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Miguel Cotto 'Very Angry' Over Top Rank Supporting Antonio Margarito

Posted: Feb 15th 2009 5:42PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: WBO

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Miguel Cotto will box Michael Jennings on Saturday night for the WBO welterweight title, a fight promoted by Top Rank. But Cotto is currently furious with his promoters for the way they've supported Antonio Margarito, the disgraced boxer who was caught trying to insert a hardened pad into his hand wraps before he fought Shane Mosley.

Cotto's only loss is to Margarito, and many boxing observers believe Margarito won that fight because he cheated. But Top Rank is supporting Margarito and saying it will promote him in Mexico while he's banned in the United States.
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Kermit Cintron, Sergio Martinez Stay Undefeated* After Draw

Posted: Feb 15th 2009 3:22PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: HBO

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Kermit Cintron and Sergio Gabriel Martinez fought to a majority draw on Saturday night in a strange fight that most observers believe Martinez should have won. And yet two judges scored the fight a draw, allowing both fighters to say they're still undefeated*.

Yes, it's true, they're not really undefeated. Cintron is 30-2-1 while Martinez is 44-1-2. But Cintron's two losses were both to Antonio Margarito, and Martinez's only loss was also to Margarito. And now that Margarito has been banished from boxing for putting a hard, plaster-like substance into his hand wraps, every single boxer who has lost to Margarito can legitimately claim that their losses should be ruled no contests.
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Alfredo Angulo Is Boxing's Valentine

Posted: Feb 14th 2009 9:20AM by Ray Holloman (author feed)
Filed under: HBO

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If Alfredo Angulo looks like a serious fellow, it's because he is.

Ask him about boxing and he'll talk about things that might bore your accountant and put your trainer to sleep. There's maintaining weight, the importance of discipline, and, in training, living a life that Mother Teresa might find just a tad puritanical.

In the ring, he's no different. He has the guts to fight a bull while wearing red boxing trunks and a rebar-enforced punch that might leave that snorting sap seeing stars.
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Antonio Margarito Banned From Boxing For at Least 1 Year

Posted: Feb 10th 2009 6:30PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: Boxing Gossip, Boxing Rumors

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The California State Athletic Commission has taken swift action against boxer Antonio Margarito, stripping him of his license after he was found to have an illegal substance in his hand wraps before his fight with Shane Mosley last month.

Margarito's trainer, Javier Capetillo, has also had his license revoked. Both can apply to have their licenses reinstated a year from now.
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Freddie Roach: Antonio Margarito Should Be Banned for Life

Posted: Feb 4th 2009 9:50PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: WBA

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The great boxing trainer Freddie Roach made strong comments Wednesday about the controversy surrounding boxer Antonio Margarito, who is accused of attempting to sneak plaster into his hand wraps before he fought Shane Mosley on January 24.
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Margarito's Alleged Plaster Job Calls Reputation Into Question

Posted: Jan 25th 2009 6:30AM by Tom Herrera (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO

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Antonio Margarito may have lost more than the WBA welterweight title Saturday night. Some of the respect he's gained in the boxing world could be gone too.

Margarito, who was pummeled by Shane Mosley in a ninth-round TKO, reportedly had to have his hands rewrapped before the fight due to a complaint by Mosley's trainer, Nazim Richardson.

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Shane Mosley Dominates Antonio Margarito, Wins Welterweight Title

Posted: Jan 24th 2009 11:02PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, HBO

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In a stunning upset, Shane Mosley defeated Antonio Margarito at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, winning the welterweight championship of the world.

Mosley got off to a fast start, dominating the early rounds and frustrating Margarito, who couldn't get anything going. It wasn't until the seventh round that Margarito even resembled the man who beat Miguel Cotto last year. And in the eighth, Mosley absolutely demolished Margarito, flooring him with seconds remaining in the round. Margarito just barely staggered to his feet, and Mosley finished him off in the ninth.
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Shane Mosley Not Lacking for Confidence Against Antonio Margarito

Posted: Jan 24th 2009 1:40PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, HBO

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Saturday night's fight between Antonio Margarito and Shane Mosley is the most highly anticipated bout of the new year. In this video we talk to both Margarito and Mosley about what they're going to bring to the ring. Bernard Hopkins also gives his expert opinion on what the outcome of this live HBO fight will be.

Check out the video after the jump.
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Margarito's Legacy Is Tijuana Tough

Posted: Jan 23rd 2009 9:50PM by Ray Holloman (author feed)
Filed under: WBA, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO

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Here's how Antonio Margarito knows training camp has gone well: His sparring partners won't talk to him and their medical staff are buying stitches from Costco and vacation homes by the dozen.

Margarito is many things. A fighter who brawls like a bulldozer with reverse ripped out of the transmission. The favorite boxer of Mexico, a boxing nation so tough it probably shaves twice in the morning and wears flannel every day. A classically styled tough guy with a smile as crooked as a Louisiana politician, an angular face that's a road map of the hard way to the top, and an iron scowl that suggests he ate a bowl of nails for breakfast and then asked for seconds.
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Through It All, Mosley Clings to Boxing

Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 8:00PM by Ray Holloman (author feed)
Filed under: HBO

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For Shane Mosley, there has always been boxing.

Now 37, he's collected a walk-in closet full of championship belts and enough purses to make a down payment on the Staples Center, and all over a 16-year career has spent more time on HBO than Tony Soprano.

But for Shane Mosley, it's always been the boxing, to the point that the bouts themselves sound like a kid's last day at summer camp rather than the point of the whole mess to start with.
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