On This Day: Margarito scored tainted win over Cotto

[MrMORENO]

Margarito vs alvarez

Theres no evidence that margarito used loaded wraps against cotto & in the 2nd fight if nysac would've let the fight proceed 1 more round then i guarantee cotto wouldve been knocked out

[- Ram Raid -]

Perhaps because Mosley was already a known admitted PED user.

He wasn't a power hitter though. He was an accumulation puncher. But lets be real. As much as he battered Cotto in the first fight, he went through hell to grab that w. Alot was taken out of Margarito in that fight. Cotto brought everything in that fight and I believe that those two guys who took a piece of eachother that night, had they faced floyd that night instead of eachother, would have beat Floyd. Cotto was fast, sharp and precise. Tony fought the best fight of his life.

So your suggestion is that Margarito made a decision for the first time in his career to load his wraps against Mosley because the Cotto fight had diminished him to a point that he didn't feel he could win fairly and he was concerned that Mosley was back on the EPO?

[hayZ]

Perhaps because Mosley was already a known admitted PED user.

Yeah like 5 years ago before this fight.

[-Hyperion-]

So your suggestion is that Margarito made a decision for the first time in his career to load his wraps against Mosley because the Cotto fight had diminished him to a point that he didn't feel he could win fairly and he was concerned that Mosley was back on the EPO?

Have you even read the transcripts of the trial? the so called plaster was old gauze with trace amounts of calcium and sulfur(quan****** never specified) which could have been hand lotion....there's a reason Margarito got a slap in the wrist and comissions willing to sanction his fights after.

People felt them and said they weren't hard...the only one who said they were hard as bricks was Richardson....who was in the right protecting his fighter but is known to spew some hyperbole... I think margo was just cheating a way to get better grip and punch a bit more comfortable/harder, but plaster? lol...

[AllEyesOpen]

Tainted how?
Where was the evidence he used anything against Cotto?
The rematch with Cotto the only difference was Margarito then had a bad eye and Cotto managed to luck out and inflict the damage on that without it there is a good chance Cotto would have got beat up once again.
"Styles make fights"

Agreed. Marg got caught attempting to cheat against Mosley not Cotto. And if Margarito had not had his eye destroyed by Pac the Cotto rematch would have looked even more like the first fight.

[- Ram Raid -]

Have you even read the transcripts of the trial? the so called plaster was old gauze with trace amounts of calcium and sulfur(quan****** never specified) which could have been hand lotion....there's a reason Margarito got a slap in the wrist and comissions willing to sanction his fights after.

People felt them and said they weren't hard...the only one who said they were hard as bricks was Richardson....who was in the right protecting his fighter but is known to spew some hyperbole... I think margo was just cheating a way to get better grip and punch a bit more comfortable/harder, but plaster? lol...

I think you may have prematurely shot your wad there with your indignation and laughing out loud.

Let me turn that question around for you: Have you even read my posts? . . . . plaster? lol

So Margarito gets a one year ban from the California State Athletic Commission for his wraps containing a plaster of Paris type substance that would harden as his hands sweated during the fight.

But your assertion is that Ol' Antonio was merely using a touch of Palmolive to give his hands a delightfully comfortable softness and so that he could get a grip?

[TheCell8]

On this day Miguel became know as Kneeguel.

[PrBoxing88]

Talking to mexicans is like talk to a wall of bricks lmao.

[PrBoxing88]

Theres no evidence that margarito used loaded wraps against cotto & in the 2nd fight if nysac would've let the fight proceed 1 more round then i guarantee cotto wouldve been knocked out

you dont know **** about boxing, how on earth was margo knocking out Cotto??? he never was hurt in that fight at all, if anything Cotto would of **** that margarito eye up even more than pac did.

[FrankieClutch]

Cotto is just BETTER than Margarito. Way more skilled, Margarito was a bad stylistic matchup for him but the supremely skilled can overcome that. Cotto in the rematch fought him almost perfectly. Box and moving, pivoting and not allowing him to plant his feet and throw away. Look at Pac v Marg, Pac was darting in and out, throwing his flurries and getting out of there not allowing Marg to set his feet. The few times he allowed Marg to plant his feet, Marg was pretty effective in landing good shots to the body. It's not like Cotto fought Marg the same as he did in the first fight. He was far more willing to engage in a slugfest in the first fight, second fight he was on his bike a lot more and picking his moments better. If Cotto fought the same way and won the second time that's a different story, let's not pretend like Cotto didn't make adjustments and that it was purely Margs eye that was the difference.

Tough to watch that fight back to be honest. The best Cotto we EVER saw was in Round 1 of this fight, PRIME Cotto. We never saw that Cotto again. Neither man was the same after this fight. Margarito got 'busted' in the Mosley fight and got torn up. Cotto barely beat Clottey.

The bolded, exactly.

There is nothing tainted unless someone proves Marg had something in his wraps during the fight.

And this exactly.