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you know that tito was a cheater too right?Imagine if Cotto was brain dead after fighting Marga-cheato?
I truly think it just goes to show you how far Mexican fighters and Mexican trainers have to go to beat a true Puerto Rican boxing warrior like Miguel Angel Cotto, A.K.A The MAC.
There is no doubt in my mind he had that (Plaster like substance) on his gloves when he fought Cotto on July 26 2008.
Mexican's have really showed the world that this Puerto Rican and mexican boxing rivalry has gotten to there heads.
I'm Puerto Rican and I personally take this as a wake up call on how to deal with Mexican fighters and trainers from this point forward.
Margarito better be on a high security alert when he enters New York City in June of 09. Trust me..
WAR COTTO- WAR PUERTO RICO-
i wouldnt be so happy if I were youComment
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Espinoza touched on the hand wraps controversy with Margarito. Last Saturday, 30-minutes before Margarito would head to the ring to fight Mosley, a “plaster-like” material was found in Margarito’s wraps by an inspector for the California State Athletic Commission. Mosley’s trainer, ****m Richardson, saw something strange with Margarito’s wraps and asked to feel them.“When he put the wrapping on, I asked if I could feel it and when I felt it, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is too hard,’ ” Richardson said to Yahoo Sports.
“When the commission flipped the [tape] over, a little block of gauze-like plaster fell out. I said, ‘Unwrap the other hand,’ and they were saying, ‘Oh, oh, the other hand is good.’ I asked the commissioner, ‘What if I unwrap the other hand at the end of the fight and it falls out of there, too?’
Dean Lohuis, the co-interim executive director of the California State Athletic Commission, told Yahoo Sports that both pieces of the plaster-like material were slipped in underneath the legal tape that was already placed on Margarito’s hands by his trainer Javier Capetillo. Mosley’s attorney Judd Burstein had to arrive in the dressing room before a member of the commission put the pieces in a box and handed them to Lohuis.
“[Richardson] made them unwrap it. And when they unwrapped the other hand, another one fell out. It was wet with a little plaster on it.”
Margarito had to rewrap his hands three times before they were deemed legal.
Espinoza says that nobody on Margarito’s team did anything illegal and everything will be cleared up when the California commission is done with their investigation.
"We did not do anything illegal. What happened was that Capetillo prepared the gauzes that are used, two weeks before [the fight] and had them in a lump with cloth that apparently was humid and therefore hardened,” Espinoza said. “There was no substance like that there [the plaster]. The commission asked us to bandage his hands again and we did.”
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Margarito's record after the 10th round before the cotto fight was
2-1 0 KO's
Cotto was 6-0 3 KO's
You don't suddenly get power.
I just watched the fight over again this morning and it makes sense that his hands were plastered for the cotto fight. Throughout the fight Margarito's punches were slower but were still somehow slashing and cutting. The first round it looks as if Margarito was looking for one shot, and once he started heaving those bricks he began to do damage.
For example, Mosley is alleged to have used steroids for the second DLH fight right? Watching the fight over, you can clearly see Shane was looking for the one punch KO because psychologically, you know you have the advantage.Comment
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