Antonio Margarito as one of the Champ's Short List

Antonio Margarito, the former welterweight champion whose career was tarnished by a glove-loading scandal early last year, has been added to the list of possible Manny Pacquiao opponents late this year.

Top Rank chief Bob Arum yesterday signified his intention to pit Margarito against the Filipino icon if the pound-for-pound champion fails to strike a deal with the winner of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley fight on May 1 in Las Vegas.

Top Rank filed an application in Texas to put Margarito on the undercard of Pacquiao’s victory over Joshua Clottey in Cowboys Stadium last month, but Arum said he ran out of time to work its approval, according to an AP report.


“I don’t think he has lost any fans,” Arum said of Margarito. “I’ve been trained at the best law school in the country and one of the principles I’ve learned is you don’t deprive a man of his livelihood without a shred of evidence. That is just wrong, and that is something I’ll fight against as long as I’m able.”

Margarito is banned from boxing in the US after he was allegedly caught loading his gloves with plaster in a fight against Mosley in Los Angeles in January last year.

But in a press conference Tuesday to promote his May 8 fight with Roberto Garcia in Mexico, Margarito, who packs a 37-6 record with 27 knockouts, defiantly claimed both innocence and ignorance of the charges.

He repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about any irregular gauze pads inserted into his hand wraps and his camp has debated the very illegality of the substances. When Mosley’s trainer objected to the wraps, officials discovered the pads, which apparently were loaded with a substance resembling plaster.

Margarito’s license subsequently was revoked for at least one year by the California State Athletic Commission, preventing him from fighting anywhere in the US.

Source: Philstar.com


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