Comments Thread For: So, Antonio Margarito Fans… Was It Worth It?

BIGPOPPAPUMP

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - So, to all those insistent Antonio Margarito fans out there… how y’all feeling today?

Headaches gone away? Vision still a little blurry? Able to eat any solid food yet?

I’ll type slowly, in case you’re still a little woozy from Saturday night.

And if you get the sense that I’m feeling no sympathy, you’re right.

Bet you’re looking back between the Tylenols to the glory days when your man was blowing out the grimy underbelly of the welterweight division, prompting the breathless to sing his praises as the pedestrian WBO title defenses – Lujan, Cintron, Gomez, Clottey – piled up like cord wood.

I remember it reached a noisy crescendo the night he bludgeoned Miguel Cotto into surrender in 2008, and I can still recall sitting in my in-laws’ house in Tennessee – listening to the broadcast crew infer that somehow this was the guy striking fear into the heart of a then-sabbaticaled Floyd Mayweather Jr.

We all know I’m a Floyd guy. And I make no apologies for it.

But even the objective journalist type in me that night was thinking: “This dude? Really?”

I’ll bet it feels like about a thousand years ago now, huh?

A subsequent match with Shane Mosley looked like a win-win cakewalk six months after Cotto, designed to give gruff but lovable “Tony” a chance to ****e the resume with a big name whose last significant win in the division was by then already more than eight years past tense.

But a funny thing [Click Here To Read More]

SdBoxingFan83

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Originally Posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - So, to all those insistent Antonio Margarito fans out there… how y’all feeling today?

Headaches gone away? Vision still a little blurry? Able to eat any solid food yet?

I’ll type slowly, in case you’re still a little woozy from Saturday night.

And if you get the sense that I’m feeling no sympathy, you’re right.

Bet you’re looking back between the Tylenols to the glory days when your man was blowing out the grimy underbelly of the welterweight division, prompting the breathless to sing his praises as the pedestrian WBO title defenses – Lujan, Cintron, Gomez, Clottey – piled up like cord wood.

I remember it reached a noisy crescendo the night he bludgeoned Miguel Cotto into surrender in 2008, and I can still recall sitting in my in-laws’ house in Tennessee – listening to the broadcast crew infer that somehow this was the guy striking fear into the heart of a then-sabbaticaled Floyd Mayweather Jr.

We all know I’m a Floyd guy. And I make no apologies for it.

But even the objective journalist type in me that night was thinking: “This dude? Really?”

I’ll bet it feels like about a thousand years ago now, huh?

A subsequent match with Shane Mosley looked like a win-win cakewalk six months after Cotto, designed to give gruff but lovable “Tony” a chance to ****e the resume with a big name whose last significant win in the division was by then already more than eight years past tense.

But a funny thing [Click Here To Read More]

Feeling Pretty Good , Im glad Tony didn't get Ko or Took a Knee or Corner threw in the Towel for Sure. Margarito A warrior with a Big Heart .

Check_hooks

Hes a self proclaimed floyd guy. That means he loves to play the race card. They all do.

onechance87

This is the first time ive seen an article taking shots at a fighters fans.
Seems a bit weird.

Perez37

Beautifully written!Great article!!!lol...

Nuurzhaelan

Just stop, Sdboxing. The writer is calling out margarito for his loaded gloves.

Russian Crushin

Damn, ripping Marg fans left and right

BG_Knocc_Out

Articles like this need to stay off boxing scene. At least in the writers section. Bias and opinions is what the forum is for. This is extremely unprofessional. Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less from Fitzimmons.

Russian Crushin

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Originally Posted by SdBoxingFan83

Feeling really butthurt , Im glad Tony didn't get Ko or Took a Knee or Corner threw in the Towel for Sure. Margarito A warrior with a Big Heart and i still love him because we are from the same country

Fixed it for you

Nuurzhaelan

Sdboxing, you were pretty quick on the retraction of your post there. I'll save it for posterity.

Check_hooks Undisputed Champion Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Where Champions Are Made Posts: 7,544 Rep Power: 26 Points: 102,834,536,885.15 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 102,834,536,885.15 Donate	Hes a self proclaimed floyd guy. That means he loves to play the race card. They all do.

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Nuurzhaelan Anathema Join Date: May 2009 Location: Perdition Posts: 3,381 Rep Power: 12 Points: 25,017,995.14 Bank: 358,412,750.43 Total Points: 383,430,745.57 Donate	Just stop, Sdboxing. The writer is calling out margarito for his loaded gloves.

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BG_Knocc_Out Undisputed Champion Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Minneap Age: 20 Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 10 Points: 1,584,022.81 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 1,584,022.81 Donate	Articles like this need to stay off boxing scene. At least in the writers section. Bias and opinions is what the forum is for. This is extremely unprofessional. Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less from Fitzimmons.