Margarito’s career in jeopardy due to eye injuries sustained in Pacquiao bout

Image: Margarito's career in jeopardy due to eye injuries sustained in Pacquiao boutBy Eric Thomas: Antonio Margarito’s loss to Manny Pacquiao last November might prove a costly one for the 33-year-old Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s), as not only did Margarito suffer a broken right orbital bone from that fight, which was bad enough to require surgery, but Margarito also suffered a detached retina in his right eye. That injury, along with the broken orbital bone, threaten Margarito’s career.

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Roach was clueless about Pacquiao being hurt by Margarito in the 6th

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach didn’t have a clue that his fighter Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) was badly hurt by Antonio Margarito in the 6th round of their fight in November 2010. Margarito, not a big puncher, nailed Pacquiao with two hard left hooks to the body that had Pacquiao clearly hurt and about to drop to the canvas in agony. How Roach could have not seen this is strange given that it was seen by pretty everyone and Roach was right there at the ring apron and should have spotted it.

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Froch & Pacquiao: Give these fighters the credit and respect they deserve

Image: Froch & Pacquiao: Give these fighters the credit and respect they deserveBy Alex Sharp: (Photo Tom Casino / Showtime:) Now we are nearly through this busy period of boxing we can sit back and reflect on the last few weeks of boxing. There have been many of predictions about what is going to happen who is going to win, who is going to get knocked out, who is going to get shown up, and to be honest I am sick of hearing people talk utter rubbish about fighters that deserve to be shown more respect than they are.

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Antonio Margarito – Redemption of the heart

Image: Antonio Margarito - Redemption of the heartBy By Ibrar Arshad: After a long time I have decided to write an article again. The reason for my absence is the amount of ignorance I was beginning to see in boxing fans on this website, as well as the poor articles that other authors were posting. Sometimes it’s disheartening to see fans of a sport that I so dearly love, overlook values that every boxer has ever laid out in their careers. Unfortunately a lot of boxing fans have become disrespectful to the sport they claim to love. I have read remarks that are hateful, racist and completely unreasonable. It really has become sad.

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Jeff Mayweather says he puts asterisks next to Pacquiao’s recent wins

Image: Jeff Mayweather says he puts asterisks next to Pacquiao's recent winsBy Dave Lahr: Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., is skeptical and less than impressed with Manny Pacquiao’s recent wins as he’s moved up in weight against fighters like Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. In an article at fighthype.com, Jeff makes it clear that he thinks it’s strange that Pacquiao is beating these bigger guys given that he felt he lost both of his fights with Juan Manuel Marquez in the past.

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Pacquiao vs. Margarito – Why didn’t anybody stop the fight

Image: Pacquiao vs. Margarito - Why didn’t anybody stop the fightBy Gerardo Granados: Antonio Margarito´s trainer Roberto Garcia allowed his fighter to take a vicious beating last Saturday night against Manny Pacquiao. Perhaps he thought Margarito could win in the final seconds of the fight. But what about the referee or the ringside doctor? It was clear that the underdog didn’t have the skills, speed or power to win, and as we all saw Margarito was taking too much punishment.

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Roach doesn’t think Margarito will ever be the same again after the beating he took against Pacquiao

Image: Roach doesn't think Margarito will ever be the same again after the beating he took against PacquiaoBy Dan Ambrose: Freddie Roach believes that Antonio Margarito’s corner should have pulled the plug in his loss to Manny Pacquiao in the 9th round to save him from needless punishment. Roach sees it as a situation where Margarito’s inexperienced corner left him in too long to take punishment when he had no chance to win. However, Margarito was still landing punches and Pacquiao’s shots weren’t hard enough to hurt him and put him down. With the kind of money and fame that Margarito would have won had he defeated Pacquiao, you can’t blame him for wanting to continue fighting.

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Ariza thinks Pacquiao would have destroyed Mayweather last Saturday

Image: Ariza thinks Pacquiao would have destroyed Mayweather last SaturdayBy Dave Lahr: Alex Ariza, Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach, believes that Pacquiao would have destroyed Floyd Mayweather Jr. if it had been him in the ring with him instead of Antonio Margarito. Using a catch-weight of 150 pounds, Pacquiao defeated Margarito by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision at the Cowboys Stadium to capture the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title. Pacquiao has received a lot of criticism for both fighting at a catch-weight for a title and because his opponent Margarito had only fought once at junior middleweight in the past six years.

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Manny’s power, speed, and skills are possibly the main stumbling block to Mayweather vs. Pacquiao megafight!

Image: Manny’s power, speed, and skills are possibly the main stumbling block to Mayweather vs. Pacquiao megafight!By Juan dela Cruz: It was not the random blood test, nor the purse split nor the legal problems the Mayweathers are facing, that made the negotiations for a mega fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao failed. In my view, there is only one clear reason, and that was again showed by Pacman in last outing against Antonio “The Tijuana Tornado” Margarito for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title last Saturday, November 13, 2010 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and it was Pac’s power, speed and skills!

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