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“This is a guy who is not the type of person everyone thinks he is,” Garcia said of Margarito. “I didn’t know him, but I’ve found him to be a very honest, very classy, very respectful man.”
Garcia and Margarito spent a long day talking, about boxing, about life, about each other. And Garcia was surprised that he found a much different man than he expected, a more thoughtful, introspective man than he’d imagined.
He quickly had a good feeling about Margarito the man.
“I felt he was a good person, and an honest person,” Garcia said. “And he talked to me about what happened [with the hand wraps] and I believed him.”
Garcia had been under the impression that the entire hand wraps were soaked in plaster of Paris. In that scenario, it would have been impossible for anyone not to know what had been done. But what Capetillo inserted was a small object made of gauze covered in the plaster of Paris-type substance.
“I really believe that he didn’t know and as I have gotten to know him better, I believe that even more,” Garcia said. “This is a good man. I have a lot of amateur kids who train at the gym and he is so great with them. When he’s done working, he doesn’t leave. He stays and helps them. They’re traveling to the national PALs (Police Athletic League tournament) and Margarito said he would pay for it, all of the expenses.
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