Trainer Javier Capetillo also suspended for year Commission still testing 'plaster-like substance'. Antonio Margarito, left, takes a blow from Shane Mosley. Photograph: Mark J. Topics Boxing news. He and Davis were virtually on the same page. Taffet concedes that the lingering odor from the loaded glove attempt will be in fight fans' minds.
Certainly, no one at HBO is blind to the seriousness of the offense or the potential for carnage that can ensue when one fighter gains an illegal advantage. HBO showed the superior documentary "Assault in the Ring," which chronicled the Resto-Collins saga, informing or reminding fight fans how the Tennessee-based prospect Collins was pummeled by Resto, went into a depression and lost his life in a car crash. Resto, a Bronx resident, was fighting on that night with virtually bare knuckles and also admitted that tape on his hands was soaked in plaster of Paris.
Arum argued passionately on the L. On the dais at Chelsea Piers, Margarito didn't have the look of a man hiding a soul-shredding secret in his heart. He was quick with a grin, even when a fan in attendance yelled, "With a cast! Short of hooking him up to a polygraph -- maybe we could pitch this as an ESPN special?
So the debate will likely linger, like the cloud over Margarito's head, fair or not. We can traffic in speculation but our inferences cannot substitute for cold, hard proof. If evidence were to surface that Margarito willfully and knowingly cheated for the Mosley fight or before, we should re-examine proper punishment for him. But until then, maybe it is best if we surrender to the knowledge that boxing is the fight business, as Pacquiao himself has.
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When Cotto heard what had been discovered by Richardson, he accused Margarito of fighting with loaded gloves. Collins was an up-and-coming fighter who hoped the bout would propel him towards the upper reaches of the middleweight boxing division.
Instead, Collins was battered and suffered brutal facial injuries. Resto's trainer Panama Lewis had cut out the padding in his fighter's gloves in an effort to give Resto the edge. The fight was ruled a round no decision. Resto and Lewis were later convicted on charges of assault, conspiracy and possession of a deadly weapon, according to EastSide Boxing.
Resto and Lewis went to prison and were banned from boxing for life. Collins' boxing career ended, and he was killed in a car accident less than a year later. After losing to Evander Holyfield in their first fight, Mike Tyson was desperate prior to their second fight in Tyson took desperation to a new level when he bit Holyfield's ear, taking off a piece of his flesh.
The sickening event took place in the third round of the fight. Tyson was being hit hard by Holyfield and had also been head-butted.
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