I am of the opinion that Antonio Margarito should be banned for life for his inexcusable crime. I'd like to hear from the other boxing fans on this site. What do you think?
Yes Luis Resto got banned for life practically for the same thing, and Margo only gets a year? Something isnt right and its not Luis Resto's punishment.
yes someone who loads his gloves should be banned for life, its bad for boxing,cheating and you can kill someone because of it. So yes ban him for life, i hope he doesnt get any big fights from now on. And i actually like the guy before the plasterthing happened.
as he wasnt caught doing it in any fight and it wasnt conclusively proven what the substance was I guess he has to get a second chance. I mean as part of the punishment Mosley gave him a kicking
No. Roy Jones wasn't banned for live for anabolic steroids, Toney neither, Mosley neither for EPO, these substances make you stronger/faster/fitter/more energetic etc, able to inflict more damage on your opponent, which is pretty much the same loaded loves do. But where are the ban Roy/Toney/Shane threads? Oh, so you like Roy and Toney and Shane? But here's the difference: Margarito never was proved fighting dirty, neither was Pacquiao, Floyd or John Boxer. Tony's hands were rewrapped before the Mosley fight and there's no evidence of him doing anything dirty in previous fights, all you bitches can do is ACCUSE him and get a fat lawsuit in return. Like the lawsuit Dan Rafael deserves for calling Margarito "Margacheato" every time in his public chat, Top Rank or Margarito lawyers could easily file a deflamation lawsuit against Rafael and ESPN, and win it quite easily. And to be honest, what was described as a soft, humid extra gauze, it's nothing a boxer would or should notice during that 15 minute hand wrapping as it takes a lot of time and material finish a proper one. It's not like injecting something in your body and stating later "oh I didn't know it was EPO". Now not knowing but still cheating wouldn't change Margarito's responsibility if he was caught fighting with loaded gloves, but he never was.
Probably not banned for life but he definitely needs to be suspended longer than just 1 year, for goodness sakes he's going to be back in action faster than Shane! ridiculous, I say I say he shouldn't be able to compete in America for at least another year or 2
Who was the fighter that was sent to jail for assault after fighting with the padding removed from his glove?
I respectfully disagree with you. What if he hadn't been caught until after the fight was over? Should he be banned then? I think fighters should be suspended for using performance enhancing drugs and any fight that they win on them, should be taken away. I can see a suspension for p.e.d.'s, but plaster? If I am on p.e.d.s and I hit you, yes it's true that I may be stronger and faster, but being hit with a glove with plaster underneath is more dangerous. This is a dangerous sport and all forms of cheating should be punished. Removing padding from the gloves like Luis Resto or plaster like Margarito and Resto should be banned! We don't know just how long Margarito had been doing that.