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He's Playing It Safer
The topic is the headline on an article in the sports section of today's LA Times. The story is about boxer Antonio Margarito, fights Shane Mosley
Saturday at Staples Center for the World boxing Association's welterweight title.
Bear in mind, this is an article in the sports section. I will share some of the content:
In Tijuana, where Margarito lives, no one is safe at home. The lawless city is on the front lines of a drug war that has killed nearly 450 people in
the last four months, nearly four times the number of combat deaths in Iraq and Afganistan combined over that span. And the anarchy shows no signs of
slowing.
Margarito's wife says, "You always knew bad things happened in Tijuana. But just in the last couple of years, things got worse."
Margarito, born in Torrance, but raised in Tijuana, met his wife in Tijuana.
Sometime in the spring, they will move to a gated community in Southern San Diego County. They are looking for homes that are within sight of Mexico.
Of course, the purse Margarito earns on Saturday night just might have something to do with the move-$2.3 million.
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show mosley the mat, Tony!!!!
viva Tijuana.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
The topic is the headline on an article in the sports section of today's LA Times. The story is about boxer Antonio Margarito, fights Shane Mosley
Saturday at Staples Center for the World boxing Association's welterweight title.
Bear in mind, this is an article in the sports section. I will share some of the content:
In Tijuana, where Margarito lives, no one is safe at home. The lawless city is on the front lines of a drug war that has killed nearly 450 people in
the last four months, nearly four times the number of combat deaths in Iraq and Afganistan combined over that span. And the anarchy shows no signs of
slowing.
Margarito's wife says, "You always knew bad things happened in Tijuana. But just in the last couple of years, things got worse."
Margarito, born in Torrance, but raised in Tijuana, met his wife in Tijuana.
Sometime in the spring, they will move to a gated community in Southern San Diego County. They are looking for homes that are within sight of Mexico.
Of course, the purse Margarito earns on Saturday night just might have something to do with the move-$2.3 million. |
His brother was shot dead in TJ the night before his last big fight. He decided to fight the next day and he won. Sugar Shane is tough though.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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what time is the fight on,, will it be on TV
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7pm PST HBO.
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thanks ,, got it,, I think it will be a great fight
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Warning. It's on at 10pm Eastern. Can't imagine they would tape delay it for the West, but who knows?
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For those that don't know Antonio Margarito lost to Shane Mosley 9th round. Paper said he just never got into it. Sometimes that happens.
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Wow! That 37 year old can still fight! 
Interesting tidbit about the "plaster of paris" type substance.
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Mosley dominated the entire fight...he can still hit
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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The Tijuana tornado became a zephyr....
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He took his beating like a man though, unlike Oscar de la Joya's recent disgrace when his trainer threw in the towel early.
Even though he lost- he still gets his $2.3 Million paycheck to move from TJ to San Diego though---right?
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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Corecto, Senor.
[Edited on 1-25-2009 by Bajahowodd]
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Whaa?
| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
He took his beating like a man though, unlike Oscar de la Joya's recent disgrace when his trainer threw in the towel early.
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Watched both fights and didn't see it that way at all. Oscar's corner made the right decision. Margarito's corner should have
never let him come out and the ref was way late in stopping the fight.
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Former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito had his license suspended yesterday by the California State Athletic Commission while it
investigates a plaster-like substance found under the boxer's hand wraps before his loss last weekend to Shane Mosley. The commission also suspended
the license of Margarito's trainer Javier Capetillo and asked both to appear at a hearing Feb. 10.
The substance was bagged as evidence before the bout Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles and was being analyzed by the California Department of
Justice, the commission said. It did not say how long the investigation would last.
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Margarito's lawyer (of course) said he will be exonerated. Looks like there was some sort of tip involved. Before the fight, Mosley's people
complained that the taping on Margaritos hands was too bulky and demanded it be removed for inspection. Maybe he should have put a brick in there.
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Looks like Tony may be living in US but just not fighting there. One of the inspectors is Che Guevara 
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Antonio Margarito's license removed for a year
Fighter and trainer are held responsible for illegal hand wraps before last month's fight against Shane Mosley.
By Lance Pugmire
5:21 PM PST, February 10, 2009
The California State Athletic Commission today voted unanimously to revoke former world welterweight boxing champion Antonio Margarito's license, and
that of his trainer, for one year for having plaster-like substances on his hand wraps before his title fight against Shane Mosley.
Margarito said that he did nothing more than hold up his fists for his trainer to wrap before the fight, but his argument failed to move the
commissioners.
"When you're the top dog, you bear some responsibility for your team," commissioner Dr. Christopher Giza said to Margarito. "Mr. Margarito felt he did
not bear some responsibility for this, and the consequences could've been career-ending."
State inspectors testified that they confiscated two gauze pads that were "firm" and "smeared with a substance" before Margarito made the first
defense of his welterweight title against Mosley on Jan. 24 at Staples Center. Mosley won the fight by ninth-round technical knockout.
The pads, shown in photos to be caked with a white grout-like substance still under analysis by a state lab, were positioned to be inserted atop the
knuckles of both of Margarito's fists, a fact that his trainer, Javier Capetillo, admitted could have injured Mosley.
"Automatically," he said. "It's hard. It's going to hurt."
Capetillo stunned a large audience attending the hearing in Van Nuys by acknowledging he had mistakenly placed one pad inside Margarito's right hand
wraps and was readying to put another in the fighter's left glove before Mosley's trainer, N-zim Richardson, objected.
State inspector Dean Lohuis testified that he immediately declared the pads illegal, and another inspector described the pads as "not hard as a rock,
but firm and hard," and possibly sweat-soaked with a stain of what appeared to be blood. The inspector, Che Guevara, described Capetillo's dressing
room mood while being confronted as "aggressive, upset, agitated."
But later, Capetillo told his attorney that the pads ended up in his gym bag "by mistake," and should have never been used in Margarito's hand wraps.
The trainer explained another fighter from a Montebello gym where he trains boxers must have errantly tossed his used hand wraps into Capetillo's bag
after slugging a punching bag.
"I grabbed the wrong things," Capetillo said through an interpreter as his voice rose repeatedly in a distraught tone. "It was something innocent. I
committed a big mistake. I don't want this young man to have problems. I'm here to cover any responsibility. I have full responsibility. It was not
ill-intended."
But commissioners were highly skeptical of the claim. June Griffith-Collison asked why both of Margarito's hands were to have the illegal knuckle pad
inserts, and another asked the trainer, "Do you know the expression, 'Falling on the sword?' "
Tijuana's Margarito, 30, won't be able to re-apply for his boxing license for one year, a sanction that will keep him from fighting in the U.S. unless
he follows through with his promoter Bob Arum's promise to stage his fights in Mexico. The boxer declined comment after the hearing, but Arum
expressed outrage and said he wouldn't stage another Top Rank boxing card in California for the duration of Margarito's suspension.
Margarito's attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said after the ruling that he would explore filing a lawsuit to appeal the sanction in a state court.
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I thought Che had met his maker.
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