By Michael Marley

With everyone else chiming in with one take or another from the peanut gallery, one major boxing voice has remained totally silent of the Antonio Margarito boxing license controversy.

Hint, hint, his initials are FJM unless you knew him as FJS back during his amateur career when he carried his mother's name and eschewed his father's last name.

Who would have thunk it?

He's got the biggest mouth in the fight game.

He views himself as “The Leader” in boxing just like ESPN refers to itself grandly as “The Sports Leader.”

In his alleged mind, he's the resident president of all of boxing.

Yet not a peep from Mayweather as to his feelings on the caught plasterhanded Mexican handwrap cheater's getting a license in California, in Mayweather's state of legal domicile (Nevada) or in Texas where it appears Bob Arum's coughing up a pair of $10 bills will get that coveted license for his controversial charge.

I don't think it takes an Everlast Einstein to figure out why “Money May” is keeping his large pie hole closed on this issue.

Why would he want to call more attention to the fact that he ducked and dodged the rugged Margarito back when no one suspected him of being a handwrap cheater.

In fact, that would underline how they were both promoted by Mr. Arum and how Mayweather never called Margarito out.

Mayweather knew, at least back then, it was a bad style matchup for him, that back then the Tijuana Tornado may have handed him first professional ring loss due to greater physical strength and punching power.

No, the old Margarito, that was one big bear that Mayweather never wanted to hunt down.

Now the new and diminished Margarito, the one Shane Mosley spindled, folded and mutilated at the scene of the attempted crime, Mayweather would accept that fight in a heartbeat if he knew he could another $22 million or so.

By keeping the lid on his opinion on Margarito and the whole scandal, Mayweather is doing something I rarely accuse him of.

He may not be the brightest lamp in the library but, by zipping his lips on this one, he's doing something smart, something slick.

Let the commissions sort it out.

Mayweather's opinion on Margarito is that he has no opinion, at least no public one.

That is what you call self-restraint.

Michael Marley is the national boxing examiner for examiner.com. To read more stories by Michael Marley, Click Here .