By Lem Satterfield
Robert Garcia, trainer of former three-time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito, had a few laughs while taunting Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach. Garcia's taunts were a direct response to some of the recent comments that were made by Pacquiao and Roach, with respect to last year's handwraps scandal involving Margarito.
The Mexican fighter has claimed no knowledge of the illegal hand wrappings in his gloves that led to a scandal that cost him his boxing license in America for more than a year. Prior to his ninth-round knockout loss to Shane Mosley in January of 2009, Mosley's trainer, Naazim Richardson, discovered a plaster-like substance in one of the gloves of Margarito that was removed and confiscated prior to Margarito's defeat.
Margarto claimed that his former trainer, Javier Capetillo, acted alone. He lost his license to box last February, and only regained it in August when the Texas commission approved his application for a license. Pacquiao and Roach believe Margarito had full knowledge of the plaster-like substance being placed in his wraps.
"You have fu****g rocks in your hand, you know it. Against Daniel Santos and Paul Williams and so forth, he doesn't look like he's that big a puncher," Roach told Robert Morales of BoxingScene.com.
Garcia taunted both Pacquiao and Roach - by advising them to keep a firm watch on the wrapping of Margarito's hands on the day of the fight. Margarito-Pacquiao takes place on November 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Texas.
"Manny, be careful. Freddie Roach, you had better be in the dressing room like you said. You had better be there all of the time. Watch out, Freddie Roach," Garcia told FanHouse.
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here .
