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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.

Antonio Margarito knocked out Kermit Cintron in the sixth round tonight in Atlantic City, dominating him throughout the fight and finally finishing him with a brutal body shot.

Tonight's fight was similar to the first fight between the two, in 2005, which Margarito won with a fifth round TKO. Margarito wins the IBF welterweight title and improves to 36-5; Cintron, who beats everyone he fights except Margarito, falls to 27-2.

Throughout the fight, Cintron repeatedly bent over in close quarters, and as a result Margarito's punches landed to the back of Cintron's head. Cintron complained to the referee about those punches, and the ref did warn Margarito, but he never took a point away, and with good reason: Cintron's bent-over style was giving Margarito little choice but to throw punches that would occasionally connect on the back of the head.

Margarito may next fight Miguel Cotto, who fights later tonight on the same card. Among welterweights, Floyd Mayweather is the undisputed champion, but Cotto-Margarito would be a very good fight for the title of the best welterweight after Mayweather.