Trainer says Margarito had eye surgery, denies handwrap charges

[AztecWanker]

He landed his right flush on Arlovski's chin, but missed with the left because Arlovski was falling.

i know, it was a joke

[PlasticFlamingo]

Being "wrapped too high" wouldn't make the comission take them as evidence. I call BS on this!

[Chr0nic]

all you haters and people that dont know about boxing are really fast to call margarito a lier and cheater."what about shane and steroids on DLH match in 2000.if we gonna point fingers well point it to all. we can go all night long with this .what about DLH on the pacquiao match wasn't he caught as well.there was controversy on the hand wrapping of margo but i don't think it was that big of a deal.or else whos at fault for this is the california boxing commission for catching someone cheating and still letting him go on."dont u haters think ".what about tomorrow when we all wake up and learn that Mosley gave positive for steroids "AGAIN".It was a great match and i want to see the rematch .so all of u haters get a life and stop living trough this hard working warriors.

that was ages ago, there's no proof he's using it again, or has ever since that so stfu

[Motofan]

Trainer denies handwrap charges

According to Antonio Margarito's manager Sergio Diaz, Margarito had eye surgery just over a week before stepping into a boxing ring against Shane Mosley. Speaking after Maragarito's stoppage loss to Shane Mosley on Saturday night, Diaz was gracious and gave credit to Mosley for "fighting a hell of a fight and did not want to take anything away from the guy. It was not Tony's night and it definitely was Shane's." But Diaz went on to say that "Antonio had to have surgery on his eye a little over a week ago." When asked why couldn't it wait, Diaz said, "he had a problem with his eye and he had to have the surgery to fight. His retina could have become detatched if he fought without the surgery."

Diaz stressed again that he didn't want to take anything from Mosley. When asked about the growing controversy that Margarito was caught with an illegal hardening substance on his handwraps before the fight and was forced to put on clean wraps, Diaz said, "It got blown out of proportion. They checked Tony's hands. He had one hand wrapped and he was wrapping the other. They said his other hand was wrapped too high. Tony didn't want that to be an issue so he had me cut the wrap off his other hand and he wrapped them both to their satisfaction on the spot." When informed that some rumors had Margarito getting caught with plaster of paris or another foreign substance in his wraps, Diaz flatly denied it. "No. No way. They were just wrapped too high for their liking."

In the postfight press conference Mosley was asked what he knew about the controversy. Mosley said, "I was aware of it but I didn't let it bother me one way or another. I don't think that Margarito was trying to do something illegal. My trainer did his job and caught him and he had to wrap his hands the same way I wrapped mine. He probably wanted extra protection for his hands."

What else is he supposed to say? "Yeah...we got caught..our bad." Read every single other thread with a source form the people in the commision investigating it who say they did indeed find the illegal substance on the gloves when called in to inspect and kept it as evidence. For Marg's people to deny that any of that ever happened is laughable. Just keep digging guy.

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Typical, they never really lose. There's always an excuse. And if he had eye surgery one week before the fight, there wouldn't have been any fight. He wouldn't have had the med. clearance

[The Surgeon]

If its true about the hand wraps then i'll apologies as ive been harsh to Tony and his fans but i doubt that will be the case!

Sounds like Bollocks to me, Eye Surgery a WEEK before a huge title fight with a legend!? Please! Tony looks dumb but if this is true then he's even dumber than he looks! Its an excuse plain and simple but it wont matter what now, he's ****ed and will no longer be a threat to the divisions top lads!