By Mark Vester

This coming Saturday, Antonio Margarito will be sitting ringside at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The former welterweight champion will be scouting the welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey. Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Margarito and the two main eventers on Saturday, has told BoxingScene.com in several interviews that he wants to make a Pacquiao-Margarito fight later in the year.

"I'm definitely here to help make that fight, I want that fight to happen. Everyone in Mexico wants to see me fight Pacquiao," Margarito told The Los Angeles Times.

Margarito will return on May 8 in Mexico against Carson Jones. He is still unable to fight in the United States. The California State Athletic Commision revoked his boxing license last February after an illegal substance was found in his handwraps before the fight with Shane Mosley on January 24. All of his past wins are now in question, including the career-defining win over Miguel Cotto. Margarito says he never used illegal wraps in any of his prior fights and wants to prove to the fans that he still has the power without them.

"I'm going to show in my next fight and from every fight from now on that I didn't do those things with my [hand] wraps that people said I did. No, no [the wraps were clean for the Cotto fight]. There was always someone from the [Nevada] commission watching the wraps," Margarito said.

Margarito told The Times he never cheated in the past and never planned to cheat against Mosley. He doesn't know what happened with the wraps but he did says a lot of people were handling them after they came off his hands.

"I didn't see any difference when they took the wraps away, but then everyone, including the Mosley camp, had their hands on them, and one came back dirty and one was clean," Margarito said. "I don't know what would've happened if they hadn't [unwrapped] my hands. I can tell you that was never my intention to do that, and I've never seen it happen before."

"Honestly, I don't even know why I'd have something like that in my hands. I think I could've broke my hand so easily with that."

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