and show the world that he only lost because Margo was packing plaster like substance in his gloves, but I think Margo-cheato being discovered and banned is vindication enough for him. And I highly doubt that Cotto would want to give Margo-cheato the opportunity to earn a decent payday against him.