LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Antonio Margarito is scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday to repair a fractured right eye socket after taking a severe pounding during his lop-sided defeat by Manny Pacquiao in Dallas at the weekend.
Mexican Margarito, who lost the WBC super welterweight title fight to Filipino Pacquiao by an unanimous points decision, will have the procedure at Dallas Methodist Hospital, organizers said.
“Margarito has a fractured right orbital bone,” Lee Samuels, spokesman for fight promoter Bob Arum, told Reuters on Monday. “He was banged up pretty bad.
“After the fight was over, he had some stitchwork done in the locker room. They put six stitches in his right cheek and three through his right eyebrow.”
Despite holding a significant weight, height and reach advantage, Margarito was outclassed by a much faster Pacquiao over 12 rounds at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday.
The Filipino was a staggering 17 pounds lighter when he stepped into the ring but he pummeled the Mexican’s head virtually at will, leaving his opponent with a puffed left eye and a cut under a badly swollen right eye.
Pacquiao’s experienced trainer Freddie Roach was stunned Margarito did not quit before the end of the 12-round bout.
