Breaking down Margarito's " Plaster Myth "

[C.J.Rock]

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 didn't know about it.

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

Not to mention if it's discovered after he seriously injures somebody he could be sued out of existence.

There's no way a professional trainer in the corner for hundreds of pro fights turns up for his nth world title fight without enough gauze to make the knuckle pads but just enough to do the rest of the wraps and just happens to have some old bloody shitty stuff from a previous fight that he's kept in his bag. Along with some plaster of paris powder.

There was NEVER any plaster of paris powder involved or the CSAC would have indicted Capetillo & Margarito. The only talk of Plaster of paris & BLOCKS were invented by that lying POC Nazim Richardson. The blocks he "saw" vanished I guess

[Mr140]

What was the official ruling on what it was then if not plaster was it just a used rap then. I mean did they find out what it was or no did the commission actual say it was plaster. Also if it was missing the key ingredient to make it plaster then what would it be nothing just wondering.

[El Kabong]

So Margarito and his trainer got punished for what then?

[Fenster]

It was a used pad.

Capetillo testified at the hearing that he prepared Margarito’s knuckle pads in the dressing room at the Staples Center and put them on top of the contents in his training bag. Then, when it was time to wrap, he pulled the wrong knuckle pads out of his bag by mistake. He further testified that the confiscated pads had most likely been used by another boxer while hitting the heavy bag in the gym.

“They just throw their things in my bag,” Capetillo told the commission.

The following colloquy exemplifies his testimony:

Q: Is this the kind of pad you usually use in a championship fight?

Capetillo: No, sir.

Q: Have you ever used a pad like that in a professional boxing fight?

Capetillo: No, sir.

Q: So is it your testimony that, when you wrapped Mr. Margarito’s hands, you reached into your training bag and grabbed the wrong pad?

Capetillo: That is correct . . . I put my hand in my bag to pull out, they are like little pads. And by mistake, that I had those in my bag, I put them on and I wrapped them on without realizing that it had been a big mistake.

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

SecondsOut Boxing News - Thomas Hauser - Antonio Margarito and the Handwrap Issue

[IamInuit]

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

And I got swamp land for sale in Yukon.

[Fenster]

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

And I got swamp land for sale in Yukon.

But no evidence that Margarito ever fought with loaded gloves.

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. ()

[El Kabong]

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

And I got swamp land for sale in Yukon.

But no evidence that Margarito ever fought with loaded gloves.

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. ()

The photographic evidence is pretty damning.....wraps don't look the way his did after the Cotto fight normally.

Also if it "wasn't the wraps" why couldn't Margarito ever repeat his previous successes? He couldn't beat Mosley, he got hammered vs Pacquiao, and Cotto walloped him in the rematch....this leads me to believe he did not have that extra little something (loaded wraps, and possibly drugs since his punch output was so high in his wins and dropped off big time in his losses) to get him over the top in those fights.

[IamInuit]

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

And I got swamp land for sale in Yukon.

But no evidence that Margarito ever fought with loaded gloves.

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. ()

Hahahahaha. Nice try Johnny but you forgot that the glove was once soaked in blood, was made of leather and there was a latex glove underneath.

[TitoFan]

There was no direct evidence that Margarito knew about the inserts inside the knuckle pads; only inference. Antonio denied any knowledge of the inserts, and Capetillo testified, “I commit a big mistake and I acknowledge it. I don’t want that this young man have any problem because he is not at fault. He didn’t realize what I had put on.”

And I got swamp land for sale in Yukon.

And there's a conga line of frustrated Margarito fans waiting to buy some.