Margarito caught with plaster of Paris !

[southpaw_07]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/officials-found.html

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 su****ious 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

[southpaw_07]

This is what may happen when plaster of paris is used:

Resto, at a news conference on Thursday in New York, acknowledged that the tape used to wrap his hands in that fight had been soaked in plaster of Paris, giving him a pair of hardened casts underneath his unpadded gloves.

Collins suffered from blurred vision and depression after the June 16, 1983 fight.

Resto and his trainer, Panama Lewis, were convicted of assault and conspiracy and served jail time after a jury found they had tampered with the gloves. Both men were banned from boxing.

Check the interesting article from ESPN:http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=3329115

Here another one:
South African boxer Edward Mpofu banned for life for using plaster of paris under gloves during a bout in September

http://www.15rounds.com/south-africa...tember-111308/

[southpaw_07]

Hand Wraps Could Plaster Margarito's Career
Kevin Baxter of The Los Angeles Times writes about the incident regarding Antonio Margarito's hand wrapping for before his Saturday night with Shane Mosley...

"Margarito may be about to lose much of the respect he has in the boxing world after a su****ious substance likened to plaster of Paris was removed from his hand wrappings before he left the dressing room."

Plaster of Paris, those three words are very ugly in the sport of boxing. Margarito can rebound from the physical defeat administered by Shane Mosley, but if it is ruled that plaster was found on Margarito or his team, the public and legal backlash could ruin his career. If these reports of cheating ring true, instead of being remembered for an instant welterweight classic against Miguel Cotto, his legacy will be that of a man who tried to use the lowest of tactics in an inherently dangerous sport. A possible suspension and black balling from the sport could also be headed Margarito's way.

Boxing is not very forgiving of cheaters, ask Panama Lewis.

Let us not crucify Margarito yet, but if a legitimate news source like the Los Angeles Times labeled Margarito's seized wrapping plaster of Paris, it is not good news for the Tijuana Tornado.

http://www.******************.com/articles.php?id=6250

instead of the asteriks, it should be boxing confidential .com

[Anti-pinoy]

thats it, his carreer is officially over.

[ELHURACAN58]

Damn you Paris Hilton!!!!!!!

[KILLA RIGHT]

If he used it vs cotto he should be banned from boxing

[The_Italian]

If this turns out to be true then its going to leave lots of question marks on a lot of margarito's big wins over the span of his whole career.

If it turns out to be true i wont be ignorant enough to believe he only used them just this one time to fight mosley...i'd be inclined to believe he used them against other opponents as well...

Judging from how the fight went and how margarito wasnt really able to hurt mosley or even encourage him be more cautious leads me to believe margarito's punching strength might not be his strength at all...rather his accesscory in his boxing glove.

I dont know for sure yet so i dont want to automatically discredit margarito so i will wait for an official word.

It would be a true shame if this turns out to be true. Not only would it hurt him for the mosley fight but it hurts him for MANY of his previous fights...and could ruin his whole future career as a fighter.

I hope its not true since margarito is such a down to earth straight forward fighter...or at least appears that way.

[Chups]

Holy crap.............it's more serious than I thought!

[Spacey1991]

Holy crap.............it's more serious than I thought!

Agreed, when I heard about it I thought it was really, really bad for the fact that he tried to cheat... and wasn't sure on what damage it might have caused. However now I am more aware of what damages it could have caused and I think it was an absolute disgrace. If it is all true and there is no reasonable explanation then I think he should get a ban from boxing for a year or so.

I mean, I don't want to start saying "what if" but I am going to in this case;

• What if Margarito went into the fight in that condition... it could have caused Mosley permanent damage?
  
• What if he has done this in previous fights (I know there is no proof, but there is a chance) then that could take all of his credit and especially respect away?
  
• What if he wasn't caught, think of if he was successful because of this offense what kind of achievements he could have achieved and money he could have made... just from cheating?
  
• What if he continued like normal, and kept doing it without getting caught... think of the different injuries he could of caused... permanent injuries?

I think it is a disgrace if it is true and there is no reasonable explanation (By the way... I am not flaming Margarito just yet, I am waiting to see what happens first to see if there is a reasonable explanation. I just put what I will think if there isn't any reasonable explanation).

[Pullcounter]

to be fair to margarito they dont know what that substance is yet