Aztecas on a different thread talking about Pacquiao's wraps, I believe is is going overboard to discredit Pacquiao's victory....... I'm not here to do that, but I do want to point out that Freddie Roach thinks that how Pacquiao wrapped his hands vs Margarito is illegal. How ironic that Roach protested to the commision when DLH wrapped his hands exactly the same way, and he was concerned that the ridges that stick out when you roll up the tape and gauze inbetween the fingers could cut his fighter. ....again, Roach is Nostradomus, a straight left right at Margarito's eye socket, cut him right up..... Let me make it clear before any of you *******s starts to ***** that its sour grapes.......:nonoI dont believe one way or the other that Pacquiao's handwraps made the difference in the fight. I'm just here to point at Freddie Roach's hypocrisy, and to say that he purposely allowed and likely instructed Pacquiao to wrap this hands exactly the way DLH did that night vs Pac..... ......the only difference is that when Roach complained to the commision about the ridges on DLH's knuckles, the inspector instructed DLH to make the roll of gauze/tape less thicker inbetween the fingers. Now, Sergio Garcia when he went to feel Pacquiao's handwrap at the knuckles, protested.....its on videotape, Garcia said, "when I was wrapping Margarito, the inspector told me there should not be any ridges on the fist area."...."I'm feeling Pacquiao's wraps and you can clearly feel the ridges popping out of Pacquiao's knuckles." Now that to me is a valid concern. The overseeing commision inspector did not allow for Pacquiao to rewrap his hand because unbelievably, (as if they still have'nt learned from the Margarito case with Mosley) they had already signed off in front of a Margarito camp representative who OK'd it. I however find it ridiculous that the commision would ignore something like ridges sticking out on the top of your knuckle area, when in the other room the inpector there had told Garcia that the top of Margarito's fist area should be flat with no ridges. In this case you have two different inspectors instructing the camps two different ways, one telling Margarito and Garcia, "No ridges are allowed".....and on the Pac side, the inspector being OK with the ridges. My beef to the commision, get it right and have the inspectors rule unilaterally with the same rules on both sides.atsch Again, imo the wraps likely did not have a real bearing on the fight, but Roach is a hypocrite who purposely cheated and let his fighter wrap his hands in a way that was according to his own opinion "Illegal" "the ridges can cut a fighter." No doubt that Freddie Roach is a cheating *******! Here's the link to Roach's hypocrisy........ [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqKhFFlxHY[/ame] Guys, discuss this rationally without name calling. I personally think the commsion could have handled it better, and if there were ridges sticking out of Pacquiao's wrapped fist, he should have been made to re-wrap irregardless of the representative from Margarito's camp not having initially protested. Thats just the thing here......both fighters were wrapping their hands at the same time, but because Garcia was wrapping Margarito's hands, he was'nt present when Pacquiao wrapped his own. Garcia had a valid concern because he brought to the table what the inspector who inspected him had said......"no ridges on the fist area."
If Roach did do anything wrong, there would be more than a few idiotic internet trolls talking about it.
It's not cheating. He just said that the commission agreed to go with the rolled tape between the knuckles, half an inch. If he complained to the commission and they let it happen, you still think it's cheating? That would mean that Oscar was cheating and had loaded wraps when Pac destroyed him.