Revisiting Margarito's hand wraps I am very curious about smth

[Da Boxer]

lol set up for what? To be Mosley's *****? lol

Great post. Just to add:




**Antonio Margarito: Guilty in a court of law
http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/about_us/...818_agenda.pdf

[Vasyl’s dad]

Scientific studies say it was 2% plaster, studies also say plaster doesn't belong in your wraps.

no dummy. the results said it contained "elements of". Meaning, when you post here, you do so as the element of a person, reason being is that you're missing the most critical part to make someone, the brain.


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[Kris Silver]

Why would any plaster be in a hand wrap?

Why was it an old hand wrap re-used?

Sorry, I really read into it at the time and I'm totally convinced something was up, all the factors added up it's shady as hell. And Margarito saying if there was anything he knew nothing. Get lost, you know when your wraps are the same again, don't look and feel normal etc. These are things he's had on his hands hundreds upon hundreds of times. For me it was, even if you do totally prove it, I didn't know anything. BS.

[SCtrojansbaby]

He cheated and was caught. They wouldn't have suspended him a year if there was any doubt. When someone suddenly starts having success and gets caught cheating we have to assume they have been doing it the whole time they found success. When they are caught and no longer are successful like Margarito was it seems obvious.

He got caught attempting to cheat anyone who actually thinks he was able to smuggle illegal wraps in the ring and use them in a sanctioned fight in the United States is ****** beyond belief

[Dr Rumack]

There was a study done on it by a boxing magazine in the 1960s to address the myth of Jack Dempsey having used plaster in his wraps for the Jess Willard beatdown.

The conclusion was that if anyone was dumb enough to use plaster of paris in their hand wraps or gloves, all they would do is break every bone in their own hands.

There was no 'plaster' with Margarito. What he had were pads of gauze which gave some slightly improved protection to his own knuckles. He shouldn't have had them, but ultimately it's nowhere near as villainous as the popular legend suggests.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Cotto wouldn't be fighting right now if Margarito had plaster. Dude had the wrong gameplan. His fans, especially ones all into the flag, have that image that he did in the first fight as a band aid to their hurt egos/hearts.

[Jack Napier]

no need for this over analysis
it was pointless 5 yrs ago and it still is
Tony didn't do anything illegal, he just kicked Cotto's ass
shitstorm from the Mosley fight gave Cotto buttboys an excuse
they've milked it all they can, but it's all moot
Tony>>>>>>Cotto, and he proved it
0 proof of Tony being shady in that fight

[Interloper]

Are you guys serious? Luis Resto used plaster against Billy Collins and didn't break a single bone in his own hand. Good grief.

[Dr Rumack]

There was a study done on it by a boxing magazine in the 1960s to address the myth of Jack Dempsey having used plaster in his wraps for the Jess Willard beatdown.

The conclusion was that if anyone was dumb enough to use plaster of paris in their hand wraps or gloves, all they would do is break every bone in their own hands.

The article in question

Boxing Illustrated conducted an experiment to test whether it was possible to use plaster of paris successfully under fighting conditions. The results were reported in the May 1964 issue of BI, pp 20-24, 66. Hugh Benbow and Perry Payne (manager and trainer of Cleveland Williams) used plaster of paris on Cleveland's hands and reenacted what Kearns said occurred in Dempsey's dressing room. After 35 minutes of toasting to reenact the 114-degree heat of Toledo that day, Cleveland Williams hit the heavy bag five times. Benbow examined the wraps and found that the plaster had cracked and crumbled. "This stuff." said Cleve, "wouldn't do anybody any good."

The Boxing Illustrated test proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the plaster of paris would not have held up after the first punch, it would have crumbled and left chunks in his mitts and every punch thereafter would have been quite painful and there is little doubt he would have broken his hands. The inventor of the product issued a statement as to the impossibility of using plaster of paris without breaking all the bones in the hands.

http://coxscorner.tripod.com/dempsey_gloves.html

[Da Boxer]

THE ACTUAL REPORT: Antonio Margarito: Guilty in a court of law
http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/about_us/...818_agenda.pdf