By Mark Vester

Former three time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has been talking it up during the recent media events for the Latin Fury 8 pay-per-view in Tijuana, Mexico. Margarito is not making any comments on the recent lab results that confirmed "plaster elements" were present in the confiscated "hard gauze blocks" there were found in his hand wraps prior to the January 24 loss to Shane Mosley. 

Margarito is still pushing a ring return for the month of July in Tijuana, Mexico. He still says his lawyers are trying to overturn that one-year ban that was handed down by the California State Athletic Commission on February 10. And he still says that was completely unaware of what his former trainer, Javier Capetillo, placed on his hands for the night he fought Mosley.  

Margarito claims that he struggled with his weight for the fight with Mosley and it cost him the win. He felt very weak and couldn't perform once he stepped in the ring.

"The plan is to make a fight [in Mexico], and then I have a rematch with Miguel Angel Cotto. Then I want to face Shane Mosley, and demonstrate that it was just a bad night when Mosley beat me in Los Angeles," Margarito told ESTO .

"If I was strong and in good shape, I would have beat Mosley. It's not an excuse. I could not control my weight properly. That's why I am going to hire a good nutritionist."

With the recent lab results becoming public, it's hard to say if even Tijuana will actually allow a fight with Margarito to take place before his license is restored in America. Most insiders believe that if Margarito takes a fight in Mexico while the CSAC ban is still in place, he will never get his license restored in the United States. Hardcore Margarito backers are already walking away and several Mexican fighters who were backing him after he lost his license, like Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez, refused to comment when contacted by reporters in Mexico.

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