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Antonio Margarito, caught cheating with his loaded handwraps before he fought and lost to Sugar Shane Mosley Jan. 24 in Los Angeles, is not doing any California dreaming.
Accroding to his promoter, Bob Arum, the Tijuana Tornado will be able to return to the ring in virtually any other state come February.
The way Arum tells it, the one-year California commission expires in January 2010 and Margarito has no plans to go hat in hand before that board seeking to be relicensed.
“The ABC (Association of Boxing Commissions) has said he is free to apply for a license anywhere outside of California when the suspension ends,” Arum said Wednesday. “So that is what he will do.”
Margarito—or “Margocheato” as he’s become known—looms as a wild card in Arum;s Top Rank promotional deck.
“He could be an opponent for Manny Pacquiao, that’s possible, but he also has a natural rematch against Miguel Cotto,” Arum said.
Arum revealed that Cotto, who fights Pacman Nov. 14, is still burning about how his trainer and uncle Evangelista Cotto and cutman Miguel Diaz neglected to carefully watch Margarito getting his hands wrapped before their bout in Las Vegas.
Cotto later fired both his uncle and Diaz and is now trained by the less experienced Jose Santiago.
“Miguel has every right to be mad and to fire them,” Arum said. “They didn’t do what they were supposed to do.”
Arum, fresh from visiting the Pacman training camp in Baguio, will visit the Cotto camp in Tampa Tuesday and Wednesday.
Antonio Margarito, caught cheating with his loaded handwraps before he fought and lost to Sugar Shane Mosley Jan. 24 in Los Angeles, is not doing any California dreaming.
Accroding to his promoter, Bob Arum, the Tijuana Tornado will be able to return to the ring in virtually any other state come February.
The way Arum tells it, the one-year California commission expires in January 2010 and Margarito has no plans to go hat in hand before that board seeking to be relicensed.
“The ABC (Association of Boxing Commissions) has said he is free to apply for a license anywhere outside of California when the suspension ends,” Arum said Wednesday. “So that is what he will do.”
Margarito—or “Margocheato” as he’s become known—looms as a wild card in Arum;s Top Rank promotional deck.
“He could be an opponent for Manny Pacquiao, that’s possible, but he also has a natural rematch against Miguel Cotto,” Arum said.
Arum revealed that Cotto, who fights Pacman Nov. 14, is still burning about how his trainer and uncle Evangelista Cotto and cutman Miguel Diaz neglected to carefully watch Margarito getting his hands wrapped before their bout in Las Vegas.
Cotto later fired both his uncle and Diaz and is now trained by the less experienced Jose Santiago.
“Miguel has every right to be mad and to fire them,” Arum said. “They didn’t do what they were supposed to do.”
Arum, fresh from visiting the Pacman training camp in Baguio, will visit the Cotto camp in Tampa Tuesday and Wednesday.
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