Breaking down Margarito's " Plaster Myth "

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How likely is it that the trainer did it without Margarito knowing? You're doing something that could potentially end his career overnight and destroy his name, have him mentioned in the same breath as Resto etc. and you're not going to tell him?

Well that's the thing, there is plausible deniability there, but I think any rational mind would assume that Marg knew about it.

You just don't undertake something as serious as loading gloves without telling the fighter, in my opinion anyway.

Resto USED to say he had no idea until he was pressed and then he copped to even more shady dealings.

Margarito is a cheater and a liar and earned every beating he took

That always struck me as odd. How do you not know when the guts were pulled out of the gloves?
I mean it would be like winter mitts compared to drivers gloves although they can be one in the same up here

One can at least entertain the idea that Margarito never knew but Capetillo saying he didn't know sure isn't evidence lol. After all he knows where his supper hangs. Most fighters kind of zone out during the wrap either by staring at nothing really or simply tune it out because its been done so many times before.

I've never changed my mind regardless and stick to what I said in this thread and all those that preceded it on the same topic If they attempted to cheat against grandpa Mosley then common sense would dictate that he did against an undefeated prime Cotto and quite possibly over the course of his entire career. One does not need a degree in deductive reasoning to sort that one out.

The only difference between Capetillo/Margarito and Lewis/Resto is the punishment. Resto never fought again and spent close to 3 years in jail ending up penniless with Lewis doing a year and a half or so on a 6 year sentence and was effectively banned for life from sitting in a corner.

Capetillo got a swat and Margarito added 6 months on to his normal 6 month break and slid in early for a fight in Texas and made over a million dollars.

Its freakin surreal world.

I'm not trying to talk down to anyone but again, one would have to be naive, myopic or both to actually believe that an old Shane was the first. It was the first attempt that failed.