Margarito would be a nobody if he were in his natural weight div

[Dynamite Kid]

Which ever weight you can be most effective at is your natural weight.

Margarito boils down to 147 so fair play to him. Should we discredit Bernard Hopkins because he is a feakishly hube 160lb`r?

No

Hopkins has a skillset to be effective at a lot of weight div. Margarito does not.

[aljosa_raos]

Thats all bull****.Margarito is just great fighter who wooped everyones ass!

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

That is probably, because since he has gotten his body down he does not let it blow up inbetween fights or he might just condition himself well to get down there.

answer me this then does he look like a WW or a LMW ?

What does height have to do with it.

He looks like a WW to me. If you can male the weight healthy, thats a natural weight for you, enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

You live and learn

Yep, and I learned and found your pic too

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

No

Hopkins has a skillset to be effective at a lot of weight div. Margarito does not.

So if you have boxing skills you are allowed to fight at the weight you want, but if you dont have boxing skills, then you have to fight in a higher weight? Nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kastrioti]

Probably LMW,MW something like that

Fighters fight in the division they feel most comfortable in, and that's their natural weight division.

[Dynamite Kid]

He looks like a WW to me. If you can male the weight healthy, thats a natural weight for you, enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Besides it being a cowardly thing to do its also dangerous and if its dangerous its a bad advertisement for Boxing when something goes wrong.

[littlemac]

Margarito would be a nobody if he were in his natural weight div. True Story.

He is able to walk through punches, because he should be no where near the WW div. Take away Margarito's physical advantages he is an average fighter.

When Marg has faced guys his own size he has looked bad or been beaten, Clottey/Williams.

[dondi330]

Oscar made the weight...lol

kermit cintron is
the same size if not bigger (body mass/frame)
so whats his excuse for crying and quitting in the 1st fight
and getting beat down again in the 2nd, KO'ed quicker actually

I think If anyone is going to back Margarito, that's fine.. More power to you.
He can make the weight then he can make the weight...but then don't go to the Oscar De La Hoe thread and say "Oscar was weight drained its not fair" "Oscar could have beat Pac if this and that" YOU GUYS KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!
REMEMBER OSCAR MADE THE WEIGHT TOO...LOL.

[Kid McCoy]

Besides it being a cowardly thing to do its also dangerous and if its dangerous its a bad advertisement for Boxing when something goes wrong.

Margarito is just one of many, many fighters who exploit the modern day rules which allow weigh-ins a couple of days before the fight. It means they can boil down to unnatural weights, and then have time to rehydrate themselves and probably enter the ring 10-12lbs over the divisional limit, leading to some horrible mismatches.

How else could De La Hoya, a natural welter, win titles at 130 and 135? There's no way he could fight healthily at those weights were he forced to weigh in the same day. Likewise Gatti, whose ring weight for his "140lb" bout against Joey Gamache was 160.

Restore same-day weigh-ins and we'll go back to having fighters fight where nature intended.