Did Margarito ruin Cotto's career through cheating?

Is it banned and if it naturally occurs within the body why's Shane injecting it?
I'm not arguing I geniuinely don't know and I like Mosley

 

It's to do with red cell production. Have a little read on wikipedia, it's quite interesting.

 

Obviously we will never know whether margarito used illegal hand wraps in the cotto fight. Cotto was hit harder and more often by torres and did not receive cuts. As for the cintron fight, agreed that was a beautiful shot that put him down but it was after margarito consistently worked him over.

Cmon now how can you compare amir khan who is fragile to someone who is proven on a world level like cotto.

 

Yes it was interesting especially this

Tests in Australia have shown that improvements in an athlete's performance over four weeks would match those expected over several years.

Thats some serious enhancement !!

 

I think Margo had the style to beat Cotto no matter what wraps he used, Cottos a good fighter but not the great one that some people claim and he's never liked fightiing under pressure. In any case to say his career has been wrecked by Margo before he's even fought again after that fight is a massive stretch, we don't how much that fight has taken out of Cotto OR how much it still would have taken out of him even without the dodgy wraps.

Thats not to say Margo shouldn't be investigated and punished for breaching the rules, I just think he's have given Cotto a steady, sustained beating that night no matter what was under his gloves.

 

maybe so Gaz

but be fair having some cement wrapped on your hands is gonna make a bit of difference

 

That was my first post in the thread and I was just answering the original question....;O)

 

I agree.

He didn't have plaster on his chin and Cotto could not discourage him no matter what he landed.

I find it hard to believe that Margarito could get away with this fight after fight; I'm personally more inclined to think something was up with Margarito before this fight and he got desperate. His punch resistance wasn't there, he weighed in under, the whole thing seems fishy to me.

Mosley himself said he thinks Margarito was trying to protect his hands if anything, but maybe Shane is just being a sport.

All in all I'm waiting to see what comes of this before passing judgement.

Be a really sad day if it transpires he was out and out cheating like this. Totally not on.

 

Check out this clip of the end of the Cotto-Margarito fight. At 8 minutes into the clip Margo is walking around the ring with his gloves off, with his wraps in full view, a matter of minutes after the knockout. They are either not doctored or he is unaware of the doctoring (or he's very stupid).

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I think his punch resistance may have declined..... hardly surprising considering his last two fights where he basically fought with his chin and broke the opponent, both of whom had stopped guys with a lot less.

That said, if Cotto had taken the shots that Margo did against Shane, he would still be in hospital.

I will reserve judgement for now. Unless the wraps were off white in colour, plaster of paris would be so easy to spot they wouldn't bother trying.

 

**** me!! margo is getting tarred and feathered over on the GF. He hasn't even been found guilty of tampering of one set of wraps and theres talk of Clottey having broken his hand on Margos guard!!!!

 

A shifty looking ****er eh? Thats good enough for me...:good

 

His haircut almost guarantees that he is a cheat.

 

He smells like a cheat....