On Saturday, Jan. 24 in Los Angeles,
Antonio Margarito makes his first defense of the WBA welterweight title he took from
Miguel Cotto last July in a Fight of the Year candidate. The performance elevated Margarito to superstar status and he's not wasting any time cashing in -- taking on former champ
Shane Mosley in boxing's first big event of 2009. Not only does this promise to be an excellent fight with lots of toe-to-toe action but - perhaps due to the difficult economy - the bout will be shown on HBO rather than pay-per-view.
Fight-by-Fight Career Records
Antonio Margarito
Shane Mosley
Oddsmakers favor Margarito, 30, over the 37-year-old Mosley (-500/+300). Who do you think will win? Margarito or Mosley? Vote in our poll.
Comments
Margarito is using synthetic steroids and other performance enhancing substances. Cotto’s team should look into it immediately, “Fred Flinstone Headed Margarito is on the juice, if he wasnt Cotto would have knocked him out in the third round. Margarito you are illegal homey and real boxing enthusiasts like myself know it. Cotto hits like two mac trucks and Margarito was walking through those blows, totaL BS…. Miguel, keep your head up dog, you got cheated!!!!!!!!
Mosley can win this if he can run like hell all night. However one good bodyshot and Mosely will be screaming for his wife to come get him. The real fight is a rematch with Cotto. I think their should be daily blood tests set up when a contract is signed and a set training period that a standard and universally understood timeline for fight training and preparation. Then we could catch Juicers like Margarito in the act and suspend their licenses.
lito you are on crack man, you the one that should be tested, o maybe brain scaned,, margarito’s fight style has always been wreckless, and he trains like crazy ALL the time,he puts pressure at the other fighters like no one, ask cintron and lujan, evn williams was about to be knocked out in their fight, besides margarito was tested postfight, and nothing was found, stop the whining and praise the tornado work rate. beware mosley the tornado its coming!!!!!!
P.S. lito , I bet you 100 bucks in the rematch cotto- margo via pay pal or however you choose, margo will rip cotto in less rounds this time
All the cotto fans are butt hurt that margarito ruined cotto’s career and image. Cotto fell apart in what was supposed to be his night so the Puerto rican news started a rumor that Margarito took steroids to TRY and preserve cotto’s image and disrespect Margarito and his big win over cotto.
THIS IS FOR ALL MY FELLOW PUERTO RICANS, I’M PUERTO RICAN MYSELF AND I A’M ASHAME OF ALL THOSE CRY BABY’S FROM THE ISLAND AND ALSO THE MAINLAND, THAT ARE SORE LOSERS, COTTO GOT BEAT-UP BY A BETTER FIGHTER, AND THERE IS NOTHING DIFFERENT COTTO WILL DO IN THE 2ND FIGHT EXCEPT GET HIS BUTT BEAT-UP AGAIN, SO STOP CRYING SO MUCH, CRY-BABY’S
Margarito is a cheater. If I am right that substance they discovered in Margarito’s boxing gloves is called “Plaster Of Paris”. It is a powdery substance you can buy from hardware stores (also known as escayola powder). It is dry white powder and when it gets wet and dried will harden like brick. They use this in molding mannequins and statues (or tiny ornaments). Ever got hit by a piece of brick?