If Margarito is found guilty........

it will be relegated to the bottom of the ESPN ticker just like regular boxing has been today.

Someone cheating in sports? Lord forbid...

 

Its less important than A-Rod using steroids.....at least for ESPN people

 

People don't hate Baseball because of the recent Steroid scandals, and this won't have any real impact on Boxing either.

 

no more detrimental than what is going on in MLB right now.

 

agreed plus margarito isnt really a crossover star. If Floyd or Pac got caught with this it'd be something else. Everyone who would care already knows.


for once boxing's diminished stature actually helps it.

 

Why would they put something foreign to the boxing rules in their gloves - I mean how incredibly stupid!! This is inexcusable, especially as he is a elite fighter with the worlds eye on him - why would anyone do something that is so dangerous to their career - and more so on that stage of everyone looking directly at your direction.

 

Exactly, that's the way I look at it.

 

Boxing isn't diminished, it's still the 3rd worldwide and 3rd in the U.S. Just because ESPN doesn't talk about doesn't mean it isn't popular.

 

I dont think it will hurt boxing per say, but margo and his team can shelf there careers. Sprots always bounce back from things like this. This is an individual that did something bad, not the sport itself

 

it would hurt boxing in a big way, but it would end his carreer. He would have to retire, actually he would be banned. I think if he is found not guilty, it should be put past him, and hire a second trainer, Javier Capitillo is a great conditioning coach, but not a great trainer per say. Antonio needs to learn how to box and defend himself better head movement. He will never be a slick boxer, but his defense can improve. He just needs a better trainer

 

[quote="LA Earthquake";3405849]Boxing isn't diminished, it's still the 3rd worldwide and 3rd in the U.S. Just because ESPN doesn't talk about doesn't mean it isn't popular.[/quote]

3rd in the US by what measure? I'd like to see this argument. I can't think of a way boxing could possibly be more than the 7th most popular sport in the US (behind, at least, football, baseball, basketball, NASCAR, golf and tennis) and it's probably closer to 10th or so.

 

I think that may have been a great thing for boxing...I truely believe that Margo is going to get a boxing death sentence come the 10th...But A-rod just took the light off boxing...:good

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