Margarito's guilt????

I would'nt lie....

I'm 100% positive and I've heard it several times in different articles........One of Margarito's hands had already been wrapped and signed off by the inspector.

Richardson had given the inspector alot of heat while wrapping that first handwrap.........in fact, Capetillo's defense was that he inadvertantly put the wrong knucklepads in place because he was already perturbed and not thinking straight with Richardson dictating to the inspector how much guaze and tape Capetillo was using from the moment he started wrapping Margarito's hands.

Richardson was in there dictating everything, knowing him, probably just trying to get the Margarito and his whole camp perturbed.
The inspector actually testified to this.

I've always been baffled and it does'nt make any sense to me why Capetillo would take the illegal pads out already knowing that Richardson was complaining from the very start how he was laying the tape and gauze on Margarito's hand.

Surely anyone with any sense would have thought, "I'm not going to take out the hard pads, because this bafoon is going to see them unwrapped before I insert them?"

Capetillo claimed that he lost sense of what he was doing because Richardson was being so demanding for every little thing he did with Margarito's wraps.

In any regards, the knucklepad was placed on the first hand and it was signed off by the inspector once Capetillo finished putting more guaze over it.

When Capetiilo was in the process of wrapping the second hand, its when he asked the inspector he wanted to feel the knucklepad.
Richardson felt it, and told the inspector it did'nt feel right to him, it was too hard.
.....some back and forth ensued over the situation, and then Richardson asked that the first hand be unwrapped to check on the knucklepad, which he had not felt when they inserted it.
The inspector at first said no, that he already signed off on it......
Then Richardson told him, "Would you rather me confiscate it after the fight and find it hard?"

.......to which the inspector told him, "you're right."
....the inspector then asked for Margarito hand to be unwrapped, to the objection of Capetillo, but Margarito told him to calm down and outright stuck his hand out for it to be unwrapped.


Thats the account I've read many times in different articles, fresh off the incident happening.

 

Another misconception on the knucklepads is that it was smeared with the plaster substance but were not yet hard like plaster......I've heard alot of people say including BHS on this very page that they would' have hardened like plaster during the course of the fight.....

The knucklepads in question were used knucklepads, they had already been stained from use.....so they were already as hard as they were going to get. They were used.


.......and BHS, even if tCapetillo had inserted new knucklepads with the powdery plaster substance that would later harden.......that does'nt necessarily mean that Margarito would have felt the heat from the chemical reaction of the hardening once they became wet........remember now that the knucklepad in question was only a piece of wrapped up gauze placed on top of Margartos knuckle area, which already contained tape and gauze.

Capetillo is essentially placing that knucklepad not on the bare skin, but on top of gauze and tape thats already all over Margarito's hand.

We are talking about a small piece of rolled up gauze thats in question of being plastered, not Margarito's whole handwraps as you would see them when they pull his gloves out.


Some people really think that Margarito's whole handwrap was plastered!:nut