His career is not tarnished forever. The wraps was just a misunderstanding from his father, who admitted he should've check the rules in NY. Different places have different rules on wrapping techniques. It was a good move from the Hopkins camp mentally and was part to unfocus Trinidad and the team. Which it work. If those wraps were that much of an issue, why did Trinidad or his pops never got suspended. People need to do more research:good
Exactly, the way Trinidad Sr. wrapped them were legal in other boxing commissions, illegal when fighting Hopkins though. However, you got ***gots like UliUli throwing the race card saying that the wraps were only legal in Puerto Rico because his boy got caught cheating and Uli STILL won't admit - in his eyes Margarito is innocent
Trinidad's legacy was not built on hype, it was built on his destroying the majority at 147lb, defeating peak Oscar De La Hoya by close decision, and then moving up to 154 and 160, continuing to knock people out. It sent chills down my spine when I saw him do what he did to Joppy. Here was a fully fledged Welterweight moving up two weight divisions and decapitating a good fighter in William Joppy. No wonder he was favorite to beat Bernard. Tito is not a great Middleweight, and let's not even mention the horrowshow against Jones Jr, but as a 147lb he kicks all kinds of ass.
First of all Margarito was never my boy. Secondly, I'll be the first to blast him, I just want to know what he used to supposedly load his gloves. There is no clear proof of anything.
Pacquiao - UD Trinidad at any weight is horribly overrated. His best win is over an even more overrated fighter in Vargas. Pacquiao is a real champion, not just on paper like Trinidad was. Plus, Manny has heart unlike Tito. He'd grind out a decision win.
Agreed. I never liked Margo from the beginning, but for everyone to assume his gloves were loaded for all of his previous fights is ridiculous. Back to the question in the thread... Pac at 147 isn't going to be easy for Tito, although I think Tito wins. Some of these fans can't wait to put Tito in fantasy matchups with some of today's fighters. But you same ***gots were silent as hell when someone mentioned Tito vs. Hearns, Leonard, or Hagler... What happened?
with the plaster of course pac by homicide :yep:good tito is an overhyped machine who defeated a runaway oscar at the latter rounds and a bojado type vargas. LOL
I understand what the thread starter is doing. Pac gets SO MUCH credit for beating DLH at 147, but betaing him at 147 doesn't ptove anything. Infact beating that version of DLH at any weight would not prove anything as DLH is completely shot. So when you pair him up against a true 147 primed fighter, you'll see Pac has absoloutely no chance. IMO Pac beating DLH is equivelant to Wayne Martell beating Meldrick Taylor.