Poll: Did Margarito have illegal hand wraps for his fight against Cotto?

wraps situation aside, margarito is a special fighter and i will always admire him and support him, we still dont know what exactly is going on and we have ABSOLUTELY no idea how many times he has been doing this. people (haters like you) are jumping to conclusions just to discredit his past accomplishments. and please stop saying that im not a fan of this sport, you sound idiotic :kiss: http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaster Your an idiot for supporting this cheating fraud. Why would he magically start cheating in his 40th pro fight?? You disrespect the sport. The safety of fighters should be paramount. Your a moron and I'm done with you.

he is a cheater and thats sucks cuz i spoke of him highly

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i never said it was ok for margarito or anyone to do it, moron. all im saying is that youre a hypocrite for shitting all over margarito when your pride and joy tito is also infamous for this. think before you speak jackass :smashfrea This coming from the guy who has a cheating coward on his sig. Margarito is a cheater who disrespects the sport of boxing and himself. You support that by having him on your sig. A hypocrite who speaks of hipocrisy. You get nothing from me and you are not a fan of this sport.

um..... duh?

Makes sense for Cotto's fans to jump all over this now. They got a new excuse. I don't know if he was doin dirt before or not, but Marg's gonna have some explainin to do.

you're in no position to talk shit wetsexyllamaPR. your boy tito is still the poster boy "special" hand wraps. So because you think another fighter has done it it's ok for Marge to do it? Your not a fan of boxing if you excuse this despicable act that can ruin a man's career. Boxing is already a dangerous enough sport when it's fair. You get nothing from me.

Why begin now? Today he was a clear favorite, going against an "old" Mosley. Why not do it against a huge welterweight in Paul Williams or a relentless warrior in Cotto?

of course he did.

no shot ..im pissed they found anything at all its just taking away from mosleys win ..he could have had steel in his gloves he woulda still won ..mosley won every round and koed him

I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

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Officials found what one doctor described as plaster of Paris hidden in the wrapped hands of Antonio Margarito (above left at the weigh-in Friday) shortly before the welterweight champion's title defense against Shane Mosley (above right) on Saturday at the Staples Center, leading to accusations that Margarito may have been trying to cheat. According to Judd Burstein, the attorney for Mosley, Margarito had wet pads in the wrapping. Mosley's doctor, Robert Olvera, likened the material to the type of plaster used to make casts. "It gets hard and mobile," said Olvera, who said he scratched the pad and "flakes of plaster of Paris" came off. Burstein said he seized the pad removed from the wrapping and another pad found in Margarito's dressing room. Both were placed in a sealed box that was given to Dean Lohuis of the California Boxing Commission for further study. Burstein said representatives of both boxers "discussed this exact issue" at Friday's rules meeting "and they went ahead and violated it." After the suspicious pads were removed from Margarito's dressing room, the boxer's hands were rewrapped and the fight went off on time. Because the violation was caught before Margarito stepped into the ring, Margarito's camp will likely be subject to little more than a disciplinary action if the substance is found to be illegal. Nazzim Richardson, the trainer for Mosley, was the first to notice something unusual about Margarito's wrap job and asked officials to take the tape off. That's when the foreign substance was discovered, seized and placed in a box for investigation after the bout. "That's a serious offense," an official with Golden Boy, Mosley's promoter, said. "That's cheating." Mosley was informed of the discovery before the fight, Burstein said. According to the lawyer, Mosley said he took that as evidence that Margarito "was scared" going into the bout. Todd duBoef, president of Top Rank, Margarito's promoter, shrugged and said he was told only that "additional gauze" had been taken off his fighter's hand wraps. -- Kevin Baxter and Lance Pugmire