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Todd duBoef, president of Top Rank, which promotes Margarito, said he believed all that was removed was "additional gauze," but Schaefer saw a photo of what was taken away and said, "it's more than additional gauze, that's not a good thing to say. There was a white pad with a substance that was a grayish, concrete color on it.
"The thing is, you wonder now how many times he did it before."
That indeed is on the mind of Margarito's defeated July opponent, Miguel Cotto, who lost by 11th-round TKO to Margarito -- his first career defeat.
My Times colleague Kevin Baxter learned Cotto will appear at a news conference in Puerto Rico Wednesday to discuss a new boxing promotion company he'll oversee. There, he'll also address questions about whether he thinks Margarito cheated against him.
"That's all that anyone is talking about down here," a Cotto camp source told Baxter. That individual could not be identified because he is not allowed by the boxer to discuss the controversy publicly.
"The thing is, you wonder now how many times he did it before."
That indeed is on the mind of Margarito's defeated July opponent, Miguel Cotto, who lost by 11th-round TKO to Margarito -- his first career defeat.
My Times colleague Kevin Baxter learned Cotto will appear at a news conference in Puerto Rico Wednesday to discuss a new boxing promotion company he'll oversee. There, he'll also address questions about whether he thinks Margarito cheated against him.
"That's all that anyone is talking about down here," a Cotto camp source told Baxter. That individual could not be identified because he is not allowed by the boxer to discuss the controversy publicly.
do the investigation. Problem is that the commision is part of the case and looks bad if the wraps were illegal and their supervisor didn't notice.
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