I’m looking forward to seeing Antonio Margarito back in the ring
January 30th, 2010
By Esteban Garduno: I can’t wait to see former IBF welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27 KO’s) back in the ring ripping up his competition with his trademark high volume offense. Margarito is a warrior and has been missed by many during this past year since he lost his boxing license after the Shane Mosley fight. Margarito, 31, will be fighting on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight on March 13th, provided Margarito is given his boxing license by the Texas Athletic Commission.
Margarito lost that fight by a 9th round stoppage, but I think the last had more to do with the trouble that Margarito had in making weight for the fight against Mosley. Also, the stuff that took place before the fight with the hand wraps being discovered to have an illegal foreign substance wouldn’t have helped matters any. That kind of thing would throw off any fighter. Besides that, the referee let Mosley get away with a ton of clinching without warning him or taking off points.
I think Margarito is going to re-establish himself as one of the top fighters in the welterweight division in 2010, first with a win over Jones and then a big money fight against Manny Pacquiao. I think Margarito can beat Pacquiao. Margarito’s promoter, Bob Arum, needs to work on putting together Margarito-Cotto II.
That fight will do really well with the boxing public, and I think Cotto needs to try and step back up to the plate to see if he can do better than last when he was stopped in the 11th round by Margarito. I doubt the outcome would be any different next time around, but it would be great to see Cotto try to avenge the defeat.
At the same time, it will give Margarito a chance to prove that he beat Cotto fair and square without anything in his hand wraps. People have been hinting that Margarito may have had loaded hand wraps for his win against Cotto in July 2008, and I think that is nonsense. But people will talk anyway until Margarito is given a chance to prove himself again against Cotto.
Margarito needs to be given a second chance. If people who have been caught using steroids are given a second chance, then a person who unknowingly had a plaster-like substance in his hand wraps deserves a second change. Both of them are just as dangerous in my view. You can’t be letting people back in boxing after being caught using steroids and then keeping people with loaded gloves out. That doesn’t make sense to me and I don’t think it’s fair. Let the warrior back in and prove himself that he beat those fighters fair square.
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i’m sorry but margarito is an insult to boxing. if i were the judge who held the decision to reinstate his license back, he’d be standing in line waiting for ever!!! I dont condone cheaters !!!! up yours margacheato !! lol
Okay… For all you idiots who never have even stepped foot between the ropes. He tried to use old knuckle pads wich hardened from punching not “plastered” although they were harder than fresh gauze. It was a dumb mistake which probably had to do with bad fight prep…
So who cares if he fights Cotto latley its become apparent that he has a glass chin… So for those who talk without getting your facts straight get your fat ass off the computer chair and hit the gym…
its a shame he cheated but i would like to see him in the ring again as he is a good fighter. i think he would have beat cotto even if he didnt have loaded gloves. like it was aid in the article if you get let back for taking roids then he should be let back.
He can deny as much as he want’s no way a boxer wont know how his hands are being wrapped.
like Margacheato this writer should be banned. How can you be a fan of the sport and support a guy who cheats and at the expense of his opponents health.
This writer is an absolute disgrace, cannot believe my eyes. Any boxer can tell you if there is something wrong with his wraps, he definately knew. The writer also basically says its ok to cheat as long as they all do. Its a dangerous sport already and illegal wraps could nearly be classed as attempted murder. Margarito and this writer should be banned for life
margarito needs to fight cotto again.and this time legal.
Margarito punches like a sissy, thats why he needed loaded gloves in the first place. If Cotto would’ve been punched with his natural sissy hands Cotto would not have faded that way and would’ve punished Margacheato even more. Margarito eres un Marica y Cabron buey. Eres una verguenza para el pueblo mexicano.
Margarito started loading his wraps around the time he started out his knockout streaks.the man threw terrible punches and a year or two later he’s a knockout artist?shut up manuel perez and stop writing already.
Some people are looking real sloppy putting margarito in the same sentence with TRINIDAD.Let me just show PERNELL,OSCAR,REID,VARGAS,WINKI,HOPKINS.JONES big fights even vargas fight that had to be one of the most bruttle he didn’t get cut or swell up realy bad.In Hopkins fight it was just one last trick to get TITO off you see that 911 was 2 week before the fight and TITO was tire from all that was going on around HOPKINS stood in PHILLY and kept traning.MARGARITO who’s he PAUL won,CLOTTEY,MOSLEY and then theres COTTO looking like he was in a bare knuckle fight.Let me finish by saying that if there was any good young MEXICAN fighters out there right know this would not even be and issue MARGARITO would be BAND FOR LIFE.But the sport needs a MEXICAN fighter and have none SO HERE WE GO!!!!!OH YEAH by the way lets make and argument by conparing MOJONSITO with TRINIDAD see how far that will get you…..
margarita shouldn’t be allowed to fight again. Why do you think “brass knuckles” are so dangerous opposed to bare fists, and they’re banned in like 48 states? Any augmentation on your fists are potentially dangerous and could kill someone.
Wait a minute for all those who are jumping on Margarito for being banned for life and what not where were you all when the same Nasim Richardson that caught the plaster in Margarito gloves caught them in Trinidads gloves prior to his fight with Hopkins? Ahh how soon we forget. Illegal hand wraps or not I believe the punishment Cotto & Margarito inflicted on each other has taken the best out of both of them.
All the eyes in boxing will be on him. I’d like to see him back in business, a warrior that he is. Get rid of old associate and start new he’s to good of a boxer to be labeled a cheater. Redeem your self and prove them that you are one good warrior. This is your chance to clear up your name. More power to you.
margarito should be banned for life,he could have killed Cotto.
let him fight and will see who is the cheater!!! even if he cheated he is is better than 99% of the other fighters that are out there. Straight out “MATADOR”
Margacheater is disgrace for boxing.
Margarito hijo de puta, tramposo maldito.
if it was up to me margarito would have been in prison up to 10 years for assualt, attempted murder, sued for millions, conspiracy to fix a legalized fight for him n all involved, his liecence taken permanently and all his 37 wins set to all no contest having zero wins since we can’t pin point when he started loading his gloves….margarito is a disgrace to this sport n im glad mosley raped him in his last bout
Margo will never get a chance at cotto again. Cotto himself said Margarito will never make a cent off my name ever again. It is also impossible to have foreign substances in your gloves and not know about it. Bob Arum shows what a slimeball he is for backing and promoting this known cheat.
Marg is a total disgrace and should be banned for life.
Haters. Can’t wait to see Margo in action!
Are plaster wraps legal in Texas?
This is why Arum wanted the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in Texas.
California wasn’t going to give Margarito his licence to fight, and Nevada would have respected California’s decision and gone along with it.
But Texas (with many of it’s outright judging scandals and bad name in general) was more likely to license him to fight.
Top Rank anticipated this, and Bob Arum wasn’t about to let one of his most popular Mexican fighters (read $$$) no longer fight in the US.
Margarito could fight with a knife in one hand, a gun in the other, and using steroids and this author would still worship him.
Does anyone else find it humorous that the writer of this story really believes that Margarito “unknowingly” had loaded gloves.
Wow. To believe that Margarito didn’t know that a foreign substance was being put in his wraps, was believing Barry Bonds when he said he went BALCO lab for flexseed oil.
Margarito should be banned for life.
Sometimes justice takes care of itself. Margarito has already been KO’d by Mosley. I’m wondering how his jaw will hold up in future fights. I’m also wondering how much power he has without the illegal hand wraps.
I agree Margarito must be banned for life, his a disgrace to boxing I,d like to see him against me and my baseball bat!
“people being hinting” “fair and square” here it’s a hint you are kind of moron.
He should be banned for life. Charged with assault intent.
Never in a million years would i ever watch this fraudulent cheater box again and shame on anyone else who does.