Just curious...How long you think margarito was "cheating"? One time thing?

[Shadow boxer 3]

Well maybe he wanted to make a bigger name for himself by KOing the iron chinned Mosley?

didnt know mosley had an iron chin. and vernon forrest didnt need plaster to drop him

[handwraps]

many people thought margarito was gonna destroy mosley. That due to that fact of his not so great performance against mayorga. marg still used them or attempted to. You honestly think he didnt against cotto in his biggest and first mega fight. And, against others before him. Him also stating he didnt know is insulting. his trainner and he have a father and son relationship so im sure hes a liar. but like people have said hes guilty of using before the mosley fight by public opinion, and us assuming he did. we cant prove it but the odds are not in his favor that he didnt.

[MidnightSpecial]

my guess he has done it for a while. Im guessing hiding plaster hands from inspectors is a honed skill. Remember it was Mosley's trainer who discovered it. Not the person inspecting the wrapping procedure.

[mathed]

I personally believe that he had been cheating for years but that is only my opinion and I realize that it is a touchy subject. As others have stated, why start cheating against an older guy that you are the favorite to beat? The image I saw of the wraps had what appeared to be a blood stain on them but it could have been anything.

[Iceta]

This **** is getting so lame. Drop it already.

[Check]

Well, there is no proof obviously that he cheated more than once, but you have to assume that he did. If you are coming off the biggest victory of your life and then fighting a guy that looked so bad against Ricardo Mayorga, and you cheat in that fight, it only makes you assume he did it against Cotto. In the Cotto fight, Margarito was fighting by far his toughest opponent(sorry pwill fans), a guy that was undefeated, a guy in his prime, and he was a clear underdog to. If you are going to cheat against old man Shane why would you not cheat against a prime Cotto? Not to mention you just beat the guy that beat Shane. It doesn't make any sense to say that he probably did not cheat against Miguel.

[Young Mike]

when naseem richardson saw the plaster he said it had dried up blood on it like it had been used before. so i dont think it was a one time thing

In the Cotto fight he had blood on both handwraps, but yet he still didn't take them off. Remember that if your knuckles hurt the first thing you want to do is take the pressure off by immediately taking off the handwraps, but even when someone came up to him he said it was o.k and left them on.

No blood on this one or any other recent fights his been before the Cotto fight.



But check out the pic from the Cotto fight and he's guilty.
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[Beater_of_ass]

A lot of his preceding fights were also his biggest fights at that time of his career, so we should assume he used it in those fights too shouldn't we?

Yes, however, there was a lot more riding on the Cotto fight than anything prior. Or even the second Cintron fight, if he won that fight he got his shot at Cotto, if he beat Cotto he lines up a shot with DLH or even Mayweather, then in his very next fight...



Which coincidentally, fits perfectly with the following picture. As you can also tell, the fact that the blood stain was bigger on the outside and slowly shrunk in size lets you know the blood came from outside the wrap. The only person bleeding in that fight with Cotto. Yes, it doesn't 100% prove he used against Cotto, but there is also just enough to make it look that he very well did.

[Check]

This **** is getting so lame. Drop it already.

Why will anyone drop it? The guy may of possibly cheated many guys like Martinez, Cotto, or Cintron of their only losses on their resumes. Who knows how great these guys could of been if they fought Margarito without illegal wraps. Using wraps is illegal and really can ruin a fighters career. You need to drop your support for fighters that cheat and stop being a nationalistic idiot. Margarito should be banned for life and all wins taken away.

[jrosales13]

Margo's power was decieving...it was either there or it wasn't at all. He had a fight where he ripped the other guy's ear off. Then he had a fight with Clottey where he broke the record of punches thrown yet his power wasn't effective at all. Heck Clottey even said Cotto hits harder. Then comes Williams and beats him, again with Margos punches being inneffective. Then he steamrolls thru some dude in one round, destoys Cintron again and Batters Cotto, speacially in the later rounds, leaving cotto's complete head swollen. And then the Mosley fight. I can't really say which fights were the wraps used. But I am certain that he started using them after the Williams bout. This is my personnal opinion

So he KO'd Andrew Lewis quicker than Mayorga did. And, Mayorga was a power puncher. He was the only one who has dropped Sergio Martinez. And, he ripped Sebastian Lujan ear off without plaster. Right? That is what you saying?