Margarito’s Camp Speaks on Hand Wraps Controversy

To add to this: IF it is discovered by the CSAC that the substance would've hardened, I suggest they be treated like Panama Lewis. They should all be charged with attempted manslaughter and banned from boxing FOR LIFE. That includes Margarito and everyone on his team, right down to the towel boy in his gym. You're a dumbass. First of all the "plaster" hasn't been tested yet.

While I do not codone steriod use Mosley passed a polygraph test where he said he was not aware of the elements used in the products he was provided had illegal substances in them. He passed the polygraph so for me that lets me know he did not do it intentionally. The fact you would stoop as low as loading up your gloves in a prize fight and risk perminate injury to your opponent is sick. I hope it is not true. if it is then he got what he deserved when the reff jumped in a little bit late before stopping the fight......Lefty BS its not hard to pass a lie detector test even if you're lying. I passed once when i was lying. Then I took another one a year later to help out a friend, and i was telling the truth and the damn lie detector said i was lying. Im not trying to take the victory away from SSM. It's just that top elite athletes know every little thing that goes in their body, and i belive SSM knew he was taking roids.

I can't help but compare this to (For those of us that remember) Sammy Sosa and the corked bat incident. Sammy after all those home runs and Margarito after stopping Cotto. Different sport, same result? We'll see what happens after the comission gets done. :?!:

Do you take vitamins? You ever drink a protien shake? You ever eat green tea pills or drink an energy drink? He thought he was taking a legal substance that would help his body. Like muscle milk or Wye drink....Not the same as injecting horse juice or using HGH....It is what it si he said under oath and while hooked up to a polygraph that he didnt knowingly use illegal substances and he passed. To me that holds up big those things arent easy to fool....Lefty I don't take any supplements, I'm all natural. Water only. You do understand what "performance enhancing" means don't you? It means it allows a performer to perform beyond their natural ability. That is cheating.

Margarito's legacy will never be the same after this. Don't worry son, he never had a "legacy" to begin with.

I even told my friend after the cotto-marg fight that I found it very weird that it looked like cotto's punches were much more devastating and Marg's punches didn't seem all that punishing yet he did so much more damage to cotto. I just brushed it off as cotto not being able to take punishment, but that all makes sense now.

Billy Collins Jr.: http://machochip.com/Billy%20Collins%20Jr.jpg Miguel Cotto: http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Miguel+Cotto+v+Antonio+Margarito+2_P9j9BaPVkl.jpg If it's found out that Margarito's glove was loaded I'd espect to see him and members of his team behind bars followed by a lifetime suspension. Panama Lewis did 6 years. Resto 3. The excuse made by Team Margarito is one of the lamest cheater excuse I've heard in a while and I've heard plenty bad ones. The roids was in the toothpaste. I'm being framed: Dieter Baumann (track & field). The high bloodlevel is caused by an unborn twin twin in my stomach: Tyler Hamilton (male cyclist). I'm bumping the Resto-Collins fight. May Panama Lewis forever live in infamy.............................................................................Bat.

Boxingscene.com, Espinoza denied that there had been any wrongdoing by Margarito or his trainer, Javier Capetillo, and offered the explanation that the “plaster-like” substances in question were actually gauzes that had been prepared two weeks before the fight with a wet cloth that caused the gauze to become humid and then hard. that sounds like a guilty explanation to me. :nonono: this is very sad cuz the marg-cotto fight was such a great fight for boxing and now that great moment in boxing has been severely tarnished because of this.

Polygraphs are not beyond fail either. However, in any case, Shane was trying to get an advantage by using performance enhancing drugs whether they are legal or not. Do you take vitamins? You ever drink a protien shake? You ever eat green tea pills or drink an energy drink? He thought he was taking a legal substance that would help his body. Like muscle milk or Wye drink....Not the same as injecting horse juice or using HGH....It is what it si he said under oath and while hooked up to a polygraph that he didnt knowingly use illegal substances and he passed. To me that holds up big those things arent easy to fool....Lefty

To add to this: IF it is discovered by the CSAC that the substance would've hardened, I suggest they be treated like Panama Lewis. They should all be charged with attempted manslaughter and banned from boxing FOR LIFE. That includes Margarito and everyone on his team, right down to the towel boy in his gym. I agree.. What does it take, Cotto or Mosley getting taken out on a stretcher and left for brain dead? WTF?

for margarito's sake - i hope its deemed nothing serious - if he did doctor that shit and fukked my boy up i hope he burnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :firedevil To add to this: IF it is discovered by the CSAC that the substance would've hardened, I suggest they be treated like Panama Lewis. They should all be charged with attempted manslaughter and banned from boxing FOR LIFE. That includes Margarito and everyone on his team, right down to the towel boy in his gym.

The substances removed from his gloves, whatever they were, are now in the custody of the CSAC and that body will rule on the issue in due time. holyshitttttttttt

Taking performance enhancing drugs is not acceptable in any shape, form, or fashion. Cheating is cheating. If Tony is found guilty on his charges, fvck him. However, just as in Shanes case, I'll hold my thoughts until the case is closed Man, you're one of the most mature, honest posters on this site

Shane passed a poly graph so he is not lying. Plus he was not on steriods the night he whoop Margs ass.....Lefty Polygraphs arent 100%, not even close. That's why they are not admissable in court. Im not saying he's not telling the truth but Im jsut saying a polygraph isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I dont know the story seems to be changing. First it was additional gauze that was applied to high. Now its gauze that was prepared weeks before and got wet and "hardened".

Shane passed a poly graph so he is not lying. Plus he was not on steriods the night he whoop Margs ass.....Lefty Polygraphs are not beyond fail either. However, in any case, Shane was trying to get an advantage by using performance enhancing drugs whether they are legal or not.

Shane passed a poly graph so he is not lying. Plus he was not on steriods the night he whoop Margs ass.....Lefty Antonio Margarito lost more than a fight Saturday. After suffering through nine rounds of brutal punishment at the gloved but deadly hands of Shane Mosley at Staples Center, Margarito hobbled from the ring without his WBC welterweight championship belt, with little chance at a potential $11-million December date with Manny Pacquiao and with no clue where it all went. Oh, and as if that weren't enough, Margarito may be about to lose much of the respect he has in the boxing world after a suspicious substance likened to plaster of Paris was removed from his hand wrappings before he left the dressing room. The California State Athletic Commission has reportedly seized two pads and is investigating, but since the substance was removed from Margarito's hand wraps before he entered the ring, Saturday's bout wasn't affected -- though the champion's focus clearly was. "I just kept getting caught," a dazed Margarito said. "I just kept caught over and over." His corner -- as well as a pro-Margarito crowd of 20,820 -- was equally confused. "Something happened in the first round," his trainer Javier Capetillo said. "He didn't seem to be really . It was frustrating for me to watch. "It could have been a focus problem. He kept getting hit by hard rights." It may have started in the first round -- or perhaps in the dressing room beforehand -- but it continued until 23 seconds into the ninth round when Capetillo threw in the towel after watching his defenseless fighter, both hands at his side, take shot after shot as he slumped against the ropes near his corner. "Why'd they stop it?" Margarito, who apparently lost his senses as well, asked from the ring. "I could have continued." For Margarito, who grew up poor on the potholed streets of Tijuana, it was an inglorious end to what was shaping up to be a fairy tale. After leaving home as a teenager, he turned to boxing to keep him out of trouble -- and it may have saved his life after he turned pro at 15. He married his grade-school sweetheart, fought his way up the ladder by fighting for little more than cab fare in dank Mexican gyms and the ballrooms of cheap California hotels before finally reaching the big time with a convincing 11th-round knockout of previously unbeaten Miguel Cotto in July. He made $1.6 million for that fight, and $2.3 million Saturday. His promoter, Bob Arum, confident of a victory over Mosley, was already talking of a rematch with Cotto in June and a bout with Pacquiao, the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, in December. And since Arum promotes all three boxers, there's a good chance he could have made all that happen. David Copperfield couldn't make that happen now. Afterward, Mosley said he wanted Cotto (32-1) next -- though Cotto has a date with Michael Jennings (34-1) next month to get through first. "Cotto is the next biggest fight. I want to fight mega-fights," Mosley said. A gracious Mosley also talked about a rematch with Margarito. That, however, seems unlikely in the near future, especially given the alleged subterfuge that took place before Saturday's fight. Mosley's physician, Dr. Robert Olvera, said the substance taken from Margarito's wrapped hands was similar to the material used to make casts. "It gets hard and mobile," he said, likening the substance to plaster of Paris. Judd Burstein, Mosley's lawyer, said concerns of a scenario similar to the one he said played out Saturday had been discussed at the rules meeting Friday and "they went ahead and violated it" anyway. An official with Golden Boy Promotions, Mosley's promoter, which of late has been making nice with rival Top Rank, Margarito's promoter, called it "a serious offense. That's cheating." For his part the 37-year-old Mosley, who seemed to absolve the 30-year-old Margarito of any blame afterward, praised his trainer, Nazzim Richardson. "My trainer was on his job," he said. "He caught him." Top Rank President Todd duBoef, meanwhile, tried to downplay the incident, saying that he was told only that additional gauze had been taken from his fighter's hands. No matter how that eventually plays out, Margarito, who went straight from the ring to the hospital, is now left to pick up the shattered pieces of a career -- and perhaps of plaster -- that flamed out just as it appeared to be taking off. "My life has changed a lot," he said in the days leading up to the fight. "It's changed in that everyone wants an autograph, they want to shake my hand. But I still want to give more. "The truth is, I have a lot more to accomplish." Especially given all that he lost Saturday.

Taking performance enhancing drugs is not acceptable in any shape, form, or fashion. Cheating is cheating. If Tony is found guilty on his charges, fvck him. However, just as in Shanes case, I'll hold my thoughts until the case is closed ^^^ Co-sign to thee mufukin fullest

If it does turn out to be cheating then at least Karma has already caught up with them. '' My Name Is Margarito ''

Taking performance enhancing drugs is not acceptable in any shape, form, or fashion. Cheating is cheating. If Tony is found guilty on his charges, fvck him. However, just as in Shanes case, I'll hold my thoughts until the case is closed Shane passed a poly graph so he is not lying. Plus he was not on steriods the night he whoop Margs ass.....Lefty