Cheato Bandito: Antonio Margarito knew guns were illegally loaded -- Examiner

By Michael Marley, Examiner.com

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of the Antonio Margarito saga.

It plays like a bad telenovela.

Margarito is being shoved by Grandpa Bob Arum down our throats like that awful tasting Castor Oil we had take when were kids suffering from a cold or the flu.

There's been no public outcry for Pacman-Margocheato that I've noticed.

If Margarito had “warrior-like pride” would he have knowingly gone along with ex-trainer Javier Capetillo loaded handwraps scheme for the Shane Mosley fight?

We'll never know if Margarito and Capetillo, who the crafty Arum threw under the bus immediately when the boxing police showed up and caught the Mexican fighter plaster handed, schemed to defraud and brutalize Miguel Cotto when they rumbled in Las Vegas.

We'll never know if they did it in other fights on other nights but the suspicion lingers on like the smell of rotten eggs.

But I do know that Cotto will go to his grave thinking the Tijuana Tornado cheated him just like he and Capetillo attempted to do to Mosley in Los Angeles.

Can you blame Cotto for his strong suspicions? Margarito was no novice, no four round prelim kid, he was a veteran of 50 pro bouts the night of the Mosley fight.

Pacquiao said it and colleagues such as Ricky Hatton and Oscar de la Hoya agreed that Margocheato knew what was in his handwraps just like any experienced fighter would know.

Arum, who could sell swamp land during a tsunami, wants us to think that Capetillo acted alone and that Tone Loc was in the dark about the nefarious and illegal conduct.

I guess, using Bob's explainer, that Capetillo planned to surprise Margarito after they won, maybe just before the fighter paid his trainer's fee, with a big guess what, that Capetillo was going to reveal the secret ingredients of their success to the boxer then.

Yeah, that's the ticket, Capetillo was planning to reveal later ask his boxer for a cash bonus.

Really, heaping all the blame on Capetillo appears to be a scheme and is highly insulting to Margarito when you think it through.

No, Margarito did not know, could not have known. He's just the fighter, a dummy and a complete tool for his trainer.

What a bunch of hooey, Capetillo worked for Margarito and not the other way around.

Sorry, Bob, I am all for Margarito getting a license and complete clearance to fight from the California commission next week.

He did his time and he did not try to sneak in a fight in Mexico or elsewhere.

Now let the man make a living.

But all Arum will see here as to the “Capetillo acted alone” tale here is a “no sale” sign.

Margarito should be allowed to ply his trade but he should not be getting rewarded so soon with the big payday from the Pacman bout.

But, hey, he's Bob's Bobo so that's why Arum disregards public opinion and shoves him in there. He also gets the disgraced Maragrito for an old Chevy, a few salted peanuts and a few measly pesos.

Margarito appeals to Arm's inner cheapness.

But don't tell me, don't even try to sell me, that Capetillo was the lone cheater in that dressing room, that he acted alone like the Warren Commission said JFK killer Lee Harvey Oswald did.

California chose the time that they felt fit the crime.

The fighter stayed inactive. So now let him work again.

But I know that Margarito did know what went into his handwraps because a veteran carpenter knows and inspects his tools.

Personally, I had my hands wrapped for about 15 Golden Gloves and other amateur bouts and as many intercollegiate fights for the University of Nevada, Reno.

I had to quit when the referees kept stepping on my hands, sure, but I always knew what was in my handwraps and I studiously watched how they were wrapped.

What was Margarito doing that night in LA when the wrapping took place, using his other hand to check his Twitter page?

Come off it.

Or, to mix metaphors as is my wont, that Mosley bout, well that wasn't Margarito's first rodeo.

(mlcmarley@aol.com)

Source: examiner.com