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Gov, Arnold Schwarznegger: "Team Margarito is going to pay for cheating.
Margocheato Heats Up, HBO Buys 1983 Glove Tamper Scandal Docu!
Michael Marley
2/1/2009
Margocheato, not Margarito. While the Internet forums are rife with speculation and innuendo about the Antonio Margarito-Shane Mosley “loaded gloves” controversy, interest in cheating in boxing is high.
Which explains why HBO has bought the rights to producer Eric Drath’s documentary “Cornered,” which replays and reexamined the 1983 Madison Square Garden fight between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto.
Trainer Carlos “Panama” Lewis removed all the padding from Resto’s gloves, turning his boxer’s fists into brass knuckle type weapons. Collins was savagely beaten during the fight and, when it was discovered how the Resto camp had cheated, Lewis and Resto were banned from boxing for life. The duo also did short bids in an upstate New York prison the name of which was, appropriately, the Collins Penitentiary.
Veteran trainer Artie Curley was also in Resto’s dressing room and corner. It is my belief that he knew what Lewis did but said nothing before or after the criminal act.
In an interview for Drath’s documentary, Resto admitted that he and Lewis doctored gloves for other bouts.
What’s been lost in the shuffle since 1983 is something I know for a fact. I was at the Garden that night and the two NYSAC officials who were supposed to inspect Resto’s gloves before never did so. One of the two was drunk while “on duty” at the card. Both men are now dead.
The California State Athletic Commission continues to probe the “hardened” wrappings which were removed when Mosley trainer ****m Richardson blew the whistle to inspectors. Reports have likened the some of the wrapping material as being similar to plaster.
Meanwhile, a veteran Nevada commission official tells B0xingConfidential that California believes it has the goods on being Margarito and chief trainer Javier Capetillo being bad.
“I’ve spoken to some people over there,” the Nevada source said. “They are going to bring the hammer down on these guys. It doesn’t help the Margarito team’s situation that Gov, Schwarznegger was sitting at ringside. At the end of the day, the governor feels that it’s his commission and he wants any wrongdoers held accountable.”
The CSAC will begin a hearing on the matter Feb. 10.
The best outcome I can see for Margarito is if Capetillo tells the commission he was the cheater and that the fighter did not know what was going on.
California is looking, and rightfully so, to suspend and fine someone. If Capetillo plays fall guy, I think Margarito will receive lighter punishment or even possibly escape any interruption of his ring career.
Michael Marley'�s Boxing Confidential� News, Analysis, and Commentary
Michael Marley
2/1/2009
Margocheato, not Margarito. While the Internet forums are rife with speculation and innuendo about the Antonio Margarito-Shane Mosley “loaded gloves” controversy, interest in cheating in boxing is high.
Which explains why HBO has bought the rights to producer Eric Drath’s documentary “Cornered,” which replays and reexamined the 1983 Madison Square Garden fight between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto.
Trainer Carlos “Panama” Lewis removed all the padding from Resto’s gloves, turning his boxer’s fists into brass knuckle type weapons. Collins was savagely beaten during the fight and, when it was discovered how the Resto camp had cheated, Lewis and Resto were banned from boxing for life. The duo also did short bids in an upstate New York prison the name of which was, appropriately, the Collins Penitentiary.
Veteran trainer Artie Curley was also in Resto’s dressing room and corner. It is my belief that he knew what Lewis did but said nothing before or after the criminal act.
In an interview for Drath’s documentary, Resto admitted that he and Lewis doctored gloves for other bouts.
What’s been lost in the shuffle since 1983 is something I know for a fact. I was at the Garden that night and the two NYSAC officials who were supposed to inspect Resto’s gloves before never did so. One of the two was drunk while “on duty” at the card. Both men are now dead.
The California State Athletic Commission continues to probe the “hardened” wrappings which were removed when Mosley trainer ****m Richardson blew the whistle to inspectors. Reports have likened the some of the wrapping material as being similar to plaster.
Meanwhile, a veteran Nevada commission official tells B0xingConfidential that California believes it has the goods on being Margarito and chief trainer Javier Capetillo being bad.
“I’ve spoken to some people over there,” the Nevada source said. “They are going to bring the hammer down on these guys. It doesn’t help the Margarito team’s situation that Gov, Schwarznegger was sitting at ringside. At the end of the day, the governor feels that it’s his commission and he wants any wrongdoers held accountable.”
The CSAC will begin a hearing on the matter Feb. 10.
The best outcome I can see for Margarito is if Capetillo tells the commission he was the cheater and that the fighter did not know what was going on.
California is looking, and rightfully so, to suspend and fine someone. If Capetillo plays fall guy, I think Margarito will receive lighter punishment or even possibly escape any interruption of his ring career.
Michael Marley'�s Boxing Confidential� News, Analysis, and Commentary
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