That quote alone confirms that the pads were not designed to protect his hands, since Tony himself feels they could have easily broken his hands. It also tells us that the pads must have been hard.
Richardson claimed that the substance was "beginning to harden". Mosley's doctor claimed that is was "similar to what is used to make a cast". They began wrapping BEFORE Richardson arrived in the dressing room (illegal, unusual). The handwrap was wet. Just what type of handcream treatments could Margarito be having that would make a handwrap WET before he gets taped up? None. The first explanation - "the pad had been prepared a week earlier and a wet cloth had caused it to harden"? Firstly, what the ****, secondly, there you have it, straight from Espinoza's mouth, the wrap was "hardening", apparently by mistake something that nobody has repeated since, to my knoweldge. Come. On.
I read somewhere that when Margo stepped up to world class level, his KO ratio actually improved. Weird that.
DelaHoya used a "CAST" for his thumb and then wraped around his hand. Roach made him take it off before the PAC fight. Since Delahoya is DLH it was ok i guess. Margo gave Cotto and Cintron a beat down fair and square/
Cintron said " NoBody Hits that hard " when asked about the Margarito fight. Then Marinez put him on his ass and he said the same thing.
Margarito fans will believe any source that suggests Margarito was unaware of foul play. Those who don't like him won't read anything but instead just say, "Plaster fists to jail". Others don't seem care enough to make an emphatic statement either way.
How anyone can remain undecided with indesputable evidence like this floating around... This content is protected ...is beyond me.
'I didn't do anything' and 'the thing that I just said I didn't do was actually my trainers fault' are not exactly complimentary arguments. Shouldn't a boxer be reponsible for what goes into their gloves in the same way that most athletic sports hold athletes strictly liable for what goes into their bodies, knowingly or unknowingly?
Not neccesarily. Regardless, if Margo didn't know that anything wrong was being done with his wraps, then that would mean that he had no intent to break the rules. Now the courts in this sitiuation ruled that Margartio had no knowledge of what was taking place and took away his liscense regardless. However, anyone who knows anything about the law knows that intent is very important in terms of guilt, innocence, and degree of punishment. You could kill somene and depending on your intent, you could get no jail time, a few years in jail, or life in prison.