Current Margarito fights at a higher weight class than prime De la Hoya, first of all...:huh It's weird that you're all acting like DLH's prime stretches out to his time at LMW. It doesn't. Anyway, if you shrunk Margarito down to 135/140/147 DLH smears the ceiling with fragments of Margarito's skull.
No chin can take that left hook forever. Margo can not KO him and obviously can not out box him. Oscar by TKO
Margo bounces between 147-154. He has had 1 fight since his beat down from mosley, is there any reason to believe at this point that he is any better than Vargas? Vargas was a natural 154, bigger than margo. DLH had an easy night with him. DLH had an easy night with margo, DLH is simply the better fighter than Margo and with a solid chin. DLH has lost but its always been to fighters that were more skilled than margo.
You're not wrong. DLH would beat him even at 154. My only problem was that the title asked for "Current Margarito (a light middleweight for the last two years) vs. prime DLH (whose primed ended at welterweight)".