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"I would think that any alleged glove padding would have started at that point"
Vivek Wallace (ESB): I think we all need to wait, rather than rush to judgment because nothing has been proven and although it looks like it may be real soon, it all remains speculation. To his defense, Antonio Margarito was recently on television giving his account of what happened and has not run away from the controversy at all - which takes a lot of guts, if nothing else - particularly considering the fact that he knows the public finds him to be guilty. All that being said, if he were actually found guilty today, my notion would be that it wasn't something that he's done all along. My intuition would tell me that if at all, it started after the loss to Paul Williams. When you consider the damage that his opponents took after that point - (Johnson, Cintron, and Cotto) - it paled in comparison to what his opponents suffered before, (Clottey, Santos, etc), with Sabastian Lujan being the lone exception. So if any time makes sense, I would think that any alleged glove padding would have started at that point - (after the Williams fight). As far as how it affects the sport? I think the sport will recover, but what I do think happened is that it took the spotlight off of a brilliant performance from Mosley that few thought he had in him in light of his own alleged substance use. We don't know the specifics with Mosley's alleged banned substance use, but what we do know is that he was clean the night of the Margarito fight and he looked better than he's looked at any point in his career. I don't condone cheating at any level, but I do hope the image of both men are restored and cleaned if in fact they were honest in statments given.
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