More cowardly move? Cotto knee or Canelo vacate?

Canelo wins this....
Cotto did get in ring but got his ass handed to him by a FIGHTER!!!!! So he QUIT !!!
Canelo did a Floyd with Margarito LOL He pooped his drawers & handed back the belt to his Master Gennady Golovkin LOL

 

All Margarito ever did was beat up jr welterweights, load his gloves and beat
Cintron and Cotto. God saw fit to punish him and every time he looks in the mirror he will realize that it wasn't worth it trying to cheat.

 

If he had more guts than Floyd and Shane, he wouldn't have gotten ktfo lol...

 

If Marg - Mosely had been a fair fight you'd have a repeat of the Cotto beat down
Mayweather would NEVER have the balls to fight Marg. Hell he pooped his pants when Tony walked up to him smiling To ask him why he wouldn't fight him LOL

 

Margarito got ktfo by men Floyd easily beat. Stfu and live with the fact that Margarito wasn't;'t greats won't get into the HOF, and is branded a scumbag cheat *****.

 

Speaking of Margarito's gloves:

Ward fans will castrate Margarito for using illegal wrapping but will excuse Ward's illegal fighting as "veteran moves".

Double standard at its pinnacle.

 

He equated rough house tactics with plaster use, lmao...

 

Posting a thread about top level professional boxers being cowards is infinitely more cowardly than whatever you could be discussing (with the exception of loaded gloves, fixed fights, etc.).

 

Time to end this silliness.....
Tony Margarito NEVER EVER loaded or tried to load his gloves. He didn't need to all your heroes were scared stiff to get in the ring with him. They knew a good ass kicking was coming if they did. So a plan was devised to get rid of him. They already knew he had been sick & was weight drained. So they let that POS start the "PLASTER BLOCKS" BS lies. Then they turned a juiced to the gills AGAIN !! Mosely on him. He never had a chance. He was railroaded. Bleat all you want . call him all the names you want. BUT!! You all know in your hearts your heroes were not man enough to meet him in a FAIR FIGHT!! Support your second raters I'll always support my friend !!! Antonio The Tijuana Tornado Margarito !!!!!!!!!

 

Javier Capetillo is on record disproving this.

 

Please show proof of this with a link maybe ?? C'mon back it up

 

Since having his license revoked by the California State Athletic Commission in February of 2009, Margarito has claimed no knowledge of the illegal hand wrappings in his gloves that led to his being exiled from fighting until August, when Texas licensed him to face Pacquiao.

Margarito has blamed Capetillo, claiming that the trainer acted on his own.

Capetillo told Fischer that Margarito is telling the truth.

"I made a mistake. I wasn't trying to hide anything. I just screwed up, and I did it in front of Mosley's trainer and the commissioners. I was just under a lot of pressure because I knew we shouldn't have taken the fight," said Capetillo, adding that dramatic weight loss drained Margarito, and led to his loading the gloves.

"I knew Tony was in trouble and I knew that I had put him in that position. I wrapped Tony's hands four times in front of Mosley's trainer and the commissioners and two representatives from Golden Boy Promotions after they found the gauze. I admitted then that I made a mistake."

 

"They think Tony cheated to beat Kermit Cintron? Give me a break. All you have to do is mad dog and rush Cintron, and he gets scared. Tony beat him by being Tony," said Capetillo. "He beat Miguel Cotto because he has the style to beat Cotto. He'll wear Cotto down and stop him every time they fight."

But against Mosley, the story is different, said Capetillo.

"[Margarito's] weight was a problem for that entire camp. He put on a lot of weight, not just water pounds but muscle, after he beat Cotto. He had to chop 20 pounds before he left Mexico to begin his camp for Mosley, and then he dropped another 30 in camp. He kept dropping weight and dropping weight until he had nothing," said Capetillo, adding that Margarito also had back problems that caused him to miss crucial training days.

"Then he would gain back whatever weight he lost the previous week. He was 16 pounds over [the welterweight limit] one week before the fight, and the closer we got to the weight, the sicker he got from dehydration," said Capetillo. "Four or five days out from the fight it was like he had the flu. He was shrinking before our eyes."

Capetillo's concern, he said, led to his sudden decision to go with the illegal wraps, a move that he said was not planned far ahead of time.

 

Margarito is a disgrace but Cotto got that sweet revenge and everybody got to enjoy Sugar Shane beat the ever living sht out of him followed by Pacquaio turning that villainous mug of his to a halloween mask. Who doesn't like a story with a happy ending?

 

by: Kevin Mitchell

Brendan Ingle said once that a trainer has a dangerous amount of power over fighters in his care. He is, he said, part doctor, part psychologist, looking out for the physical and moral welfare of the boxer – and that duty of care extends beyond his immediate remit.

Which is why Javier Capetillo is a lucky man for copping a mere 12-month suspension – the same as his charge received – for loading the gloves of Antonio Margarito before he fought Shane Mosley in Los Angeles two weekends ago.

Freddie Roach agrees – and he claims to know a thing or two about such things. Amir Khan's trainer made the sensational claim in an interview with Brian Kenny on ESPN radio last week that Marco Antonio Barrera (Khan's opponent in Manchester next month) had illegal wraps on his hands before he fought Manny Pacquiao, another of his fighters, in 2003. Roach says he spotted the cast-like wraps when he inspected Barrera's gloves. "The commissioner came over, and they threw it away." Barrera, who studied law years ago, will note the allegations with interest.

Roach, not a man prone to wild statements, also alleges that Margarito broke the orbital bone of another of his fighters in sparring, and was told Margarito used special wraps "to protect his hands".

The most infamous case of glove tampering in recent times occurred in New York in 1983, when Carlos Panama Lewis took an ounce of padding out of the gloves of Luis Resto, who went on to batter the unbeaten favourite, Billy Ray Collins. Collins was temporarily blinded and never boxed again. A year later he died in a car crash. Lewis and Resto were later banned from boxing for life and sent to prison for two and a half years.

Capetillo, who admitted his culpability, at the very least should never be allowed near a gym again. He is not only a disgrace to boxing (not that difficult a crime to commit, it has to be said), but he could have sent Margarito into the ring with two weapons every bit as deadly as those of Luis Resto.

Margarito is not blameless, of course, and his claim that he just held his hands up to be wrapped by Capetillo, unaware that he had inserted grout-like substances across his knuckles, will go down as one of boxing's most risible excuses, one that the California State Athletic Commission dismissed in handing down their judgment. Margarito's one-year ban applies throughout the United States but it was disturbing to hear that his promoter, Bob Arum, might try to get him work in Mexico – where the California-born fighter now lives – instead.

The Harvard-educated Arum, a man who knows how to work a court room, exploded indignantly after the hearing: "To take a kid who's done nothing wrong and revoke his licence for a year – are you crazy?"

It's Arum who's crazy – like a fox. Of course Margarito knew what Capetillo was doing – unless he's never seen grout in his life, or, worse, this is how his trainer wraps his hands every time he fights. And you have to wonder if that has been the case. Had Margarito, a punishing hitter, not been found out before the fight by Mosley's alert trainer, Nazim Richardson, he could have put his opponent in hospital, or worse.

The hardened plaster found across the knuckle parts of the gauze wrapping Capetillo put on both of Margarito's hands would have turned them into rocks. It is hardly mitigating evidence that they were discovered and that Mosley subsequently gave Margarito the worst beating of his career.

These were the same fists, allegedly clean, that made such a mess of the Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto in his previous fight, in Las Vegas last July. The Nevada State Athletic Commission protested it would have been impossible for such a crime to go undetected in their jurisdiction, so rigorous are their pre-fight inspections.

How reassuring. But forgive me for remaining cynical.