Should Garcia take the blame for the end of Margarito's career?

[D4thincarnation]

Antonio's Margarito's career hangs in the balance his much anticipated re-match with Miguel Cotto has been called off because the orbital bone that was broken in the fight with Manny Pacquiao has not healed properely and may never.

In the fight Pacquiao caught Margarito with several flush blows to the face, an almighty uppercut in round 4 is thought to be the punch that broke the bone, with Garcia and other ringside observers clamining they heard it break.

Come the 9th round Margarito's face was a mess, his eyes were closed over and he had lost every round, and now Pacquiao was hitting at will.

It should have been stopped then but Garcia and the ref let it continue, it got so bad in the 11th that Pacquiao started pulled his punches and looking at the ref to stop it. Pacquiao ease off but game Marg still came forward and had to take some half thrown punches.

After the fight Pacquiao said he didn't want to cause Margarito serious damage, but Garcia said he was never going to pull Margarito out of there because he is Mexican.

Now that seems wholly irresponsible to me, when your fighter is too brave you have to act in his best interests and protect your fighter from permanent injury or even worse.

Garcia is a good young trainer but he didn't do good by his fighter on that night and it probably has cost Margarito his career.

I hope Garcia has learned his lesson and does not allow any of his fighters to take unnecessary punishment ever again.

[ИATAS]

I like Garcia, I think he's a fine trainer and he'll likely win Trainer of the Year in 2011.

With that said, yes I believe he probably is.

The corner's main job is to protect their fighter. I don't care how much pride a guy has and how much he's a warrior or how much he says he wants to keep fighting, you have to know when to throw in the towel in order to protect them.

[mushahadeen]

he shuda threw in the towel.

[joseph5620]

I like Garcia, I think he's a fine trainer and he'll likely win Trainer of the Year in 2011.

With that said, yes I believe he probably is.

The corner's main job is to protect their fighter. I don't care how much pride a guy has and how much he's a warrior or how much he says he wants to keep fighting, you have to know when to throw in the towel in order to protect them.

I also like Garcia. But you are on point here.

[tibbar]

a true fighters job is to fight until he cannot do it anymore, he doesnt bother thinking about how painful the beatings hes dishing out to his opponent or what he is receiving as long as he is able to stand up and attack. its the corners job to watch out for the fighter if he has had enough which they should be ready to intervene in his behalf because true fighters are not conscious of the damages inflicted upon them and its long term effects thus garcia as the corners boss should take the blame for the wrong judgment.

[spyvsspy]

Yaaaaahhh! These threads make me so happppppy! I don't blame the trainer I blame karma. Dumb b1tch

[badass316]

Yes. There was absolutely no reason to continue that fight after the 10th round. As the trainer, it's your responsibility to take your fighter outta there when its clear his health might be compromised.