ESPN : Top Rank concerned about Margarito not being licensed. Cotto-Martirosyan?

Arum ready to feed Cotto to Vanes already? :O...He must be ready.

 

Arum's arrogance and audacity is utterly disturbing.

 

Don't worry guys. Arum is going to make sure this **** goes down. He will even bribe some folks to make sure. Margarito is going to whip that ass too.

 

:deal

 

In Vegas they give you a bag of wraps and that is the only thing allowed on the hands. No pulling **** from your bags. Not impossible, but much more unlikely that there were loaded wraps in Vegas.

 

does dr. shawhi have a license to practice in n y????

 

I see what you mean, but i think cotto wants to kill margo! You see the face of preview?! WARR

 

Yeah, let's completely forget cheating in a brutal deadly sport and move on to excite obese fans.

 

Interesting. :think

Has it ever come out whether Evangelista was present in the opposition dressing room during Antonio's wrapping that night? ...and if not, why not?

Anyway - even setting aside that Margarito just had his #, those types of dynamic can change over time. Case in point, many feel Marquez has two unofficial wins over Pacquiao but almost none of them give Marquez a chance of achieving much of anything but the moral victory of losing another decision tomorrow night due to the lessening of his abilities and the heightening of Pac's.

It could well be a case where Cotto has improved and Margarito slowed down to the point that it narrows the gap and turns the tables so that Cotto has taken back his own # and filched Tony's in the process. That would have been my hunch - that even allowing that he could have had his face mashed in without illegal wraps the first time, Cotto might simply be in a better position to win now.

It would be a shame to not ever find out.

 

Yeah. I'm pretty sure Cotto said they didn't check. They left that to the Nevada commission. Still you could always plan to distract the commission guy. It would only take a second if you were determined to do something. Drop a hundred dollar bill on the floor, whatever....

 

I read somewhere that the hearing is not until the 18th. WTF were they thinking??? I def didnt pay for ringside seats to watch Vanes die from a liver shot. Margarito's eye still being a concern at this point makes me think this fight might be easier than expected for Cotto tho...:think

 

Miguel said in an interview that since team margarito didnt send anyone to watch Miguel get wrapped, they decided to do the same. Thats just Miguel not wanting to talk about his uncle tho, because its also said that Evangelista not checking on margarito's wrapping is what caused the brawl and the split between the two. Not Cotto wanting to relocate his training camps to Florida.

 

- Or dropping ten grand into his bank account.

Everyone in this sport is on the take.

 

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"January 28, 2009 Kizer:

Margarito Was Clean vs. Cotto; Keith Kizer, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, told me "I'm as comfortable as I can be" Margarito's hand wraps and gloves weren't doctored against Miguel Cotto. By GEORGE WILLIS

Keith Kizer, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said on Wednesday he is "as comfortable as I can be" that Antonio Margarito's hand wraps and gloves weren't doctored during his July victory over Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Margarito's career-defining win over the previously unbeaten Cotto has come into question after two plaster-like pieces were found in Margarito's hand wraps before his bout with Shane Mosley Jan. 24 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The California State Athletic Commission has the two hardened pieces and announced late Wednesday the licenses and Maragarito and his trainer Javier Capetillo were temporarily suspended pending a hearing Feb. 10. A long-term suspension could jeopardize a potential rematch with Cotto this June in the Garden. Nevada will honor the suspensions while the investigation continues. "We're definitely going to listen to whatever California says when they finish their investigation," Kizer said. "We would hope it was all on the up and up and it was a misunderstanding. But I'm sure California will do a thorough job and let the fans and the media and everyone know what happened."

Kizer is sure everything was on the "up-and-up" in July when Margarito took the WBA welterweight title from Cotto with an 11th round TKO. Cotto dropped to a knee twice in the 11th beaten, battered and bloodied by a relentless two-fisted assault by Margarito. Cotto's face looked disfigured from the damage. Margarito not only won the title that night, but superstar status that resulted in a record crowd of nearly 21,000 fans at the Staples Center for the fight with Mosley. But word came just before the bout that Margarito's hands had to wrapped three times and HBO commentator Larry Merchant told viewers that "an illegal pad" was found in Margarito's wraps, "something that would harden when wet." Jim Lampley later referred to it as an "illegal implement," adding "inevitably, the question will arise, 'Did he have that in the hand wrap last July. Did it harden like plaster of Paris? Was it a factor in the fight." Kizer is confident the rules and procedures in Nevada prevent any irregularities during hand wrapping and putting on the gloves. "We have experienced inspectors not only watching the hands being wrapped, but also the gloves being put on," Kizer said. "They feel the wraps and sign them and then the gloves and sign them." One difference between Nevada and Calfornia is that Nevada provides the gauze for the hand wrappings, while California allows fighters to use their own gauze.

Speaking specifically about July, Kizer said, representatives from the Cotto camp were in Margarito's dressing room during the entire wrapping of the hands. "They were in there from the beginning," Kizer said. "Not only them but people from HBO, people from MGM, there are always a dozen or so people in the dressing room. "I'm pleased with the process we have in Nevada," Kizer said. "Not only does it stop anybody who tries to do something like that, it stops anybody who is thinking about doing it."

 

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