Has The Media Overblown The Antonio Margarito Scandal?

[Dave Rado]

If I'm such a Margarito nuthugger.....why would I be ok with a lifetime ban for trying to cheat in the Mosley fight? Is that something a nuthugger would say? What's so hard to understand that this is about a man being guilty without any legit proof in the Cotto fight? You don't seem to be very smart.

Regarding the Cotto fight, would you agree that it should be investigated? At the very least they could test those knuckle wraps for Cotto's DNA.

[fdotorres]

No disrespect or anything, it wasn't a broken nose.

yes, it was a broken nose. i saw cotto wednesday after the fight (4 days later), and the middle of his nose was positioned DIAGONALLY. sorry, but that's as broken as it gets

[oc9979]

Til they say sumthin about his past fghts, which they never will, this should be dismissed FFS. He got caught, he's suspended, that's it. It was a big issue, but no need to keep bitchin about it.

CSAC wont say anything about the Cotto fight because it wasn't in California so it is not their responsabilities to do so. NSAC should investigate

[El Dominicano]

By Brent Matteo Alderson - Recently one of the sport’s beat writers commented that members of the media were overly critical of Antonio Margarito because they hadn’t bought into his prowess as a fighter and used the incident with the wraps to validate their original opinion of him in order appease their own egos. This writer also wrote that certain journalists were quick to disparage Margarito in an attempt to devalue the writers that held the Mexican slugger in high regard. Talk about some baloney, hasn’t everyone heard of Dempsey-Willard? [details]

I believe they did. All on an attempt to cheat

[dondi330]

He needs a rest anyways, fighting Williams, Clottey, Cintron, Cotto, Mosley takes its toll. Maybe if he comes back he can fight for a vacant belt like Cotto or pick on "Contenders".

He has to be a man and take his punishment. I understand the man has bills and has a family to feed but if he fights in Mexico, it would be a very dumb move in my opinion.

Hate.

Now I know where Trinidad got his cheating ways then. He got em from Luis Resto, your PR cousin.

More ignorant racist hate. Thats the only thing your in here for, to start little racial wars.


Your the only one that I see getting owned all the time, your like a house after the last mortgage payment, like a slave in the old days,like YOU on any Margarito defending thread, like a 105 lb man in a cell with a 250 lb rapist, you are owned.

[Pullcounter]

cotto does fight for a lot of vacant belts though...

[dans]

cotto does fight for a lot of vacant belts though...

I never understood that argument.

What does it matter if you're fighting the best?

[Alifan7246]

Shady journalism

Who are the "writers" the author is talking about? Who's "one of the sports beat writers"?

Here is Doug Fischer's comment from Ring, "I agree that some members of the media are going overboard with their condemnation of Margarito, but it should be expected and there are a few reasons for this. First and foremost what was done to his wraps was a reprehensible act. Mosley could have been maimed or killed if those inserts weren’t discovered by Naazim Richardson, so most boxing writers are going to be very emotional when they write about Margarito and his career. No. 2 until the Cotto fight Margarito was never really well received by the majority of the boxing media. The thought was that he was an average tough Mexican with good conditioning and that’s what most members of the fight press wrote and said about him. If anything he was a pain in the ass because of mouthy West Coast internet writers like Steve Kim and I. When many in the boxing media wanted to anoint Floyd Mayweather as the second coming of Sugar Ray Leonard, writers like Kim and I pointed out that “Money” turned down career-high bucks and even gave up cash to avoid the Mexican. This pissed a lot of East Coast and mainstream guys off. (I don’t know why, but it did.) However, despite setbacks like the Paul Williams loss, Margarito would not go away and he proved a lot of people wrong with the Cotto victory (including me). Let’s face it, most folks in this business hate to be wrong. So when Cappy got caught, it was like all the negative stuff they said about Margarito for years were suddenly proved right and their predictions for the Cotto fight no longer counted. And with the egos in this business, you had to know that they were going to say and write it over and over again that every recent Margarito victory is now in question if not null and void.

I tell you something else -- and I’m probably the only boxing writer with the balls to admit this -- the fact that MaxBoxing's "K9" was a big Margarito supporter only made things worse for the Mexican mauler when the s__t hit the fan. I’ve known Steve for years, I consider him a friend, and I have the utmost respect for him and his writing, but the Korean Hammer is not the friendliest person out there. He’s a brutally honest guy who calls things as he sees them and he’s got an attitude that rubs A LOT of fellow boxing media the wrong the way. Nobody will admit to this, but I think when Margarito took a fall, a lot boxing writers viewed it as a chance to get some digs in at Kim and thus they gave Margarito a few extra kicks on his way down, if you know what I m.."

All these guys, Steve Kim included are swinging on Top Rank's nuts and won't print the truth when they should be critical of Margarito, but not too many guys will bite the hand that feeds them. SHADY JOURNALISM.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Using plaster of paris is A LOT worse then using a headbutt or a low blow. Steroids are bad too, but plaster of paris can be deadly. It was unfair and way worse then anything Hopkins, Hatton, Trinidad, or others did.

I don't see where I said otherwise because that wasn't the point.


I merely mentioned that cheating goes far beyond Margarito and that many people were just waiting for anything to be able to bash him for.


******ly, he supplied it.


It doesn't take away from the fact that there are many circumstances of cheating that people overlook in the sport of boxing because of who the fighter is and how they view him.

[Derranged]

If I'm such a Margarito nuthugger.....why would I be ok with a lifetime ban for trying to cheat in the Mosley fight? Is that something a nuthugger would say? What's so hard to understand that this is about a man being guilty without any legit proof in the Cotto fight? You don't seem to be very smart.

I must have misunderstood... I thought you were in denial about his cheating. My mistake.

And I agree, I dont think he should be punished for fights that we think he cheated in.