Margarito's Suspension Might Get Reversed
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they cheated bro“Common hand cream” could have caused the controversy?
“…Read the report. The report says that they have this piece of gauze and they say they found calcium and sodium which is present in plaster paris,” said Bob Arum on Tuesday. “Well, they had the whole ****** piece so they’re not saying it’s plaster of paris. What they didn’t say is that common hand cream that is used by fighters, has sodium and calcium in it. And they said in the report sodium and calcium is in plaster of paris but it’s in a lot of other substances. So that report supports Margarito’s position, doesn’t re-affirm the State’s position. And an appeal will be filed this week and it will be reversed. It has to be reversed.”
Arum continued: “What they did to Margarito was a complete violation of due process. They applied the standard that if you’re the boss, you’re responsible for what your underlings do. Now that is only law in certain areas. If you own a bar and your bartender violates the law, you, as the bar owner, are responsible. Why? Because the bartender is not licensed. You’re licensed. But when you have a trainer and a second and they’re licensed by the State, just as you the boxer is, that doesn’t apply. Yes, if something is wrong, get the wrong-doer but not the guy who is innocent.”
Arum went on some more: “Let’s assume the decision is overpowered, and you then book him in his next fight against the winner of Cotto and Clottey. And you have television cameras and everything in at the wrapping, so you assure that everything is kosher, right? And then if he wins, his reputation is restored.”
To play devil’s advocate, I popped Arum with this question: It’s almost like Margarito’s acting like a guilty guy though, he’s almost gone kind of into hiding.
Arum’s response: “That’s bull****.”
I countered: He hasn’t come out proclaiming his innocence if he’s really innocent. He fired the trainer (Javier Capetillo).
Arum: “That’s not true. That’s not true. You have to understand he is being represented by the best lawyers in Los Angeles. And what he says and doesn’t say is guided by them.
So there you have it. After the controversy from the Shane Mosley hand-wrapping incident before the fight on Jan. 24, Antonio Margarito may soon be next in line for the winner of Cotto vs. Clottey, later in 2009. He might even get his punishment (boxing license suspended for one year on Feb. 11) reversed in the coming weeks after an appeal is filed later this week.
at the very very VERY least C****tillo cheated but they cheated none the less
why?
well C****tillo admitted to cheating when he tried several excuses as to why those pads were in his bag.
at the hearing things were established:
CSAC messed up in the handling of the pads. No fewer than 12 people handled the pads after brother ****m reported irregularities. That is without them being sealed in bag so a number of hands touched them
that Tony was unaware of what was going on and that there was a chance he moy not have known what those pads were. Several CSAC officials and witnesses admitted that it was Tony who stopped the arguing about the pads and insisted C****tillo rewap the hands according to what they wanted
so with that established all C****tillo had to do once he was on the stand (lying or not) is say he had no idea what was on those pads and that since everyone touched them he couldn't control what was on them.
nope
he basically admitted wrong doing by first explaining that his bag is the community bag at the gym (truth. all his other fighters throw their wraps in his bag) and that those could have been anyone's pads. Where he ****ed up is that he already had one pad on Tony and had the other one ready to wrap. You don't make the same "mistake" twice.
he then blamed one of his fighters for putting those pads in his bag (Brian Ramirez was the only other fighter he trained that was on the 1/24 card) and that he had no knowledge that he had them
he then said that those were old training pads.
so if this is indeed lotion why would this man go to great lengths to make excuse after excuse after excuse as to how those pads got into his bag? Couldn't he have said "hey those are normal and you guys ****ed with them"?
the only speculation left is whether Tony knew or not. No not a single one of us sideline investigators knows or not whether he knew. I have heard several fighters say they know everything that goes on their hands yet be literally asleep during the wrappings. I know there are guys so accute to whatever is going on around them they can tell whether their hands are wrapped even mere milimeters off. Shane Mosley said in the video interview I did with him for this site he didnt think Tony knew because he doesn't pay attention to his wrappings.
that is indeed the only question left NOT whether those pads were tampered with
they were
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.........Cotto v.s. Margarito 2 and POWILL v.s.Quintana 3 then? agreed?
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