By Robert Morales

Oscar De La Hoya on Tuesday played host to a news conference promoting the Feb. 25 junior welterweight fight between Victor Ortiz and Hector Alatorre at Club Nokia at L.A. Live.

One of the issues that popped up as De La Hoya held court afterward was the idea that Antonio Margarito is going to try and get licensed in Texas so he can fight Carson Jones on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight title fight March 13 at Cowboys Stadium.

"I'm disgusted," De La Hoya said to BoxingScene.com. "The fact that they're going over California ... to get a license, I'm very disgusted by it."

De La Hoya said he recently watched the HBO documetary about the beating Billy Collins Jr. suffered at the hands of Luis Resto in June 1983. Resto and his trainer, Panama Lewis, went to prison after it was discovered padding had been removed from Resto's gloves. Lewis has since been banned from boxing in the United States. Resto, born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, was never able to regain his license to fight.

His career ruined, Collins died nine months later when he drove his car into a culvert.

"... When you're messing with somebody's life in that ring, you should be banned for life. That's my opinion," said De La Hoya, who, initially  Tuesday, said he did not think Margarito should be allowed to fight again.

Margarito was found to have plaster-like inserts in his hand wraps prior to his ninth-round technical knockout loss to "Sugar" Shane Mosley in January 2009 in Los Angeles. Margarito claimed he did not know the inserts were in his wraps.

Margarito and his trainer, Javier Capetillo, had their licenses revoked by the California State Athletic Commission last February 10.

Margarito is allowed to re-apply for his license in California a year after it was revoked.

But since Margarito's no-no occurred in California, De La Hoya said it is the state where Margarito should initially try to again get his license to fight, not Texas or anywhere else.

De La Hoya also suggested Margarito had to know his wraps had been tampered with. He said a fighter would know even if there was just some extra tape on his knuckles. It was in Margarito's knuckle pads that the plaster inserts were discovered.

De La Hoya did say that he would have less difficulty with Margarito coming back to fight if he would just admit he knew his wraps were loaded.

"If Margarito just comes out clean and says, 'Look, I did this, I'm sorry,' then that's a different story," De La Hoya said. "He's admitting it and that's fine. But admit it."