Is Showtime pulling the rug from under HBO in 2012? Antonio Margarito wants to fight again, but will he be able to? Does Robert Guerrero need an intervention to be brought back down to reality? Check out all this and more on this week’s “From Pillar to Post”!
Margarito Should Face Imposed Retirement
I think everybody knew coming into Cotto-Margarito II this weekend that Margarito’s eye was not only going to be a target for Cotto, but also for the incompetent and greedy officials of the NYSAC, who allowed the fight to happen despite Margarito having the equivalent of a fake eye. Well, the end came in the 9th round with Margarito’s eye totally shut, which should also fittingly shut the door on his legacy of dishonesty and malice, but Margarito seems intent on fighting. Although America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, it’s looking unlikely that a scumbag criminal like Googly Moogly Margarito will ever fight here again due to the unlikeliness that the three major athletic commissions may not sanction him at all.
California has yet to reinstate his license after the illegal wraps were found, Nevada respected the decision of California, and while New York may have let this fight happen, they aren’t going to take another chance with him again. His time as an upper-echelon fighter has ended as he has gone 1-3 in his last four. He shows no punching power without his loaded hand wraps and with a horrifically damaged eye, coupled with never learning defensive fundamentals, who in their right minds would license such a liability?
I’m sure he’ll fight in Tijuana, Mexico City, and the sort, but just because he can doesn’t mean he should. As you guys can probably tell, I don’t like Margarito at all and I firmly believe he should be in prison making sweatshirts as opposed to in a boxing ring making millions of dollars, but I don’t want him to go blind. If this is the end of Margarito, then good riddance and I hope he finds solace in retirement, but let’s hope that boxing never has to see him again.
